Friederike Augustin

Friederike Augustin is a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of Humboldt University of Berlin since May 2021, working on the research project "Judicial autonomy under authoritarian attack".

• Central and Eastern Europe
• Post-Soviet de facto states
• Democratization and autocratization processes
• Legal systems in authoritarian regimes
• Independence of the judiciary
• Socio-legal studies

She studied East European Studies, Comparative Social Research, and European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Higher School of Economics Moscow, and Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, with semesters abroad in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Her professional experience includes work as a student assistant at the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) in Berlin.