Judith Hahn

Judith Hahn serves as Professor and Chair Holder for Canon Law and Vice-Dean of the Catholic Faculty at Ruhr University Bochum, while also qualifying as a judge at the Ecclesiastical Labour Court. Her academic trajectory includes a Junior Professorship for Canon Law at the same institution (2010-2015) and research assistant roles at the Nell-Breuning Institute (2002-2009) and Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (2006-2010).

Her educational background includes:

• Philosophy and theology studies in Frankfurt am Main and London
• Specialized canon law studies
• Doctorate in Canon Law from the University of Münster (2008)

Professor Hahn's research spans Canon Law, Law and Religion, Law and Culture, and Law and Language with concentrated expertise in:

• Theology of work and church employee representation
• Caritas associations and the Third Way of Churches
• European Community law's welfare sector impact
• Wage equity in church service
• Global-local canon law tensions

Her recent publications reveal a cohesive analytical framework examining ritual-norm generation, ecclesiastical linguistics, and canon law's theoretical foundations. These works systematically bridge legal theory, theology, and cultural anthropology to dissect how sacramental actions, linguistic structures, and ritual practices co-constitute normative orders within religious-legal systems.

Her research program includes Volkswagen Foundation-funded "Opus magnum" support for the "Glocal Laws" project analyzing global Catholic canon law's implementation challenges across diverse cultural and legal contexts.