Marietta Auer

Marietta Auer is a prominent academic and legal scholar affiliated with two major institutions since 2020: Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Director) and Justus Liebig University Giessen (Chair of Private Law, International and Interdisciplinary Foundations of Law). She has maintained dual active roles in research and academia while remaining a practicing member of the bar in New York since 2001.

• Doctor of Juridical Sciences (LMU Munich)
• Doctor of Juridical Sciences (Harvard Law School)
• LLM Degree (Harvard)
• MA in Philosophy and Sociology (LMU Munich)

Her research spans five core areas: Private Law, Sociology of Law, Legal Theory, History of Law, and Philosophy of Law. This multidisciplinary approach manifests in publications like "Zum Erkenntnisziel der Rechtstheorie" (2018), which explores epistemological foundations of legal science, and "Granular Norms and the Concept of Law" (2021), addressing algorithmic regulation challenges.

• 2022 - German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
• 2021 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
• 2019-2020 - Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
• 2017 - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy Prize
• 2015 & 2005 - German Legal Book of the Year

Auer's career combines academic rigor with practical legal experience, having served as a post-doc researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (2002-2013) and previously practicing law at the Munich Court of Appeals (2009-2016).