W&L Law and the German Law Journal Welcome Prof. Jule Mulder for the Fall Term as the W&L/GLJ Global Teaching Fellow Prof. Mulder will contribute to the law school’s comparative law seminar, which surveys German law and legal culture.

By Law Communications
August 11, 2025

Prof. Jule Mulder will join the W&L Law School community this fall as the W&L/GLJ Global Teaching Fellow. Prof. Mulder will contribute to the law school’s comparative law seminar, which surveys German law and legal culture. The seminar, which will be co-taught by W&L Law Professor Russell Miller, attracts many of the students who serve as Student Editors for the German Law Journal.

“Prof. Mulder is one of the best informed and most exciting scholars working on non-discrimination law from a comparative perspective,” said Prof. Miller. “She is also a long-serving member of the GLJ’s senior leadership team. We are very lucky to have attracted her to W&L. She’ll enrich our students and our community immensely.”

Prof. Mulder is a member of the Faculty at the University of Bristol Law School, where she is the Co-Director of the Center for European and Public Law. The Bristol Law Faculty is one of the United Kingdom’s leading law schools, and its research output regularly ranks among the country’s most impactful. Prof. Mulder embodies the German Law Journal’s transnational understanding of the law. She received her foundational training at the University of Oldenburg (Germany), completed LL.M. work at the University of Bremen (Germany) and the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), and wrote a respected Ph.D. dissertation on “EU non-discrimination law” at the University of Leeds (UK).

Prof. Mulder’s scholarship focuses on European Union Law, comparative public law, and non-discrimination law. She has a particular interest in the way equality and discrimination intersect with questions of sex, gender, and sexual identity. Prof. Mulder’s recent scholarship has engaged with the issue of “equal pay” (Journal of International and Comparative Law (2025)), considered gender equality as it relates to parental leave (European Equality Law Review (2018)), and pursued innovative theoretical work on the question of how the law addresses “vulnerability” (European Law Review (2021) and Journal of International and Comparative Law (2019)).

The German Law Journal, which publishes on a wide range of issues from a transnational perspective, was a pioneer in online and open-access formats.  It is ranked by Google among the top-ten law journals in the world for scholarly impact.  Student editors based at W&L Law take a leading role in managing, editing, and administering this successful global enterprise.  Miller explained that Prof. Mulder’s residency will raise the profile of the Journal at the Law School.  “Prof. Mulder’s connection with the GLJ gives the student editors the chance to meet and work closely with the kind of impressive international scholar that is linked to the GLJ’s community.”