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

By Law Communications
August 30, 2024

Prof. Paulina Starski will join the W&L Law School community this fall as the W&L/GLJ Global Teaching Fellow. Prof. Starski 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. Starski is one of the best informed and most exciting scholars working in Public Law in Germany today,” said Prof. Miller. “We are very lucky to have attracted her to W&L.  She’ll enrich our students and our community immensely.”

Prof. Starski is a member of the Law Faculty at the University of Freiburg.  The Freiburg Law Faculty has one of Germany’s most prominent public law departments and is the home to two former justices of the German Federal Constitutional Court. She is also a Senior Research Affiliate at the world-renowned Max Planck Institute for Public International Law (Heidelberg, Germany). Prof. Starski completed her legal training, including a Ph.D. and her professorial qualification, at the prestigious Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, Germany). She served as a Law Clerk to Justice Hoffmann-Riem at the German Federal Constitutional Court. She has had guest professorships or research fellowships at New York University, the University of Syndey, and the University of Melbourne.

Prof. Starski’s scholarship focuses on public international law, German and comparative constitutional law, and European Union law. Recently, she has played a prominent role as a scholar, commentator, and advisor on the pressing legal issues of the day, such as the role of International Law in the conflicts raging around the world, on the prospects for constitutional law and the rule of law in the face of democratic back-sliding, and the nature and purpose of constitutional or supreme courts in democratic systems.

The German Journal, which publishes on a wide range of issues from a transnational perspective, was a pioneer in online and open-access formats.  Student Editors based at W&L Law School take a leading role in managing, editing, and administering this successful global scholarly platform. Miller explained that Prof. Starski’s residency will raise the profile of the Journal at the Law School.

“Professor Starski’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,” said Prof. Miller.