She succeeds Reinhard Zimmermann, who will retire in 2022. She will remain associated with Bucerius Law School as a professor. The internationally renowned legal scholar studied law and political science at the University of Cologne and the Université de Clermont-Ferrand. After completing a doctorate in constitutional law at the University of Trier, she habilitated at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a thesis on legal theory. Prof. Röthel has been teaching and researching at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg since 2004. She declined offers of Professorships at the Universities of Zurich and Bochum.
Röthel was director of the Notarial Law Center for Family Businesses at Bucerius Law School and headed the interdisciplinary program for legal research. Since 2010, she has regularly held visiting professorships at the Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas. In 2014, she was the Lady Beaufort Visiting Fellow at the College Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford.
Her comparative law and legal sociology research focuses on issues of family and inheritance law. Other areas of interest include the concept and meaning of autonomy in law, the relationship between private law and public law, the benefits of interdisciplinarity for jurisprudence and legal didactics. Most recently, she has researched emancipation debates and turned her attention to the dogmas, discourses, and interpretations of bodily self-determination.
Prof. Röthel was awarded the Bucerius Alumni Association's Prize for Outstanding Teaching in 2010 and 2021.
Prof. Michael Grünberger, LL.M. (NYU), President of Bucerius Law School, congratulates her on behalf of the law school: "Without Anne Röthel, the more than twenty-year development of our law school could not have been so successful. Both professionally and personally, she has been a driving force and mentor for the university and countless generations of students and young academics over the past 15 years. With her call to the other side of the Dammtor, the Max Planck Institute is gaining an outstanding scientist. We will continue to have an outstanding and inspiring lecturer on campus because Anne Röthel will remain associated with us as a professor."
Prof. Anne Röthel is looking forward to the new challenge: "It is a great opportunity at the right time."
