Professor Susanne Baer
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
5:00 pm
September 18, 2007
McCarthy Tetrault Classroom
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park Cres.
Faculty of Law,
University of Toronto
"Dignity Liberty - Equality. Aspects of a European Constitutional Triangle"
Susanne Baer is a Professor of Public Law and Gender Studies at the Faculty of Law of Humboldt University in Berlin. She previously held visiting appointments in Bielefeld, Erfurt, Linz, at the Summer Course of the European University Institute in Fiesole, and is Visiting Faculty at CEU Budapest.
Her publications in German include a book on Dignity or Equality (Würde oder Gleichheit, Nomos 2005) on comparative antidiscrimination law, which has been awarded a prize by the city of Frankfurt/M., a study on doctrinal resonances of changing images of the state and The citizen in Administrative Law ("Der Bürger" im Verwaltungsrecht, Mohr Siebeck 2006), and several edited volumes on equality politics. She is co-author with Norman Dorsen, Michel Rosenfeld and Andras Sajo of Comparative Constitutionalism (West 2003).
She has served as Vice-President for Academic and International Affairs at Humboldt University and as Director of the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (www.gender.hu-berlin.de); since 2003, she is the Director of the GenderCompetenceCentre, advising the German Federal Government (www.genderkompetenz.info). She is also member of expert groups for the European Commission, currently on equality in research, and is currently working on socio-cultural legal studies, comparative constitutionalism, and law against discrimination in the 21st century.
