Research staff

Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy (April 2017) and Sociology (July 2017) from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Subsequently, a Master’s degree in Social Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin, specialising in Comparative Politics (completed in March 2021). Worked as a student assistant at the German Youth Institute in Munich and the Berlin Social Science Centre. 2021 to 2024: Research assistant at the Faculty of Law, Humboldt University of Berlin (Christoph Möllers’s Chair). Since 2025, research assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Regensburg (Prof. Dr Alexander Tischbirek). PhD student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin (supervisors: Silvia von Steinsdorff & Christoph Möllers).

Empirical legal and judicial research, computational social science, natural language processing, social and legal theory

• “Balancing as a Means of Judicial Activism? Analysis of the German Federal Constitutional Court’s Use of Balancing Language”, German Law Journal 26 (3), 2025, pp. 471–492.
• “Exploration and Visualisation of a Legal Knowledge Graph: A Human-Centred Approach”, CIKM ’25: Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2025, pp. 3271–3281, (with Sabine Wehnert, Pramod Khumar Bonta, Huu Huong Giang Nguyen, Ernesto William De Luca).
• Review: “Quantitative Methods in Comparative Law” by Pier Giuseppe Monateri & Mauro Balestrieri, Verfassung und Recht in Übersee / World Comparative Law 58 (2), 2025, pp. 258–260.
• “Classifying proportionality – identification of a legal argument”, Artificial Intelligence & Law 33, 2025, pp. 1051–1078, (with Bent Stohlmann), DOI:
• “Consolidation rather than triumph – A quantitative study of the application of the principle of proportionality in the case law of the Federal Constitutional Court”, DER STAAT 63 (2), 2024, pp. 217–252, (with Bent Stohlmann, Alexander Tischbirek, Luisa Wendel, Leonard Hoeft, Sophie Reule).
• “Information Extraction for German Legal Documents”, Journal of Digitalisation and Law 2024/2, pp. 200–212.
• “TENJI: A Textbook Entity Network and Jurisprudence Interface”, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (Volume 395: Legal Knowledge and Information Systems), 2024, pp. 398–400, (with Sabine Wehnert, Pramod Khumar Bonta, Bent Stohlmann, Ernesto William De Luca).

• Proportionality. An annotated dataset of GFCC decisions, [Data set] Zenodo, 2024, (with Luisa Wendel, Sophie Reule, Bent Stohlmann, Leonard Hoeft, Alexander Tischbirek).
• LLCon Word Count, a web application for searching for words (lemmas) in the Senate case law of the Federal Constitutional Court, 2023.

• “International Law Networks and Asian International Law Scholarship”, SMU-Georgetown Study and Analysis of International Law Scholarship (SAILS) Workshop, Singapore, 2025 (with Hannah Birkenkötter).
• “The Geography of International Law Discourse”, iCourts Lunch Seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2025.
• “Digital Humanities and Legal Documents”, Digital Humanities Colloquium, University of Stuttgart, 2025.
• “The changing concept of interference with fundamental rights – Empirical evidence from the German Federal Constitutional Court”, European Society for Empirical Legal Studies, Toulouse, France, 2025.
• “International Law Networks”, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, 2025 (with Hannah Birkenkötter).
• “Legal corpus studies, proportionality, and the promise of LLMs”, Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, 2025 (with Bent Stohlmann).
• “On computational and corpus linguistic analysis of legal judgements – The Leibniz Linguistic Research into Constitutional Law”, Keynote, Rome, Italy, 2025 (with Bent Stohlmann).
• “Mining Legal Arguments: Proportionality in German Constitutional Court Judgments”, Seminar: Legal History Meets Digital Humanities, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt, 2024.
• “Court Judgements as a Data Type”, Conference on Quantitative Jurisprudence, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, 2024.
• “Natural Language Processing and the Reasoning in Judgements of the Federal Constitutional Court”, Digital History Colloquium, Berlin, 2024.
• “Balancing as a means of judicial activism?”, Second Joint Global Politics of Law & Courts Workshop, Oslo, Norway, 2023.
• “Define one’s own competences”, ECPR General Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 2023.
• “Extraction of string citations in court data”, Workshop on New Approaches for Extracting Heterogeneous Reference Data, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt, 2023 (with Bent Stohlmann).
• “Proportionality as a judicial decision-making technique”, 5th Annual COMPTEXT Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, 2023 (with Bent Stohlmann).
• “Measuring the use of balancing language” (poster presentation), Law and Courts Autumn Immersion, Florence, Italy, 2022.