Professeur visiteur, Département d'études juridiques européennes
Advocate General, Court of Justice of the European Communities, Luxembourg; Titularprofessorin, University of St. Gallen.
She obtained an LL.M degree at the University of St. Gallen and a doctorate (S.J.D.) at Harvard University.
She was previously assistant to Prof. Dr. iur. Christian Tomuschat, University of Bonn; “Fulbright fellow“ in the United States: LL.M., American University, Washington D.C.; assistant to Prof. Dr. Thomas Buergenthal, American University, Judge at the International Court, former President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; July-Dec. 1983 Consultant at Fulbright & Jaworski, Washington D.C., within the scope of an American-Swiss arbitration proceeding; junior lawyer at the County Court (Landgericht) Heidelberg and at the Federal Constitutional Court (Dept. junior lawyers); beside this activity, working at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law.
She was also fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law, reporter for, amongst others, European Community law; Visiting Professor for European Community law at the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law; Professor at the Universities of Augsburg, Heidelberg, Düsseldorf; alternate arbitrator at the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration; member/Vice-President of the German Advisory Council on Global Change to the Federal Government by the Minister for Education, Sciences, Research and Technology and by the Minister for Environment, Nature Protection and Reactor Safety (1996 – 2003); Professor of Public International Law, International Economic Law and European Law at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland (until 2003); Director of the Institute of European and International Economic Law at the University of St. Gallen (EUR-HSG) (until 2003); alternate Director M.B.L.-HSG (Master of European and International Business Law), University of St. Gallen; since October 2003 Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities, Luxembourg.
She is Member of American Society of International Law; Association des Anciens Auditeurs de l´Académie Internationale de Droit Constitutionnel/Tunis; Associate Member of the International Academy of Constitutional Law/Tunis; President of the International Association of Constitutional Law/IACL; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht/German Society of International Law; Deutscher Juristentag; European Constitutional Law Network (ECLN); German Israelian Lawyers Association; Harvard Law School Association; Member and reporter for the Committee on Diplomatic Protection of Persons and Property of the International Law Association; Universitätsgesellschaft Heidelberg/Heidelberg University Association; Verein der Freunde der Universität Heidelberg e. V./Society of Friends of the University of Heidelberg; Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer/Association of German teachers for Constitutional Law.