About us

Lena Foljanty holds the Chair for Globalisation and Legal Pluralism at the University of Vienna’s Law Faculty. Her research interests include globalisation and translation processes in law and the transnational history of legal practices and methods, as well as the legal aftermath of Nazi Germany, and legal gender studies.

Zülâl Muslu is an assistant professor of legal history at Tilburg Law School. She has expertise in global legal history and the history of international laws, with a focus on the late Ottoman Empire. Her research explores semi-colonial and decolonial dynamics, the interplay between law and emotions, and the crisis in institutional trust.

Miloš Vec teaches global and European legal history at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna. He specialises in the history of international law and public law, as well as law during the industrial revolution. His research interests include the history of criminology, modern regulation regimes, and pariah weapons.

Fiammetta Bonfigli is a postdoc researcher at the Chair for Globalisation and Legal Pluralism at Vienna University. She holds degrees in law and legal sociology from the University of Milan and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, and has taught at universities in Brazil. Her research focuses on transitional justice.

Cansu Cinar is a predoctoral fellow at the Chair for Globalisation and Legal Pluralism at Vienna University. She studied law at Goethe University in Frankfurt and worked in German environmental law, international climate protection, and development cooperation. Her dissertation focuses on human immobility in the context of the climate crisis.

Ágoston Frank studied law at the University of Vienna, focusing on European and comparative legal history, and now works as a predoctoral fellow at the university’s Chair for Legal and Constitutional History. His research centres on Hungarian international law in the twentieth century and on ius gentium in the early modern period.

Anastasia Hammerschmied studied law at the University of Vienna and at İstanbul University. After gaining practical experience in asylum law and constitutional law, she is now a predoctoral fellow at the Chair for Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna. Her dissertation focuses on sexual war violence in the 19th century.

Kristina Kaufmann is a trained journalist turned law student who divides her time between her positions as a student assistant at the Chair for Globalisation and Legal Pluralism at the University of Vienna and as a legal assistant at a Viennese law firm.

Doha Nasr is a predoctoral fellow at the Chair for Legal and Constitutional History of the University of Vienna, where she also earned her law degree. She gained experience in international legal practice and with projects on legal history and human rights. Her research focuses on international legal history and colonial legal pluralism.

Sebastian M. Spitra is a postdoc researcher at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History of the University of Vienna and a member of the Young Academy at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. His research focuses on the history of international law, cultural heritage law, and law and (post)colonialism.

Judith Wolfframm is a translator and editor with specialisations in law, history, and culture, and an administrator at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna’s Law Faculty.