Rate My Professor Anuscheh Farahat

Anuscheh Farahat is the Professor of Public Law in European Context in the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna, where she joined in March 2024. She earned her law degrees from Goethe University Frankfurt and Université Paris X Nanterre, including a Maîtrise en Droit international et européen in 2006, her First State Exam in 2011, a PhD summa cum laude in 2013, and Habilitation in 2020. Previously, from 2019 to 2024, she was Professor of Public Law, Migration Law, and Human Rights Law at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Farahat has held prestigious positions such as Max-Planck-Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle since 2024, leading the JUST MIGRATION project on labour migration regimes, and Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg since 2017. Between 2017 and 2024, she directed an Emmy Noether research group funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft on transnational solidarity conflicts, focusing on the role of constitutional courts.

Her research specializations encompass national, European, and international migration law; human rights law; and constitutional law, with emphasis on conflicts over solidarity, recognition, citizenship, and belonging, as well as the political economy of labour migration and transformative constitutionalism. Among her accolades are membership in the German Young Academy of Sciences since 2022, the Hermann Mosler Prize of the German Society of International Law in 2016 for Progressive Inklusion: Zugehörigkeit und Teilhabe im Migrationsrecht (Springer, 2014), the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, and the Walter Kolb Prize of the City of Frankfurt in 2015. Notable publications include Transnationale Solidaritätskonflikte: Eine vergleichende Analyse verfassungsgerichtlicher Konfliktbearbeitung in der Eurokrise (Mohr Siebeck, 2021) and recent works such as 'The “Hungry Beast” of Migration Control and the Future of the Superdiverse European Migration Society' (European Law Open, 2024). She contributes to editorial boards of European Law Open, Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht und Ausländerpolitik, and others, and serves on the German Immigration Council.