Dr. Tanja Herklotz, LL.M.
Research fields
Tanja Herklotz is a postdoctoral researcher in the research group “Law and Governance in the Context of Social Inequalities”. Her research focuses on (comparative) constitutional law, social welfare law and socio-legal studies. She has worked comparatively on issues such as law and gender and law and social movements. Her current research project is concerned with how legal systems around the world engage with socio-economic inequality. Along with other researchers in the research group she also works on a project concerning German education law and the law related to child and youth politics.
CV
Since 04/2025: Postdoctoral Researcher in the research group “Law and Governance in the Context of Social Inequalities” at the WZB
04/2024–03/2025: Deputy Professor of Public Law with a Focus on Social and Educational Law, University of Hildesheim
07/2020–03/2024: Coordinator of the DAAD-funded project “Law and Transformation: Opening Conversations between India and Germany” at the Chair of Public Law and Comparative Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
07/2019–03/2024: Coordinator of the DAAD-funded third-party funded project “Legal Cultures in India and Europe” at the Chair of Public Law and Comparative Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
01/2015–01/2021: Doctorate in law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
01/2015–12/2018: Research assistant at the Chair of Public Law and Comparative Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
09/2013–04/2014: Research assistant in the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law with International References, Freie Universität Berlin
Selected Publications
Feminist Legal Activism in India, Hart (forthcoming)
Indian Constitutionalism in the Last Decade, Verfassungsbook (2025) (with Anmol Jain).
“Feminist Constitutional Activism in India”, World Comparative Law 56(1) (2023), 153-174.
"Legal Cultures", in: Grote, R., Lachenmann, F. and Wolfrum, R. (Hg) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (2023).
Mutinies for Equality: Contemporary Developments in Law and Gender in India, Cambridge University Press (2021) (with Siddharth Peter De Souza).
“Religious Courts”, in: Grote, R., Lachenmann, F. and Wolfrum, R. (eds) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (2020).
"Law and Society Studies in Context: Suggestions for a Cross-Country Comparison of Socio-Legal Research and Teaching", German Law Journal 21(7) (2020), 1332-1344.