Prof. Dr. Claudia Maria Hofmann
Prof. Dr. Claudia Maria Hofmann holds the Chair of Public Law and European Social Law with a Focus on Interdisciplinary Social Law Research at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). During her course of studies in law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and her mandatory legal apprenticeship, she worked, inter alia, at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich and for the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Pretoria (South Africa). She holds two German law degrees (first and second legal state exam) and a doctorate in law (University of Kassel). With completing her habilitation (post-doctoral degree) at the University of Regensburg, Hofmann received the venia legendi for public law, international and European law, social law, sociology of law and comparative law. Before joining the European University Viadrina in 2020, she worked as an interim professor for public law with a focus on social law at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Since 2018, Hofmann has been advising the German Trade Union Federation as a delegate in the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards at the International Labour Conferences of the International Labour Organization. Her research interests focus on questions at the interface between the “law in the books” and the legal reality. In this context, she has, for example, published work on the national influence of international social standards in South Africa, legal responses to social inequality in international, European and German law or questions concerning the guarantee of socio-economic rights for asylum seekers and refugees in Germany.