Margrit Seckelmann (Curriculum Vitae)

Jan. 2004

University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Ph. D. (Grade: Summa cum laude), Supervisor: Professor Dr. M. Stolleis
Thesis: "Industrialization, Internationalization and Patent Law in the German Reich, 1871 – 1914"

Nov. 99

High Court of Berlin, Germany
Second State Exam (Law)

July 95 -
May 98

University of Berlin (FU), Germany
Master of Arts (History), Supervisors: Professor Dr. R. Hansen and Professor Dr. H. Schulze
Thesis: „The controversy between Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen concerning the competences of the Supreme Court of the State of Weimar (1928 – 1932)"

Summer
95

University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., „English for Legal Studies"

March 91 -
July 95

University of Berlin (FU), Germany
First State Exam in Law (equivalent to J.D.)

Oct. 89 –
March 91

University of Heidelberg, Germany
Intermediate exam (equivalent to B.A.) in History and German Literature

May 89

Humanistisches Gymnasium Bochum, Germany
High School Diploma

since Dec.
02

German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer
Science Manager, Post-Doc-Project

Dec. 99 –
Nov. 02

Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt/Main
Member of the Junior Research Group „Law in the Industrial Revolution"; Tutor: Dr. M. Vec, Supervisor: Professor Dr. M. Stolleis

Nov. 97 –
Nov. 99

Legal Internships (Referendarzeit) in Berlin and Brussels

• Lawyers: Linklaters and Alliance, Berlin Office

• Protestant Churches‘ Office at the European Commission, Brussels

• Civil Court and Prosecution Bar in Berlin

• Berlin Television, Legal Department

Oct. 95 –
Nov. 97

Legal Assistant, Coudert Brothers, Berlin Office

May 93 –
Sept 95

Legal Assistant, Berliner Zeitung

June 89
onwards

Free Lance Journalist, Neue Ruhr Zeitung

Date of Birth:

June 1, 1970

1999 – 2002

Fellowship for Junior Researchers, Max-Planck-Society

1990 – 98

Grant, Lutheran Foundation for Advanced Studies (= Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V., Haus Villigst)

May 1988 – today

Member, "amnesty international"

April 1991 – 
March 1993

Member, Program planning commission for the Summer University of the Lutheran Foundation for Advanced Studies

July – October 1991

Social and legal advisor at the Human Rights Organization "CIMADE", Massy/France

1989 – 91

Co-editor and author of several articles of the students’ journal "HistorikerInnen-Zeitung", Faculty of History, University of Heidelberg