Ulrike Müßig, née Seif, is the Chair of the Department of Civil Law, German and European Legal History at the University of Passau. After studying law at the Universities of Würzburg and Cambridge, and as a visitor at the Université Paris II, Panthéon-Assas, she pursued her doctoral dissertation on comparative law, which was funded by the German National Academic Foundation. In 2000 she completed her postdoctoral qualification (habilitation) in European and German Legal History, Civil Law, Comparative Law and Private International Law at the University of Würzburg, which garnered her the Bayerischer Habilitationsförderpreis (1996). Her postdoctoral thesis on comparative legal history won the DFG (German Research Foundation) Heisenberg Prize in 2000, was published as a monograph in 2003, in a second edition in 2009, and in a Spanish translation “El juez legal” (Dykinson) in 2014. In 2013 Ulrike Müßig won the ERC Advanced Grant ReConFort (Reconsidering Constitutional Formation) for her research project on communication dependency of constitutional formation in 18th and 19th century Europe. Since 2014 she has been a corresponding member of the National Academy al-Andalus in the historic–judicial class (Ilustre Sociedad Andaluza de Estudios Histórico-Jurídicos), and was elected into the historical–philosophical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in April 2015.
