mw. A. Beckers (Junior Researcher)
Bouillonstraat 1-3
Room A1.016
Maastricht
P.O. box 616
NL-6200 Maastricht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)43 3883138
Fax: +31 (0)43 3884907
E-mail: anna.beckers@maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum Vitae
Anna Beckers holds a law degree from Germany. In 2007 she completed her legal studies with the first German Staatsexamen (State Law Examination) after studying law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main and Linköpings Universitet (Sweden). She was awarded a study scholarship granted by the Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst (Protestant Institution for Scholarships financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research).
During her studies she also worked as a student assistant at the Institute for Commercial Law at the University of Frankfurt and as a student lecturer for the lectures “Introduction to the Philosophy and Sociology of Law” and “Civil Law II: Contract Law”.
From 2008 on Anna worked as a Referendarin (legal trainee) at the Landgericht (Regional Court) in Frankfurt. Within this traineeship she was assigned to a judge in civil matters and a public prosecutor (both at the Landgericht Frankfurt), the Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office, Berlin), a commercial law firm (Mannheimer Swartling AB, Frankfurt) and the European Institute of Public Administration (Maastricht). She completed the legal traineeship with the second German Staatsexamen in June 2010.
Beside the legal traineeship Anna also worked as a research assistant for Prof. Dr. Gunther Teubner, Institute for Commercial Law, at the University of Frankfurt.
Anna now works as a junior researcher at the Faculty of Law, starting in June 2010. Her research project focuses on the legal and constitutional quality of rules set by multinational Enterprises, NGOs and other civil actors regarding labour and environmental standards (Codes of Conduct, Compliance Initiatives). Based on the concept of law within postmodern legal theory, e.g. theory of legal pluralism and system theory, Anna aims to prove whether these Codes of Conduct can be defined not only as law, but also as a part of a new transnational societal constitutionalism. It will particularly be analysed how this new form of constitutionalism will influence the structures of the formal legal system.
Languages
German (mother tongue), English, Swedish, French (basic knowledge).
Publications
“Lex Maritima”, in: Gralf-Peter Calliess, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Dan Wielsch, Peer Zumbansen (eds.), Soziologische Jurisprudenz: Festschrift für Gunther Teubner zum 65. Geburtstag, De Gryter, Berlin 2009, p. 811-825 (Co-author: Andreas Maurer).
Expertise
- German Law, particularly Contract Law, Administrative Law and Migration Law
- Legal Philosophy and Legal Theory
- Constitutional Law
- Comparative Law
