Dana Schmalz is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg/Berlin. Her work sits at the intersection of international law and legal theory, with a focus on refugee law and human rights. Dana holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Frankfurt and an LL.M. in Comparative Legal Thought from Cardozo Law School, New York. Her book “Refugees, Democracy and the Law. Political Rights at the Margins of the State” was published in 2020. Dana Schmalz is a founder and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Völkerrechtsblog and an associate editor at Verfassungsblog. She is an associate editor of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) and belongs to the editors of the journal Kritische Justiz.
