Anna-Katharina Klus, LL.M. (Cornell)
CV
| 2014 – 2020 | Studies in Law at Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| 2015 – 2020 | Student Assistant to Professor Jacob Joussen at Chair of Private Law, German and European Labor and Social Law at Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| 2019 – 2020 | Research Assistant at Freshfields, Düsseldorf |
| 2021 – 2022 | General Coordinator of the program “Konzept: Kleingruppe” at the Dean of Students Office |
| January 2023 | Guest Stay at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; scholarships provided by the Berger International Studies Program at Cornell Law School and the EINAUDI Center for International Studies at Cornell University |
| 2022 – 2023 | Master of Laws (LL.M.), Cornell Law School, Ithaca/USA; scholarship provided by Cornell Law School |
| 2022 – 2023 | Teaching Assistant for the Master of Science in Legal Studies program at Cornell Law School, Ithaca/USA |
| 2023 – 2024 | Research Assistant at Hengeler Mueller, Düsseldorf |
| February – March 2024 | Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley at the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley/USA; supported by the Ruhr University Research School, funded by Germany's Excellence Initiative [DFG GSC 98/3] |
| Since 2020 |
Research Assistant to Professor Matteo Fornasier, LL.M. (Yale) at Chair of Private Law, Labour Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| Since March 2025 | Research Assistant at Linklaters, Düsseldorf |
Lectures
| 03. 04. 2024 | Intersectional Discrimination in European and US Employment Discrimination Law – A comparative Approach, Comparative Equality Practicum Seminar, UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley/USA |
| 27. 10. 2023 | Das Recht der Künstlersozialkasse – Die Künstlersozialversicherung und ihre kultur- und sozialpolitische Bedeutung als Instrument der Kunst- und Kulturförderung, University of Applied Sciences Munich, Munich/Germany |
| 01. 06. 2023 | Intersectionality in (International) Labour Law – A Plea for an Intersectional Approach to Gender-Sensitive Aspects, 9th International Seminar on International and Comparative Labour Law - Labour Law in the Mirror: Categories, Values, Interlocutors - Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice/Italy |
| 17. 02. 2023 | Human Rights and South African Progressive Constitutionalism – South Africa's Journey Towards the Recognition of Intersectional Discrimination, Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program: The Future of Public and Private International Law, Washington, D.C./USA |
| 04. 10. 2022 | Intersectional Discrimination in US Employment Discrimination Law in the Wake of Bostock v. Clayton County & Frappied v. Affinity Gaming Black Hawk, LLC – A Critical Review, Cornell Research Colloquium, Cornell Law School, Ithaca/USA |
Publications
- Intersectionality in (International) Labour Law – A Plea for an Intersectional Approach to Gender-Sensitive Aspects, in: Stefano Bellomo, Adalberto Perulli (Hg.), The Major Themes of Contemporary Labour Law, Giappichelli, Turin 2025, 237-249.
- Die Künstlersozialkasse als Instrument der Kunst- und Kulturförderung, in: Johannes Crückeberg, Julius Heinicke, Jan Kalbhenn, Friederike Landau-Donnelly, Katrin Lohbeck, Henning Mohr (Hg.), Handbuch Kulturpolitik, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2024, 947-962.
- Grenzüberschreitende Gesundheitsgefahren und Machtansprüche im Föderalismus am Beispiel der US-amerikanischen Quarantänekompetenz, in: Andrea Kießling (Hg.), Quarantäne, Isolation, Abschottung – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf das Infektionsschutzrecht, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/New York 2023, 187-217.
- Anmerkung zum Urteil des EuGH vom 15.7.2021 – Rs. C-804, C-341/19 (verb. Rs. WABE & MH Müller Handel), EuZA 2022, 73-86.
- Anmerkung zum Urteil des BAG vom 26.11.2020 – 8 AZR 59/20, in: AP SGB IX § 82 Nr. 6 (jointly with Tim Husemann).
- Außerordentliche Kündigung wegen Entwendung von Desinfektionsmittel rechtmäßig, DB 2021, 682.
- Schwerpunktbereichsklausur: Individualarbeitsrecht – Antidiskriminierungs- und Kündigungsrecht, ZJS 2021, 46-51 (jointly with Stephan Schmidt).
Scholarships/Fellowships
- Salzburg Cutler Fellow at the Salzburg Global Seminar
- PR.INT funding via RUB Research School, funded by Germany's Excellence Initiative [DFG GSC 98/3]
memberships
- Salzburg Global Seminar
- Deutscher Juristinnenbund e.V.
- Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung e.V.
- Berkeley Comparative Equality Law Early Career Network
- Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law