Miss Tran is a Ph.D. candidate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Prof. Dr. Ann-Katrin Kaufhold, Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law. In 2019, she took the First Legal Exam and in 2021, the Second Legal Exam in Bavaria, Germany. During her studies, she gained experiences as a student, and then research assistant of the former President of the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Papier and practical experiences in an international law firm and an inhouse legal department of a company.
Her main task at LMU is the coordination, planning and execution of preparation courses for students undertaking the First Legal Exam in Bavaria at LMU.
Miss Tran is with NUS CALS under a research exchange partnership with Eurac Research, under the LoGov project.
- Administrative Law
- Constitutional Law
- Law and interdisciplinary work
Research Project
Administrative procedure and participatory approaches
Administrative law, more specifically the design of the administrative decision-making-process, is the crucial connecting point between written laws and the public. A written law itself only becomes truly effective once it has been implemented in the context of an administrative procedure. The administrative procedure itself plays a key role in enhancing or limiting public participation, as participatory elements can be implemented during one or more stages in the process of decision-making. Gender issues, exclusion of minorities by race, by abilities or disabilities, by financial equipment pose political, social, and legal problems that need to be addressed, not only by law, but also by implementation of different practical participatory approaches. The main goal of the two-months secondment is to look at the administrative procedure in local governments, the main stages and the possibility to improve participation from a public perspective. Methodically, the approach intended is a broader-systematic one to identify stages in the procedure that offer more or less possibilities to implement participation.
