Michaela Hailbronner is a Professor of German and International Public Law and Comparative Law at the University of Münster. Michaela completed two German law degrees at the University of Freiburg and the Kammergericht of Berlin before doing an LL.M. and a J.S.D. (doctorate) at Yale Law School (LL.M. 2010 and J.S.D. 2013). She is involved in a number of international collaborations and part of the advisory board of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) as well as World Comparative Law (WCL/VRÜ) and in her function as Co-President of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S).
Her analysis of German constitutionalism against a broader comparative background appeared in a paper that won the I.CON Inaugural Best Paper Award 2014 and in her first book Traditions and Transformations: The Rise of German Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2015). Her more recent work has been in the field of comparative constitutional law and human rights, appearing inter alia in the American Journal of Comparative Law and the University of Toronto Law Journal. Her most recent book – The Failures of Others (Cambridge University Press, 2025) – explores arguments from failure in public law and international law by drawing on comparative examples from a range of Global South jurisdictions, including India and South Africa.
