Prof. Dr. Pia Annika Lange, LL.M. (UCT)

Since June 2025
Member of the committee of independent eminent persons of the European Parliament and of the Council on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations

Since August 2024
Holder of the Fellowship “Challenges of the Welfare State Posed by the Ecological Transformation” at DIFIS (German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research)

Since October 2023
Judge at the Constitutional Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

Since December 2022
Director at the Centre of European Law and Politics (ZERP) of the University of Bremen

August 2022
Call to a professorship of public law, in particular administrative law, at the University of Regensburg (declined)

Since April 2022
Professorship of public law, European law, social law, gender and diversity dimensions in law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bremen

December 2021
Habilitation with a thesis on state housing provision, venia legendi for constitutional and administrative law as well as European law by the Faculty of Law of the University of Göttingen

Winter semester 2021/2022
Interim professorship for public law, administrative law and environmental law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bremen

Summer semester 2021
Interim professorship for public law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bremen

Winter semester 2020/2021
Interim professorship for public law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bremen

December 2018 – December 2019
Parenting leave

February – March 2016
Research stay at the University of Vienna, Department of European, International and Comparative Law

since July 2014
Lecturer (Akademische Rätin a. Z.) and habilitation candidate at the University of Göttingen, Institute for Theory of the State and Political Science

since February 2013
Research assistant at the Institute for Theory of the State and Political Science (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Werner Heun †, Georg August University of Göttingen)

25 July 2011
Doctorate in Law at the Faculty of Law of the Georg August University of Göttingen (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Werner Heun †, second examiner: Prof. Dr. Andreas Paulus, former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court) 

March 2008 – July 2010
Research assistant at the Institute for Theory of the State and Political Science (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Werner Heun †, Georg August University of Göttingen)

October 2005 – February 2008
Student and later research assistant of Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers, LL.M. (Chicago), Georg August University of Göttingen

April 2003 – March 2005
Student assistant of Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, Georg August University of Göttingen

Postgraduate Internship

November 2012
Second State Examination in Law, optional subject: constitutional and administrative law 

October 2010
Internship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Bremen with stays e.g. at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, BBG and Partners in Bremen and the Office of the Federal President in Berlin

Education and Studies

March 2017 – February 2018
Master studies (LL.M.) at the University of Cape Town (Master of Constitutional and Administrative Law) 

July 2007 – October 2010
Doctoral Studies at the Georg August University of Göttingen 

July 2007
First State Examination in Law, optional subject: European law

October 2002
Commencement of law studies at the Georg August University of Göttingen 

Juli 2002
Abitur at Gymnasium Neue Oberschule Braunschweig

Memberships
•    Chair of Göttinger Europarechtler e.V. (Association of Göttingen European Law Scholars)
•    Chair of Verein der Freunde und Förderer des ZERP e.V. (Association of ZERP Friends and Sponsors)
•    Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer (Association of Constitutional Law Scholars)
•    Women’s Representatives Collective of the Faculty of Law, University of Bremen
•    Vereinigung für Recht & Gesellschaft (Association for Law and Society)
•    Juristische Gesellschaft Bremen e.V. (Bremen Law Society)
•    Deutscher Hochschulverband (German Association of University Professors and Lecturers)
•    Board of Trustees of the Freiherr vom Stein Institute, Münster
 

Winter semester 2025/26

• Lecture: Verfassungsrecht I: Grundrechte
• Lecture: Verwaltungsprozessrecht
• Lecture: Public International Law (in englischer Sprache)
• Lecture (key qualification): Urteile revisited - Geschlecht und Diversität im Recht

Summer semester 2025

• Seminar: European Constitutional Law (in englischer Sprache)
• Research semester

Winter semester 2024/25

• Research semester

Summer semester 2024

• Lecture: Verfassungsrecht II
• Seminar: 75 Jahre Grundgesetz - Entstehung unserer Verfassung und aktuelle Herausforderungen
• Lecture: European Constitutional Law (in englischer Sprache)

All Publications

(June 2025)

University of Bremen
Faculty of Law
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Room: 30007
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Phone: +49 (0)421 218-66083
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Secretary:
Francisca Vargas López
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Phone: +49 (0) 421 218-66026
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