Hannah Ruschemeier

Hannah Ruschemeier is a Full Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Osnabrück. Previously, she was a Junior Professor of Public Law, Data Protection Law, and Law of the Digital Transformation (tenure-track W3) at the Faculty of Law, FernUniversität in Hagen. She studied law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her doctoral thesis developed constitutional standards for assessing cumulative burdens. After her legal clerkship and second state examination, she served as Principal Investigator (Legal Studies) on the ELSI team (ethical, legal, and social issues of digitalization) at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum.

Hannah Ruschemeier is a member of the Junge Akademie, a board member of RAILS e.V (Robotics and AI Law Society), member of the Art. 21 Academic Advisory Board, editor of the German journal KIR and co-editor of the journal Legal Tech. She continues to be associated with CAIS NRW as an associate researcher.

Her research connects core questions of public law with the challenges of digital transformation, focusing on the collective dimensions of rights, privacy, technology-driven inequalities, data power, surveillance, technology regulation, and legal theory.