Princess Therese of Bavaria Prize for Johanna Stark

Our senior research fellow as well as habilitation candidate and adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Dr. Johanna Stark, has been awarded the Princess Therese of Bavaria Prize.

Dr. Johanna Stark studied philosophy, logic, and philosophy of science in Munich and Oxford from 2003 to 2007. Alongside these studies, she began studying law in Munich in 2006 and graduated in 2011. In 2015, she completed her doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) with a multi-award-winning work on international regulatory competition. Stark’s book ‘Law for Sale – A Philosophical Critique of Regulatory Competition’ was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.

From 2007 to 2016, Johanna Stark was a research associate at LMU’s Institute for International Law. Since her second state examination, which she passed in 2017, she has been working as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and conducting research on legal error in German private law at the LMU Faculty of Law. Stark joined the LMU Mentoring excellence program in 2010. Since 2018, she has been a member of the “Future Faculty” at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, which is sponsored by the Law in Context program at HU Berlin.

Stark’s research centers on issues in German and European private law and on German and international law, with a special focus on interfaces with philosophical questions and debates.

This year, the Princess Therese of Bavaria Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting female scientists at LMU, is awarding Princess Therese of Bavaria Prizes to five researchers from the faculties of law, social sciences, and business administration. All of them have made outstanding contributions to their field and their pursuit of excellence serves as an inspiration to young female researchers.  
                                                           
Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850-1925) was herself a scientist, researching anthropological and zoological phenomena on her travels in Europe and America. In addition, she was a strong advocate for the education of women. In 1897, she was the first woman to be awarded an honorary doctorate at LMU.

July 2023