Clara Maier
Faculty Associate
Columbia University
Email: [email protected]
Website: Personal / faculty page
Biography
Clara Maier is a German political theorist and historian of political thought, now based at Columbia University. During her time at Cambridge University, she worked on "The Politics of German Peculiarity. American, British and German debates on the Sonderweg, 1933-1968". Since then, she has conducted research at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and served as Assistant Professor of History at Humboldt University, Berlin. Her current research is focused on legal and constitutional theory, particularly the history of German and continental European concepts of statehood, law, and democracy in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Selected publications
- Chapter · 2026 Hannah Arendt on Constituent Power The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power Arendt's rejection of Sieyès on constituent power, and the new account of founding she offered instead.
- Article · 2024 Legal Counterrevolution: Property and Judicial Power in the Weimar Republic Modern Intellectual History Locates the origins of German judicial review in Weimar-era alliances between judges and conservative parties.
- Article · 2019 The Weimar Origins Of The West Germanrechtsstaat, 1919–1969 The Historical Journal How West Germany's Rechtsstaat, built on basic rights and judicial authority, grew out of Weimar constitutional thought.
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