Claudia E. Haupt

Associate in Law

Office:	Jerome Greene Hall 435 West 116th Street New York N.Y. 10027
Tel:	212-854-7706
Email:	chaupt@law.columbia.edu

Education

• George Washington University, LL.M., with highest honors, 2009
• University of Cologne, Dr. phil. (Political Science), magna cum laude, 2008
• State of North Rhine Westphalia, Second Juridicial State Exam, 2007
• State University of New York at Albany, M.A. (Political Science), 2004
• University of Cologne, First Juridicial State Exam, 2003

Areas of Expertise:

• Constitutional Law
• Comparative Law
• Jurisprudence
• Professional Responsibility & Ethics
• Law & Religion
• Civil Procedure
• Law of the European Union
• International Human Rights

Biography

Claudia E. Haupt comes to Columbia Law School from George Washington University Law School, where she was a Professorial Lecturer in Law and International and Comparative Law Fellow. Claudia received her first law degree from the University of Cologne and an LL.M., with highest honors, from George Washington University. She also holds an M.A. in political science from the State University of New York at Albany and a Ph.D., magna cum laude, in political science from the University of Cologne.

Claudia clerked at the Regional Court of Appeals of Cologne. She then practiced law at the Cologne office of the law firm of Graf von Westphalen, with her practice focus in information technology law, and taught as an adjunct at the University of Cologne. She is admitted to practice in Germany and New York.

Claudia’s primary research interests are in the areas of constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, law & religion, jurisprudence, and the legal profession. She has published articles in journals including the George Washington Law Review, Tulane Law Review, George Washington International Law Review, Florida Journal of International Law, and Boston University International Law Journal, among others. Her book “Religion-State Relations in the United States and Germany: The Quest for Neutrality” was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.

Publications

Book
Religion-State Relations in the United States and Germany: The Quest for Neutrality (Cambridge University Press 2012)

Selected Articles
Transnational Nonestablishment, 80 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 991 (2012)

Mixed Public-Private Speech and the Establishment Clause, 85 TUL. L. REV. 571 (2011)

The Nature and Effects of Constitutional State Objectives: Assessing the German Basic Law’s Animal Protection Clause, 16 ANIMAL L. REV. 213 (2010)

The Scope of Democratic Public Discourse: Defending Democracy, Tolerating Intolerance, and the Problem of Neo-Nazi Demonstrations in Germany, 20 FLA. J. INT’L L. 169 (2008)

Free Exercise of Religion and Animal Protection: A Comparative Perspective on Ritual Slaughter, 39 GEO. WASH. INT’L L. REV. 839 (2007)

Regulating Hate Speech: Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don’t. Lessons Learned from Comparing the German and U.S. Approaches, 23 B.U. INT’L L.J. 299 (2005)