Anuscheh Farahat joined the University of Vienna in March 2024 as a Professor of Public Law in European Context. Previously, she was a Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights Law at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Between 2017 and 2024 she headed an Emmy-Noether research group on the role of constitutional courts in transnational solidarity conflicts in Europe, which was funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Since 2023, she has been a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle with her project “JUST MIGRATION: Labour migration regimes in transnationalised contexts”.

Anuscheh studied law in Frankfurt, Paris and Berkeley. She received her PhD in law from the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her book on migrant citizenship and transnational migration in Germany (Progressive Inklusion: Zugehörigkeit und Teilhabe im Migrationsrecht, Springer Verlag, 2014) received multiple awards, including the Herman-Mosler-Prize 2015 of the German Society of International Law. In 2021 she published a monograph on transnational solidarity conflicts and the role of constitutional courts in comparative perspective with Mohr Siebeck (Transnationale Solidaritätskonflikte: Eine vergleichende Analyse verfassungsgerichtlicher Konfliktbearbeitung in der Eurokrise). Anuscheh Farahat publishes widely on issues of European and national constitutional law, national, European and international migration and citizenship law, human rights law and comparative constitutionalism with a specific focus on solidarity conflicts.