About Us

SAFI NETWORKS AND SUPPORTS FEMALE ACADEMICS WHO CONDUCT RESEARCH ON LAW. 

Women and their work are underrepresented and hardly visible in legal academia. There is insufficient networking among them. SAFI (Societas Feminarum Apertia in Iuris Theoria) is an interdisciplinary support network for women in legal academia. The purpose is to network internally, and to organize and cooperate strategically.  In this way, female scholars can have a platform to present and amplify their work, and outstanding research by women can become firmly established in legal academia.

Photo from SAFI's first conference. You can see the founders of SAFI (from left to right): Sabrina Zucca-Soest, Anna Fruhstdorfer, Kristin Albrecht, Claudia Wirsing
SAFI’s founders (left to right) in Berlin 2019: Sabrina Zucca-Soest, Anna Fruhstdorfer, Kristin Y. Albrecht, Claudia Wirsing

What We Want

  • Visibility internally and externally
  • To network and organize among ourselves
  • Regular conferences
  • Internal exchange of professional and academic questions, of expertise and information as well as possibilities for cooperation and partnerships
  • Support and promotion

What we offer

  • Various cooperation opportunities
  • Profiled presentation of female scholars and their research
  • Networking among each other and the possibility to cooperate outside the network
  • Overview of relevant information for women in science

Membership is inclusive, welcoming individuals of all genders. We enthusiastically invite all interested parties to join us.

Spokeswomen

Dr. Kristin Y. Albrecht

University of Salzburg

PostDoc in Legal Philosophy and
Public International Law

SAFI President

Dr. Claudia Wirsing

University of Braunschweig/ University of Hamburg

SAFI President

Dr. Sabrina Zucca-Soest

Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg

SAFI President

Chiara Magni

PhD Candidate
Roma Tre University – Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

Ambassador of SAFI in France

Alix Stéphan

PhD Candidate University College Dublin

Ambassador of SAFI in France

Dr. Giulia Battistoni

University of Verona/Boston University

Ambassador of SAFI in Italy

Dr. Alma Diamond

University of Chicago School of Law

Ambassador of SAFI in the United States

Dr. Ana Cannilla

University of Glasgow, Lecturer in Public Law

Ambassador of SAFI in the UK

WHERE IS SAFI?

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