Katrin C. Mueller currently pursues an interdisciplinary PhD project under the working title Mapping Crosslinguistic Legal Transplants in the EU at Joachim Herz Doctoral School of Law. The project is situated at the crossroads of legal theory, comparative law, EU law and legal linguistics. Prior to her PhD studies, Katrin obtained degrees in law and English language and literature from Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, and studied and trained across Germany, the U.K. and Singapore. As a qualified lawyer (Germany), Katrin’s research is informed by practical experience in transnational business and finance law.
Katrin’s research focuses on the relationship of law and language, especially in multilingual environments. In addition, she investigates the construction of legal meaning, theory of comparative law, contract law, and issues of legal personhood. Katrin has presented papers at various conferences in the US, the UK, Croatia, Czechia and Germany.
Von Fehlern und Beschlüssen. Rechtsfolgen fehlerhaften Verwaltungshandelns in der AG, rescriptum 2019, S. 94–101;
A Short Note on Intersectionality and EU Law. The Concept, its Prospects and Potential Pitfalls (mit Ruben J. Dillmann), LegislEUlab der Europäischen Rechtslinguistik 2022 (Dossier), S. 345–355;
Grenzenlose Auslegung. Auslegung des Völkerrechts und sein Einfluss auf die Auslegung nationaler Gesetze(mit Johannes Ipsen und Maren Solmecke), Juristische Ausbildung 2025, S. 856–867;
Criminal Boundaries of Being and Turkey’s Future in Europe: Penalization of Gender and “Immoral” Sexuality under Turkey’s 11th Judicial “Reform” Draft (mit Bedirhan Erdem), EJIL: Talk!, 29.10.2025.