Conference contributor: Konstanze Plett

Konstanze Plett is a Professor of Law at the University of Bremen.  She had taken both law examinations in Hamburg, where she had also earned her Dr.iur.  Before joining the law faculty, she had been a full-time researcher at the Max Planck Institute for foreign and private international law in Hamburg for two years, and then at the Center for European Law and Politics in Bremen for more than twenty years.  Her approach to law has been a socio-legal one since the early 1980s, studying dispute processing until she could convince the Center’s directors that gender issues deserve closer inspection also in the field of law.  Her search for the contribution of the law to the social construction of gender made her finally aware of the injustices and wrongs experienced by inter* persons.  Since about the year 2000, human rights of inter*s has been her main research interest.  She has given many talks and lectures on the subject, and was heard as a legal expert by parliamentary bodies and the German Ethics Council.  Her many article publications on this issue are (unfortunately) only in German.