Kathrin Rau studied law at the University of Cologne from 2018 to 2024 and successfully completed her studies with the First State Examination in Law at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne. In 2021, she completed an exchange semester at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. As part of her specialisation in public international and European law, she engaged in in-depth study of issues relating to international human rights protection and successfully participated in the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition. She subsequently completed a double master’s degree (LL.M.) in Comparative Studies between German, European and Chinese Law at Humboldt University of Berlin and Tongji University Shanghai.

Alongside her studies, she gained diverse practical experience, inter alia, at the German Bundestag, the European Parliament in Brussels, the Division for European Cooperation and Education in the EU at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, A&O Shearman in Frankfurt, and the Shanghai office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.

She is an alumna of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Since September 2025, Kathrin Rau has been working as a research assistant at the Academy for European Human Rights Protection and is pursuing a doctoral degree on China’s influence on the international human rights system.

Contact

kathrin.rau@uni-koeln.de