Claudia E. Haupt joins Northeastern as Associate Professor of Law and Political Science.

Prior to joining Northeastern, Haupt was a Resident Fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, where she continues to be an affiliate fellow, and a Research Fellow with the Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy at Yale Law School. She has also held an appointment as Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School and, prior to that, taught at George Washington University Law School.

Before entering academia, Haupt clerked at the Regional Court of Appeals of Cologne and practiced law at the Cologne office of the law firm of Graf von Westphalen, with a focus in information technology law. She is admitted to practice in Germany and New York.

She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Cologne, a J.S.D. from Columbia Law School, an LL.M. (with highest honors) from George Washington University, and her first law degree from the University of Cologne. 

Haupt has published articles in journals including the Yale Law Journal, Boston College Law Review, George Washington Law Review, and Tulane Law Review, among others. Her book Religion-State Relations in the United States and Germany: The Quest for Neutrality was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.