Luise Papcke

Luise Papcke is a postdoctoral fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU School of Law. She did her doctoral work at Columbia University focusing on the concept of individuality in early modern liberal thought with a dissertation on Individuality and Social Cohesion. Humboldt and Schleiermacher at the Origin of Modern Liberalism. In her current research she examines the relevance of the ideal of liberal individuality also for analyzing the challenges Big Data powered surveillance poses to privacy and individual autonomy. Prior to coming to the U.S., Luise earned a Franco-German dual M.A. in History and Political Theory from Sciences Po Paris and Freie Universität Berlin, and a B.A. in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin. Her work on discrimination in the sphere of voluntary associations has been published in Polity.