Amélie Sutterer-Kipping

Amélie Sutterer-Kipping joined the Hugo Sinzheimer Institute of the Hans Böckler Foundation in February 2022. She is also a lecturer at the European Academy of Labour at the University of Frankfurt am Main, where she teaches European labour and economic law. She teaches European labour and economic law there. Since 2024, she has also headed the labour and social law department at the institute and served as an honorary judge at the Munich Labour Court. She previously studied law at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. After completing her legal clerkship at the Munich Higher Regional Court, she obtained her doctorate on low-income solo self-employed persons as part of a cotutelle programme at Georg August University in Göttingen and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She was awarded the German-French Dissertation Prize for this work.
As a research assistant, she collaborated with Prof. Olaf Deinert on a research project titled 'The Legal Policy of Social and Labour Law', highlighting the adverse effects of non-standard employment, including fixed-term contracts and part-time work. She now focuses her research and lecturing activities on working hours, the fair distribution of care work, pay transparency, and platform work.