Cara Röhner works on law and societal inequality, anti-discrimination law, labour and social law, and gender justice in a democracy. She studied law and political science in Frankfurt and Bordeaux. Her dissertation, Ungleichheit und Verfassung: Vorschlag für eine relationale Rechtsanalyse (Inequality and Constitution: Proposal for a Relational Analysis of Law) received three awards. She worked as a lawyer for social, labour and corporate law for the German trade union IG Metall and was a member of the supervisory board of an engineering corporation, as well as an honorary labour law judge. She is a member of the board of a housing cooperative. She currently works on housing as a social question and issues of socialisation, and has also published on gender diversity, equal pay, socio-economic discrimination and youth-led climate change litigation. She is an editor of the quarterly law journal Kritische Justiz.
