Tamara Ehs holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Vienna (2005) and has studied Political Science and Law there and at Sciences Po Lille as well as at the European Academy of Legal Theory in Brussels with study visits to the University of Oxford and the LSE. Currently, she is a lecturer and researcher at the Dept of Political Science as well as project collaborator at the Dept of Legal and Constitutional History, University of Vienna. Tamara was a guest lecturer at the Hebrew University Jerusalem (2007) and at the Comenius University Bratislava (2008).
In 2007, she was awarded the Ludo Hartmann-Prize for her post-doctoral thesis Hans Kelsen und politische Bildung im modernen Staat and received the Award by the City of Vienna for Promising Young Scientists in 2008.
Her priorities in teaching and research are: Hans Kelsen, Political Philosophy and Legal Theory, Normative Dimensions of European Integration, Post-national(ist) Statehood, EU-Switzerland