Clara Maier is a German political theorist and historian of political thought, now based at Columbia University. During her time at Cambridge University, she worked on "The Politics of German Peculiarity. American, British and German debates on the Sonderweg, 1933-1968". Since then, she has conducted research at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and served as Assistant Professor of History at Humboldt University, Berlin. Her current research is focused on legal and constitutional theory, particularly the history of German and continental European concepts of statehood, law, and democracy in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.