Theresa Reinold is Juniorprofessor of Global and Transnational Cooperation Research at Duisburg-Essen University, Germany. Prior to joining Duisburg-Essen University, Theresa was Assistant Professor of International Relations at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She obtained her PhD from Tübingen University and held visiting scholarships at Yale, Harvard, New York University and the Social Science Research Center in Berlin. Her research focuses on issues at the intersection of International Relations Theory, International Law, and Comparative Regionalism.