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The final student in our LLM student spotlight series is Christina Mollnitz. Before she came to Duke Law, Christina Mollnitz worked as a law clerk, a legal scholar, and a teacher in Germany. She says she always wanted to study the law and was fascinated by its power and potential. “Law has a great impact on the society and the economy,” she says. “It is able to solve, but also establish social and economic crises, and it give a great picture of the changing morals of a society.” After earning her undergraduate degree in law studies, she went on to get her doctorate, both from the University of Bayreuth in Bavaria. She has worked as a research assistant, completed a legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Bamberg in Bavaria, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher looking into commercial and competition law issues regarding Brexit. Mollnitz chose Duke for her studies after attending a law conference and listening to a former Duke Law professor speak. “Duke Law does not only have an amazing international reputation that attracts the best international lawyers and offers a high quality studying environment, but what makes Duke Law really stand out for me has been the very personal and supportive approach of faculty staff and professors.” Mollnitz will be studying virtually from Germany this spring, but she will move to Durham in the fall. “Not joining Duke in person in spring 2021 was a tough decision but has been related to problems I encountered