Helena Kaim studied political science and law at the University of Münster and at the Université de Bordeaux in France. She graduated in 2024 with a focus on international and European law and French law.

She wrote her academic seminar paper on »Public Interest Environmental Litigation in India and The Role of Judicial Activism«.

Since March 2025, she has been a doctoral student and project collaborator at the Center for Diversity in Law, which is located at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and is headed by Prof. Dr. Emanuel V. Towfigh and Prof. Dr. Iris Canor. As part of her dissertation, she explores the potential of the concept of “vulnerability” within (post-categorical) anti-discrimination law. To this end, she is developing a theoretical vulnerability model that guides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of legal protection under the General Act on Equal Treatment (AGG) and the Berlin State Anti-Discrimination Act (LADG).