Laura Münkler was born into a family of scholars in Friedberg, Hesse.
In 2004 she passed the Abitur before taking up legal studies at Humboldt University of Berlin.
In 2012 she was admitted to the bar and briefly joined a law firm before she became a research fellow with Jens Kersten [de] at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
[4][5] Her habilitation thesis deals with the relationship between experts, politics, and the law.
Münkler argues the supremacy of law and politics over what the experts say must prevail because in the end it is a political matter how to deal with an expert's opinion of any other faculty.