)from the University of Vienna, and during 1984 and 1985 undertook postgraduate studies in Comparative Constitutional Law for which she was awarded a "Diplôme Supérieur" by Panthéon-Assas University in France.From 1983 to 1986, Kehrer worked as a tutor and assistant professor in the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law within the University of Vienna, and from 1986 to 1988 she worked as a Research Assistant in the Austrian Constitutional Court.