Maria Liana Vodiță studied law with a focus on civil law at the Freie Universität Berlin. She then worked as a lecturer in the fields of civil and public law and as a research assistant at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), where she completed her doctorate on a topic of international law as a doctoral scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. After that she completed her legal clerkship in the judicial district of the Berlin Court of Appeal, during which time she worked as a lecturer and research assistant at KPMG Law Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft in Berlin.