🎥 New Brown Bag Lunch episode with Omri Levin: In our latest session, Omri shares insights on his presentation "Gatekeepers: Autocratisation, Populism and the Definition of a Key Term in Legal & Political Debate in Israel”.

Now online 🎓 The full recording of the FAU CHREN Michael Krennerich Memorial Lecture by Prof. Dr. Christina Binder is available. Watch the lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUab...

"Perfect is the enemy of good." In a workshop at FAU CHREN, Prof. Dr. Michael Goodhart shared key elements of academic publishing strategies: publisher selection, precise timing, professional editor dialogue. Learn more: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2026/02/23/w...

Michael Krennerich Memorial Lecture at FAU CHREN 🎓Speaker Prof. Dr. Christina Binder shares key reflections from her lecture on current challenges to human rights. Full lecture recording coming soon.

In this week's contribution to our #HumanRightsFAU series: IDP Researcher & Research Assistant Philipp Bogensperger tells what makes researching human rights at @fau.de unique.

Workshop at FAU CHREN "Engaging with UN Special Procedures": Prof. @grabaranowska.bsky.social shared insights from her work as a UN independent expert and shared pathways for postdocs to connect academic research with UN human rights mechanisms. Read more: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2026/01/21/w...

🎥 New Brown Bag Lunch episode with Dr Kateryna Buriakovska: In our latest Brown Bag Lunch session, Katya shares insights on her presentation "International Criminal Law and Business and Human Rights: Interaction Between Two Fields in Cases of Corporate Complicity in Atrocity Crimes”. #FAU #PostDoc

This week’s voice in our #HumanRightsFAU series: Husam Al-Eryani, M.A. Human Rights student and lawyer. The whole story: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/12/08/h... #HumanRightsDay #FAU #HumanRightsFAU #FAUCHREN #TransformingHumanrights #IDPBHR #ClusterofExcellence #MAHumanRights

📚 Save the date | Book Presentation: Join us for the online presentation of Enforced Disappearances, with co-editor Prof. @grabaranowska.bsky.social and many others. The event is hosted by @hertieschool.bsky.social on 10 February 2026. Register here: www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

In this week's contribution to our #HumanRightsFAU series: PhD & research associate Milena Störmer tells us about what inspired her to research human rights. @fau.de

FAU CHREN Human Rights Clinic visiting Berlin: After submitting the report on the Right to Housing, the Clinic was invited to visit our practice partner @freiheitsrechte.org. Together with the practicing lawyers there, we had a great exchange that went beyond the academic content of our cooperation

🎥 New Brown Bag Lunch episode with Dr @otgontuya.bsky.social In our latest Brown Bag Lunch session, Otgontuya shares insights on her presentation "Ecofeminism: Transforming the HRDD and Corporate Human Rights Responsibility towards Indigenous Women".

Save the Date: Herzliche Einladung zur ersten Michael-Krennerich-Gedächtnisvorlesung am 6.2.26 am FAU CHREN. Die Vorlesung hält Prof. Dr. Christina Binder (UNIBW München) zum Thema: "Menschenrechte in Zeiten der Disruption - eine lokale Perspektive". Infos: www.humanrights.fau.de/events/prof-...

In this week's contribution to our #HumanRightsFAU series: Doctoral Researcher Omri Levin reflects on why human rights matter to him personally. His research at the Chair of Human Rights Law focuses on Autocratisation in Israel. @fau.de

A little late, but no less joyful: our New Year gathering at FAU CHREN ✨ With good food and drinks, engaging conversations, and a few new faces, we kicked off the year together in the best possible way. Wishing everyone a healthy and happy New Year 🥳 Learn more about our work: www.humanrights.fau.eu

🎥 New Brown Bag Lunch episode with PhD candidate Stephanie Regalia In our latest Brown Bag Lunch session, Stephanie shares insights on her presentation "The Nature of Corporate Human Rights Due Dilligences Obligations". #FAU #HumanRightsFAU #HumanRights #PostDoc #Researcher #FAUCHREN

This week’s voice in our #HumanRightsFAU series: M.A. Human Rights student Libele on why human rights matter. The whole story: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/12/08/h... Follow along and stay tuned as we’ll be sharing one contribution each week.

This week’s voice in our #HumanRightsFAU series: Dr Caroline Lichuma (@carollichuma.bsky.social), Postdoctoral Researcher & FAU CHREN member The whole story: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/12/08/h...

FAU CHREN is taking a short winter break ❄️ Looking back on a year of research, exchange, and shared milestones. Thank you everyone & see you in 2026! A full recap of 2025: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/12/19/f... @fau.de @dfg.de @humboldt-foundation.de @nurembergacademy.bsky.social

This week’s voice in our #HumanRightsFAU series: Nishrin Azzely Qowamuna, IDP BHR Doctoral Researcher at @fau.de The whole story: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/12/08/h...

Human Rights Colloquium with Dr. @tengbiao.bsky.social and Polina Kurakina on Transnational Repression and its Impact on the Global Order. A key topic for human rights research and current FAU CHREN projects. Full recap: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/11/02/h...

🎉Let's celebrate Human Rights Day kicking off our #HumanRightsFAU series. Today: Grace Sitati, IDP BHR researcher & Research Assistant at the Chair of African Legal Studies (Prof. Dr. @thokokaime.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social The whole story: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/12/08/h... @fau.de

❄️ Snacks, drinks & music: M.A. Human Rights students and their lecturers came together to celebrate the beginning of the winter season. A good opportunity to unwind after classes, connect and foster exchange. 👉 More information on the M.A. Human Rights: www.humanrights-master.fau.de #FAU #FAUCHREN

🎙️ New podcast episode with Leonel Lisboa about meaningful human rights capacity-building in companies and the risks of empty or formalistic approaches. Recorded by Dr. Tainá Garcia Maia, PostDoc at FAU CHREN. Listen on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple Podcasts. 🔗 www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/12/02/h...

@fau.de students gained first-hand insights into the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. With Prof. Katrin Kinzelbach, they followed the UPR on Honduras, attended an @aclu.org event on US human rights, and met human rights experts. Thanks to ZEIT Stiftung Bucerius and Scholars-at-Risk.

🎥 New Brown Bag Lunch episode: Dr. Julia Stefanello Pires shares insights from her talk on Corporate Accountability in Supply Chains and also reflects on why spaces like the Brown Bag Lunch matter — especially for postdocs who rarely have safe, informal spaces for academic exchange.

💡Save the Date: Workshop on "Corporate Liability for Human Rights Abuses in Global Value Chains" with Giovana Agutoli at FAU CHREN. 🗓️ 4 December 2025, 2:00 pm. 📍 Andreij-Sacharow-Platz 1, 90403 Nürnberg; Seminar Room (2nd floor). More information: www.humanrights.fau.eu/calendar/wor...

💼 Call for Applications: Doctoral Program and Data Management Coordinator for Cluster of Excellence "Transforming Human Rights“ Interested in pursuing a career in research management? ↗️Apply now: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/11/17/s... @fau.de @dfg.de #exc #fau #humanrights #HumanRightsFAU

💼 Call for Applications: Up to 5 Postdoc Positions for Cluster of Excellence „Transforming Human Rights“ ↗️Apply now: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/11/17/s... @fau.de @dfg.de #exc #fau #humanrights #HumanRightsFAU

Our new book, ‘Enforced Disappearances: On Universal Responses to a Worldwide Phenomenon’ is published - and fully open access - with @universitypress.cambridge.org (co-edited with Milica Kolaković-Bojović)

Reflecting on our FAU Human Rights Colloquium with Dr. Afrooz Maghzi: "Lawyering under Authoritarianism: The Iranian Experience." A crucial discussion on how lawyers navigate repression to defend #HumanRights in Iran, offering vital insights for contexts of rising global authoritarianism.

💼 Call for Applications: Postdoc Position for Cluster of Excellence „Transforming Human Rights“. Interested in reflecting on and fascilitatung inter- and transdiscplinary research? ↗️Apply now: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/11/17/s... @fau.de @dfg.de #exc #fau #humanrights #HumanRightsFAU

EU-law is shifting: Yesterday, the Parliament voted for major cuts to due diligence & supply-chain-rules. 🎙️ A perfect time to revisit our podcast episode with Dr Caroline Lichuma about the Omnibus Simplification and what it means for corporate sustainability. www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/04/03/h...

🥪 Our Brown Bag Lunches give early-career researchers the opportunity to present their work, exchange feedback, and connect in an informal atmosphere. Organizers Dr @elinewaerp.bsky.social & Dr @carollichuma.bsky.social share what makes this format special and why it matters for young researchers ▶️

Save the Date and don't miss the upcoming Nuremberg Academy Talk: "War Unbound" by Professor Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social 🗓️ 13 November 2025, 11:00 am 📍Room 619, @nurembergacademy.bsky.social Further information: www.nurembergacademy.org/public-disco...

“If we do not manage to win hearts and minds of young people, we will fail greatly." Former @coe.int Commissioner Dunja Mijatović shared powerful insights with our students at the M.A. Human Rights Opening & Graduation Ceremony. 🌍 Read more: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/10/31/m...

With Dr Caroline Lichuma & Dr Gemma Lligadas Gonzalez, two of our postdocs are now represented on the Scientific Advisory Board of the @voelkerrechtsblog.org 🥳 Their appointments highlight the outstanding expertise and international engagement of our early-career researchers. voelkerrechtsblog.org

Our postdoc Dr. Tainá Garcia Maia co-founded a new Working Group on Socio-Economic Inequalities and Poverty Discrimination together with Stefanía Rainaldi Redon (Queen Mary University of London, Michael Marcondes Smith (Universiteit Antwerpen) and Edward Pérez (UCL) 👏 Further information: seipd.org

Save the date: Roundtable: "Territorios, sostenibilidad y soberanía: desafíos de América Latina en el nuevo orden global" 🗓️03 November 2025, 5:00 pm 📍Findelgasse 7/9, Nuremberg Find all the details here: www.humanrights.fau.eu/calendar/rou...

🎙️Check out our new Human Rights Tracks Podcast episode No. 7 with Dr. Octávio Ferraz, Professor at King's College London and Co-Director of the Transnational Law Institute. In this episode Dr. Ferraz talks about "The Transformative Power of Social Rights" www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/10/22/h...

The MA Human Rights Opening and Graduation Ceremony is in full swing — honoured to hear from Dunja Mijatović on “The Future of Human Rights: Between Backsliding and Renewal.” And celebrating with alumni, students and friends!

Great conversations over coffee with Dunja Mijatović and the FAU CHREN community. See you later at the M.A. Human Rights Opening and Graduation Ceremony! www.humanrights.fau.eu/calendar/gra...

A look back at our book launch "Feminist Judgments: Reimagining the ICC" — with @nurembergacademy.bsky.social & UNSW Australian Human Rights Institute. We had the honor to welcome the editors Prof. Dr. Louise Chappell, Dr. Kcasey McLoughlin and Dr. Suzanne Varall and many other speakers ✨

Don't miss the Memory Studies Association webinar on Memorialization and Enforced Disapperances, 21 October at 17:00 - 18:30 with Prof. Dr. Grażyna Baranowska as convenor @grabaranowska.bsky.social ⬇️

📢 Save the date! We’re excited for the MA Human Rights opening & graduation ceremony @ FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg – featuring keynote speaker Dunja Mijatović on “The Future of Human Rights.” 🗓️ 23 October 2025, 5:00-7:00 pm 📍 FAU CHREN, Andreij-Sacharow-Platz 1, 90403 Nürnberg, Lecture Hall, 4th floor.

📖 Kicking off today: “Feminist Judgments: Reimagining the International Criminal Court” Book Launch & Panel Discussion at FAU CHREN. We’re thrilled to welcome Prof. Dr. Louise Chappell, Dr. Kcasey McLoughlin, Dr. Suzanne Varrall, Michelle Jarvis and many other speakers to this event!

Thanks @krajewskimarkus.bsky.social for kicking off the CHREN Human Rights Colloquium with a great discussion on developing a Legally Binding Instrument on BHR—addressing who promotes it, why companies have human rights responsibilities even though they have no souls, and the public-private divide.

Thank you @ecchr.bsky.social and Tilburg University, all participants & speakers for making the International Summer School 2025 at FAU CHREN an inspiring experience! A week full of lectures by leading scholars, casework, side events, films & city walks, exchange, collaboration & new networks. 👐

Auf der Suche nach einer Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich der empirischen Menschenrechtsforschung? An der @fau.de suchen wir eine*n Postdoc für 3+3 Jahre für unser Team. tinyurl.com/4d3w3th6

Today we start our international conference on "Shaping the Future of Business and Human Rights" @fau.de and @humanrights-fau.bsky.social. Looking forward to discussions and reflections based on the work of our 20 doctoral researchers.