Grażyna Baranowska
@grabaranowska.bsky.social
Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights @fau.de & UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances
missing persons, border violence, memory laws
missing persons, border violence, memory laws
Join us in Nürnberg for a full-time, 3 year Postdoctoral position within an ambitious, interdisciplinary, and international human rights project🔥
💼 Call for Applications: Up to 5 Postdoc Positions for Cluster of Excellence „Transforming Human Rights“
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November 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Join us in Nürnberg for a full-time, 3 year Postdoctoral position within an ambitious, interdisciplinary, and international human rights project🔥
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Would you ask a judge to declare a house haunted? What about suing a fortune-teller for mispredicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims?
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Would you ask a judge to declare a house haunted? What about suing a fortune-teller for mispredicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims?
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
German Court: Systemic flaws in Poland’s asylum system, especially for people entering via Belarus, mean Germany can’t send them back under the Dublin rules.
Oha: Wer über Belarus und Polen nach Deutschland reist, kann hier einen Asylantrag stellen, so das VG Hannover. "Systemische Mängel" in Polen verhinderten eine Rücküberstellung nach den Dublin-Regeln. Details von @mkolter.bsky.social.
Systemische Mängel: Keine Dublin-Überstellung nach Polen
Wer über Belarus und Polen nach Deutschland reist, kann dort zulässigerweise Asyl beantragen, so das VG Hannover. Polen verweigere ein ordentliches Verfahren.
www.lto.de
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
German Court: Systemic flaws in Poland’s asylum system, especially for people entering via Belarus, mean Germany can’t send them back under the Dublin rules.
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)
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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)
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🕊️ The dMSA series returns!
🎙️ Moderator: Grażyna Baranowska
👥 Speakers: Silvana Mandolessi, Cath Collins, Ulrike Capdepón
Join us on October 21st to explore how memory can confront disappearance and advance truth, justice, and reparation.
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/46O35vW
🎙️ Moderator: Grażyna Baranowska
👥 Speakers: Silvana Mandolessi, Cath Collins, Ulrike Capdepón
Join us on October 21st to explore how memory can confront disappearance and advance truth, justice, and reparation.
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/46O35vW
October 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
🕊️ The dMSA series returns!
🎙️ Moderator: Grażyna Baranowska
👥 Speakers: Silvana Mandolessi, Cath Collins, Ulrike Capdepón
Join us on October 21st to explore how memory can confront disappearance and advance truth, justice, and reparation.
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/46O35vW
🎙️ Moderator: Grażyna Baranowska
👥 Speakers: Silvana Mandolessi, Cath Collins, Ulrike Capdepón
Join us on October 21st to explore how memory can confront disappearance and advance truth, justice, and reparation.
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/46O35vW
Reposted by Grażyna Baranowska
Polish judge invokes Cicero's concept of a just war to declare that a German European Arrest Warrant against a Ukrainian national who allegedly sabotaged a Russian pipeline in international waters is invalid. Welcome to Mitteleuropa.
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Polish judge invokes Cicero's concept of a just war to declare that a German European Arrest Warrant against a Ukrainian national who allegedly sabotaged a Russian pipeline in international waters is invalid. Welcome to Mitteleuropa.
Reposted by Grażyna Baranowska
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
www.pol.phil.fau.de
October 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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
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Katia Hamann, @mehrdadpayandeh.bsky.social (beide von der @buceriuslaw.bsky.social) und ich haben in der aktuellen Ausgabe der JZ von @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social zu sozialen Menschenrechten als subjektiven Rechten geschrieben.
TLDR: Man kann sie einklagen!
www.mohrsiebeck.com/artikel/sozi...
TLDR: Man kann sie einklagen!
www.mohrsiebeck.com/artikel/sozi...
September 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Katia Hamann, @mehrdadpayandeh.bsky.social (beide von der @buceriuslaw.bsky.social) und ich haben in der aktuellen Ausgabe der JZ von @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social zu sozialen Menschenrechten als subjektiven Rechten geschrieben.
TLDR: Man kann sie einklagen!
www.mohrsiebeck.com/artikel/sozi...
TLDR: Man kann sie einklagen!
www.mohrsiebeck.com/artikel/sozi...
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It’s publication day!
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...
If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...
If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
It’s publication day!
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...
If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...
If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.
Reposted by Grażyna Baranowska
1/ Today we launched one of two first reports by Israeli organisations, calling out the genocide in Gaza. The other report was published by B'tselem.
Our own report, by Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, focuses on the systematic destruction of health system.
Our own report, by Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, focuses on the systematic destruction of health system.
July 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
1/ Today we launched one of two first reports by Israeli organisations, calling out the genocide in Gaza. The other report was published by B'tselem.
Our own report, by Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, focuses on the systematic destruction of health system.
Our own report, by Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, focuses on the systematic destruction of health system.
Reposted by Grażyna Baranowska
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
@fau.de professor @grabaranowska.bsky.social is part of this group as member of the @wgeid.bsky.social
@fau.de professor @grabaranowska.bsky.social is part of this group as member of the @wgeid.bsky.social
UN experts alarmed by resumption of US deportations to third countries, warn authorities to assess risks of torture
GENEVA - UN human rights experts today sounded the alarm at the human rights implications of a recent ruling by the United States’ Supreme Court that paves the way for deportations of foreign nationa...
www.ohchr.org
July 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
@fau.de professor @grabaranowska.bsky.social is part of this group as member of the @wgeid.bsky.social
@fau.de professor @grabaranowska.bsky.social is part of this group as member of the @wgeid.bsky.social
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FAU-Projekt „Transforming Human Rights” wird Exzellenzcluster 🏅
Heute hat die DFG und der Wissenschaftsrat die künftig geförderten Exzellenzcluster bekanntgegeben. Und die FAU darf jubeln: Das Projekt „Transforming Human Rights“ ist dabei! 🤩 #FAUproud (1/3)
www.fau.de/2025/05/news...
Heute hat die DFG und der Wissenschaftsrat die künftig geförderten Exzellenzcluster bekanntgegeben. Und die FAU darf jubeln: Das Projekt „Transforming Human Rights“ ist dabei! 🤩 #FAUproud (1/3)
www.fau.de/2025/05/news...
Exzellenzstrategie: Herausragend in der Menschenrechtsforschung
Große Freude an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU): Das Forschungsprojekt „Transforming Human Rights“ wird Exzellenzcluster. Am späten Donnerstagnachmittag gaben die Deutsche…
www.fau.de
May 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
FAU-Projekt „Transforming Human Rights” wird Exzellenzcluster 🏅
Heute hat die DFG und der Wissenschaftsrat die künftig geförderten Exzellenzcluster bekanntgegeben. Und die FAU darf jubeln: Das Projekt „Transforming Human Rights“ ist dabei! 🤩 #FAUproud (1/3)
www.fau.de/2025/05/news...
Heute hat die DFG und der Wissenschaftsrat die künftig geförderten Exzellenzcluster bekanntgegeben. Und die FAU darf jubeln: Das Projekt „Transforming Human Rights“ ist dabei! 🤩 #FAUproud (1/3)
www.fau.de/2025/05/news...
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👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re FAU CHREN – the FAU Research Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg.
✋🏿✋🏽✋ We research and teach human rights with a global, interdisciplinary lens.
➕Follow us for insights from our projects, researchers & students.
🌐 www.humanrights.fau.de
#HumanRights #CHREN #FAU
✋🏿✋🏽✋ We research and teach human rights with a global, interdisciplinary lens.
➕Follow us for insights from our projects, researchers & students.
🌐 www.humanrights.fau.de
#HumanRights #CHREN #FAU
May 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re FAU CHREN – the FAU Research Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg.
✋🏿✋🏽✋ We research and teach human rights with a global, interdisciplinary lens.
➕Follow us for insights from our projects, researchers & students.
🌐 www.humanrights.fau.de
#HumanRights #CHREN #FAU
✋🏿✋🏽✋ We research and teach human rights with a global, interdisciplinary lens.
➕Follow us for insights from our projects, researchers & students.
🌐 www.humanrights.fau.de
#HumanRights #CHREN #FAU
Sehr empfehlenswert: Constantin Hrschuka erklärt, warum die aktuellen Kontrollen an den deutschen Binnengrenzen rechtswidrig sind.
Mein Kollege Constantin Hrschuka zerpflückt auf dem @verfassungsblog.de jede Begründung von Zurückweisungen an den Grenzen. 👓
"Die Weisung des Innenministers und die aktuelle Praxis der Zurückweisungen an den deutschen Binnengrenzen sind evident rechtswidrig."
verfassungsblog.de/zuruckweisun...
"Die Weisung des Innenministers und die aktuelle Praxis der Zurückweisungen an den deutschen Binnengrenzen sind evident rechtswidrig."
verfassungsblog.de/zuruckweisun...
Dobrindts Rechtsbruch
verfassungsblog.de
May 16, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Sehr empfehlenswert: Constantin Hrschuka erklärt, warum die aktuellen Kontrollen an den deutschen Binnengrenzen rechtswidrig sind.
Reposted by Grażyna Baranowska
Mein Kollege Constantin Hrschuka zerpflückt auf dem @verfassungsblog.de jede Begründung von Zurückweisungen an den Grenzen. 👓
"Die Weisung des Innenministers und die aktuelle Praxis der Zurückweisungen an den deutschen Binnengrenzen sind evident rechtswidrig."
verfassungsblog.de/zuruckweisun...
"Die Weisung des Innenministers und die aktuelle Praxis der Zurückweisungen an den deutschen Binnengrenzen sind evident rechtswidrig."
verfassungsblog.de/zuruckweisun...
Dobrindts Rechtsbruch
verfassungsblog.de
May 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Mein Kollege Constantin Hrschuka zerpflückt auf dem @verfassungsblog.de jede Begründung von Zurückweisungen an den Grenzen. 👓
"Die Weisung des Innenministers und die aktuelle Praxis der Zurückweisungen an den deutschen Binnengrenzen sind evident rechtswidrig."
verfassungsblog.de/zuruckweisun...
"Die Weisung des Innenministers und die aktuelle Praxis der Zurückweisungen an den deutschen Binnengrenzen sind evident rechtswidrig."
verfassungsblog.de/zuruckweisun...
Reposted by Grażyna Baranowska
Our Intertwining #criminal justice & #migration control book v/N. Vavoula & V. Mitsilegas out in Aug! www.routledge.com/Intertwining.... Check out @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social @majagrundler.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Our Intertwining #criminal justice & #migration control book v/N. Vavoula & V. Mitsilegas out in Aug! www.routledge.com/Intertwining.... Check out @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social @majagrundler.bsky.social
10 more days to apply for the great (full-time and permanent contract) job at @fau.de Center for Human Rights.
We are looking for an independant researcher, with a PhD, German and English language skills (both C1) and passion for human rights research.
www.humanrights.fau.de/2025/04/11/s...
We are looking for an independant researcher, with a PhD, German and English language skills (both C1) and passion for human rights research.
www.humanrights.fau.de/2025/04/11/s...
May 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
10 more days to apply for the great (full-time and permanent contract) job at @fau.de Center for Human Rights.
We are looking for an independant researcher, with a PhD, German and English language skills (both C1) and passion for human rights research.
www.humanrights.fau.de/2025/04/11/s...
We are looking for an independant researcher, with a PhD, German and English language skills (both C1) and passion for human rights research.
www.humanrights.fau.de/2025/04/11/s...
Reposted by Grażyna Baranowska
Reposted by Grażyna Baranowska
New publication with my friend Momchil Milanov! We follow the intellectual journey of André Mandelstam, a human rights forerunner who also dabbled with imperialism — a complicated figure, yet one worth studying. Open access @ejiltalk.bsky.social :
academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
A Well-known Stranger: André Mandelstam – From Empire to Human Rights
André Mandelstam delivered four courses at the Hague Academy between its inaugural session in 1923 and 1934, making him one of the most frequent lecturers
academic.oup.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
New publication with my friend Momchil Milanov! We follow the intellectual journey of André Mandelstam, a human rights forerunner who also dabbled with imperialism — a complicated figure, yet one worth studying. Open access @ejiltalk.bsky.social :
academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
Reposted by Grażyna Baranowska
New Event!
📆30th April
🕟4:30pm Thailand Time
Join @fidh-official.bsky.social for panel "Responses to Enforced disappearance in South-East Asia" at Thammasat Univestity, Bangkok.
w/ @grabaranowska.bsky.social Shui-Meng Ng, Ronnakon Burmee & Gabriella Citroni
📆30th April
🕟4:30pm Thailand Time
Join @fidh-official.bsky.social for panel "Responses to Enforced disappearance in South-East Asia" at Thammasat Univestity, Bangkok.
w/ @grabaranowska.bsky.social Shui-Meng Ng, Ronnakon Burmee & Gabriella Citroni
April 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
New Event!
📆30th April
🕟4:30pm Thailand Time
Join @fidh-official.bsky.social for panel "Responses to Enforced disappearance in South-East Asia" at Thammasat Univestity, Bangkok.
w/ @grabaranowska.bsky.social Shui-Meng Ng, Ronnakon Burmee & Gabriella Citroni
📆30th April
🕟4:30pm Thailand Time
Join @fidh-official.bsky.social for panel "Responses to Enforced disappearance in South-East Asia" at Thammasat Univestity, Bangkok.
w/ @grabaranowska.bsky.social Shui-Meng Ng, Ronnakon Burmee & Gabriella Citroni
Reposted by Grażyna Baranowska
Human rights were an imperialist tool, but also an anti-imperialist tool, but also a socialist tool, but also a liberal tool, but also a conservative tool, but also...
I'm seeing a lot of "human rights were an imperial tool" discourse right now, and yes sometimes - but I don't think you're going to like a world without them.
April 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Human rights were an imperialist tool, but also an anti-imperialist tool, but also a socialist tool, but also a liberal tool, but also a conservative tool, but also...
Reposted by Grażyna Baranowska
Due to the secretive nature of pushbacks – whose systematic occurrence the court acknowledges in the case of certain states – the burden of proof must shift to the states in the interest of evidentiary equality.
The Strasbourg Observer published a joint blog post (with MB Dembour and I Kienzle) summarizing the main points raised in our TPI to the ECtHR in the case of A.A.N. and Others v. Greece, concerning evidence and pushback
strasbourgobservers.com/2025/04/18/e...
strasbourgobservers.com/2025/04/18/e...
Evidencing Pushbacks at borders of CoE Member States: Third Party Intervention in A.A.N. and Others v. Greece (38203/20) - Strasbourg Observers
Grażyna Baranowska Marie-Bénédicte Dembour Isabel Kienzle This post, an output of the DISSECT project, is concomitantly being published on the DISSECT blog Regularly operated at many borders of CoE me...
strasbourgobservers.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Due to the secretive nature of pushbacks – whose systematic occurrence the court acknowledges in the case of certain states – the burden of proof must shift to the states in the interest of evidentiary equality.
The Strasbourg Observer published a joint blog post (with MB Dembour and I Kienzle) summarizing the main points raised in our TPI to the ECtHR in the case of A.A.N. and Others v. Greece, concerning evidence and pushback
strasbourgobservers.com/2025/04/18/e...
strasbourgobservers.com/2025/04/18/e...
Evidencing Pushbacks at borders of CoE Member States: Third Party Intervention in A.A.N. and Others v. Greece (38203/20) - Strasbourg Observers
Grażyna Baranowska Marie-Bénédicte Dembour Isabel Kienzle This post, an output of the DISSECT project, is concomitantly being published on the DISSECT blog Regularly operated at many borders of CoE me...
strasbourgobservers.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The Strasbourg Observer published a joint blog post (with MB Dembour and I Kienzle) summarizing the main points raised in our TPI to the ECtHR in the case of A.A.N. and Others v. Greece, concerning evidence and pushback
strasbourgobservers.com/2025/04/18/e...
strasbourgobservers.com/2025/04/18/e...
Thanks Cathryn for flagging this text and Brian's post. Indeed, it must have been clear that persons were deported into a context in which enforced disappearances are very likely to occur.
@grabaranowska.bsky.social - something to write more about?
One thing that US officials involved in disappearing people to El Salvador might wish to consider is that there may be countries that criminalize enforced disappearance AND have universal jurisdiction.
Could be relevant for future travel planning.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...
Could be relevant for future travel planning.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...
April 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Thanks Cathryn for flagging this text and Brian's post. Indeed, it must have been clear that persons were deported into a context in which enforced disappearances are very likely to occur.
Reposted by Grażyna Baranowska
Ich darf etwas verkünden, der von mir bearbeitete Kodex Grund- und Menschenrechte wurde soeben veröffentlicht. Alle wesentlichen Verträge und sonstigen Materialien in einer Sammlung. Heute wohl wichtiger denn je.
April 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Ich darf etwas verkünden, der von mir bearbeitete Kodex Grund- und Menschenrechte wurde soeben veröffentlicht. Alle wesentlichen Verträge und sonstigen Materialien in einer Sammlung. Heute wohl wichtiger denn je.