Using a new dataset of Stasi remand prisoners from the 1960s until 1989, this collaborative project aims to gain a systematic understanding of the practice of authoritarian justice …
The TRANSNORMS project explores how international norms are translated between the global and local level. Using topic modeling methods, we analyze how international human rights …
The project investigates why democracies differ so profoundly in the civil liberty protections embedded in their criminal process and why these protection regimes change over time. …
New artificial intelligence tools are being released at a staggering pace, making traditional ways of data collection look outdated and potentially obsolete. However, the real …
This article is an interview I conducted with Thea Posel, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Capital Punishment Clinic at Texas Law and the …
In ‘International Attention and the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Campaigning for Agents of Change’ (Routledge 2023), Dr. Janika Spannagel (Freie Universitat Berlin) seeks …
The topics of internal security and crime prevention are omnipresent in political debates, but comparatively rare in political science research. In this seminar, we develop a …
This article analyzes reprisals and intimidation against human rights defenders who engage with the United Nations, focusing on how such cases are monitored and addressed within …
Focusing only on defenders’ physical integrity risks undermining the very idea of supporting agents of human rights change.
This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights …