human rights

At an international human rights conference jointly organized by the University of Freiburg (FRIAS) and the Gladstein Familiy Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach participated in a panel discussion and gave a presentation on the Academic Freedom Index....

Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can the resilience capacity of democracies be operationalized and measured? In the recently published article “Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis”, published Political Studies, Aurel Croissant (Heidelberg University) and Lars Lott (FAU) examine how democratic resilience capacity can be operationalized and measured and to what extent it strengthens the resilience of democracies to autocratization.

On 24 June, in collaboration with FAU's Center for Human Rights and the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, we hosted a talk by Harvard professor and FAU honorary doctor Kathryn Sikkink on the emergence of individual criminal accountability for war crimes, mass atrocities and human rights vi...

A Joint Event by FAU CHREN and the International Nuremberg Principles Academy The FAU Research Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN) and the International Nuremberg Principles Academy cordially invite you to a public evening lecture by Harvard professor and FAU honorary doctor Kathr...

From May 22 to 25, 2025, doctoral candidate and research associate Alicja Polakiewicz participated in the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association (LSA) in Chicago. The over 500 individual sessions held during the conference were attended by nearly 2,400 participants from more than 50 count...

Transnational repression—the cross-border intimidation and persecution of diaspora communities, exiled journalists, human rights defenders, and political dissidents—poses an increasing challenge from both a human rights and legal perspective. Affected individuals are increasingly confronted with sur...

The CHREN Human Rights Clinic is inviting applications from students interested in participating in a project with our practice partner Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V. (GFF) during the summer semester. The focus of the project will be an analysis of the practice of the UN Committee on Econo...

Why does social policy vary across authoritarian regimes? In his recent article, “All that is left is all that matters: the politics of social spending in authoritarian regimes”, published in Democratization, Angelo Vito Panaro examines the extent to which (a) the presence of de jure multiparty elec...

How can the allocation process be made more suitable for people seeking protection and local authorities? With the “Match'In” pilot project, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Hildesheim have been pursuing the goal over the last four years of making the official allocation process more su...

On 13 March 2025, the team behind the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) project released the 2025 AFI Update. The annual report, a collaborative effort by political scientists at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, provides ...