Dr. Janina Heaphy

Dr. Janina Heaphy

Associated Researcher

Janina Heaphy works as a senior researcher at the FAU Center for Human Rights (CHREN), where she researches and teaches foreign policy analysis, human rights, diplomacy, and security studies. In her doctoral thesis, Janina Heaphy examined the emergence of extraterritorial human rights protections in American, British, and German counterterrorism efforts and has since researched various accountability mechanisms  as well as state strategies for avoiding said accountability in light of international norm violations. Her articles have been published in the European Journal of International Relations, as well as in Policy&Politics, Cooperation and Conflict, and Perspectives on Politics. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Human Rights (zfmr). In the course of her academic career, Janina Heaphy has worked as a lecturer and research assistant at the universities of Leiden, Bamberg, Munich (LMU), and Aston University Birmingham. She is currently working on her ‘Habilitation’ at the Chair of Human Rights Policy.

  • International Relations
  • Human Rights
  • Foreign Policy Analysis
  • Political Communication and Psycology
  • Security Studies

  • Monograph
    • Heupel M., Heaphy C., & Heaphy J. (2022). US Counterterrorism and the human rights of foreigners
      abroad – Putting the Gloves Back on?, Routledge Studies in Human Rights, New York: Taylor & Francis.
  • Articles
    • Heaphy, J. (2025) Die Legitimität gezielter Tötungen im Wandel: Der Einfluss der US-Drohnenpolitik auf europäische Menschenrechts- und Sicherheitsdebatten. Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte.
    • Heaphy, J. (2024). When Identity Meets Strategy – The development of British and German anti-torture policies since 9/11. Cooperation and Conflict.
    • Heaphy, J. (2023) Book Review: American Torture from the Philippines to Iraq: A Recurring Nightmare, by William L. d’Ambruoso. Perspectives on Politics, 21(1).
    • Heaphy, J. (2022). British counterterrorism, the international prohibition of torture, and the Multiple Streams Framework, Policy & Politics, 50(2), pp. 225-241.
    • Heupel M., Heaphy C., & Heaphy J. (2021). Seeing Reason or Seeing Costs? The United States, counterterrorism, and the human rights of foreigners, European Journal for International Relations, 28(1), pp.131-157.
  • Others
    • Heaphy, J. (2024) Italy’s cross-border crackdown on surrogacy, and the rising tide of transnational represseion. ECPR, The Loop, https://theloop.ecpr.eu/italys-cross-border-crackdown-on-surrogacy-and-the-rising-tide-of-transnational-repression/ (Nominated for ‘Best Blog Piece of the Year 2024, ECPR The Loop)
    • Heaphy, J. (2024). Going against Torture. How to hold powerful states accountable. CHREN Podcast
    • Heaphy, J. (2023). Menschenrechte: Wichtig gerade auch für schwere Zeiten – Experten Interview. 08. Dezember. Nürnberger Nachrichten
    • Heaphy, J. (2023). Das Zentrum für Menschenrechte in Nürnberg – TV-Interview. 22. September. Franken Fernsehen
    • Heaphy, J. (2023). Grundlagen der deutschen Außenpolitik – Expert Interview. In: Dettelbacher, S. and Dillig, C., Lehrfilm deutsche Außenpolitk, FWU – Institut für Film und Wissenschaft und Unterricht
    • Heaphy, J. (2023). The development of extraterritorial human rights safeguards as a strategic tool in foreign policy-making: American, German, and British approaches towards the international prohibition of torture since 9/11. Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.
    • Heaphy, J. (2022). Why refrain from torturing foreigners abroad? 20/04/2022 in: Policy & Politics Journal Blog; https://policyandpoliticsblog.com/2022/04/20/why-refrain-from-torturing-foreigners-abroad-british-counterterrorism-and-the-international-prohibition-of-torture/