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From 2025, the Hans Böckler Foundation will fund a doctoral programme “De-Globalization and Global Decoupling (DeGlobE)” with up to twelve doctoral positions at the University of Erfurt, including at the Junior Professorship for Public International…

The Thuringian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Science and Digital Society is funding a new research unit for geoeconomics (EFGEo) at the University of Erfurt with almost 400,000 euros. The research unit emerged from the "Security Capitalism Research…

On 2 August 2024, the District Court (Landgericht) in Erfurt, Germany became the first German court to recognise the rights of nature in the case 8 O 1373/21. The second case cited the Amazon of Rights project as an important reference point in…

The Global Justice Clinic starts in the new winter semester with three courses and a guest lecture series. The curriculum includes a BA seminar on "Human Rights Protection and Modern Slavery" and MA courses on strategic litigation and clinic…

We invite submissions for a special issue examining ‘human-centred’ approaches in justice delivery, contrasting them with traditional managerialist paradigms. This issue seeks to explore the theoretical foundations, real-world applications, and…

The Amazon of Rights project is co-organising and presenting at “The Law and the Amazon” conference in collaboration with the Max Planck Law and Max Planck Latin America Forum.

This question was the topic of a guest lecture given by Prof. Michael Riegner at the Federal University of Pará in Brazil on August 21, 2024. Based on current case law of the European Court of Human Rights on the so-called “human right to climate…

The topic of the rights of nature is currently being discussed in many different places. In order to bring some of these discussion threads together, a "Rights of Nature Coffee Party" was held at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences on…