Malte Spielmann

Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Global Justice Clinic (Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences)

Malte Spielmann

Biography

Academic qualifications:

  • 2023: Master of Public Policy at the Hertie School (Berlin)
  • 2019: LL.M. Human Rights, Conflict and Justice at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
  • 2018: B.A. Political Science and Law at the University of Münster
  • 2017: Foreign Law and Language Programme in “Common Law” with Specialization in American Constitutional Law at the University of Münster

Professional experience:

  • 2023: Legal Trainee at the Institute for Legal Intervention of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
  • 2020-2023: Student Research Assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL), Berlin Office
  • 2021-2022: Student Research Assistant at the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Scripts (SCRIPTS)” at FU Berlin
  • 2020-2022: Member of the Student Advisory Board of the Hertie Centre for Fundamental Rights
  • 2018-2023: Conference Assistant for the Green Academy at the Heinrich-Böll-foundation (hbs)
  • 2018-2019: Student Researcher at the International Human Rights Law Clinic at SOAS, University of London, supervised by Prof. Dr. Lynn Welchman
  • 2016-2018: Research Assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Münster and Tutor for the Courses Comparative Political Science (2016), International Relations(2017), and Political Theory (2017/18) as well as instructor of the course “A non-Orientalist Introduction to Turkish Politics” (2017)

Research interests and expertise

  • Human Rights Law and Practice
  • International Law
  • Digital Rights and Politics
  • Law and Authoritarianism
  • Turkish Studies
  • Comparative Constitutional Law
  • Critical Legal Theory

Publications

“Kemalism, the Judiciary, and Human Rights Diffusion: The ECHR in Turkey“ Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law Research Paper (No. 2021-18)http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3894514  

§  „Von Holmes zu Brown v Board of Education: Die Konturen des Judicial Self-Restraint“ Die öffentliche Verwaltung (DÖV 2018, 22) with Erich Röperhttps://www.doev.de/ausgaben/22-2018/