Vita
Vera Wriedt is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Münster’s Käte Hamburger Centre on Legal Unity and Pluralism as well as at the Law Faculty's Institute for Public Law and Human Rights. She is also affiliated with the University of Pretoria and Ghent University. Vera’s research focuses on borders and human rights. Her doctoral thesis examines colonialism, nationality and expulsions in the European and African human rights systems, completed at the Hertie School and Ghent University with distinction (summa cum laude). She also holds a Master of Arts for Research in Social Sciences from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, a Master of Laws in Human Rights from Birkbeck University of London, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University. Before starting her PhD, Vera worked in the Border Justice Programme of the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). Visiting Fellowships brought her to the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and to the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Vera’s research has been supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Birkbeck’s School of Law, the Hertie School, Ghent University, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Max Planck Society, among others.
Teaching
2026-27: Constitutional Law (University of Münster)
2026: Critical Comparisons: Regional Human Rights Systems and Nationality Regimes (University of Münster)
2025-26: Introduction to Public Law (University of Münster)
2025: Migration and Human Rights (Hertie School Berlin)
2022: Global Migration, Refugee Law and Human Rights: A Critical Approach (with Hanaa Hakiki) (University of Münster)
2019-20: Citizenship, Migration and Violence: Struggles Against Borders and Racialised Exclusion (with Matija Vlatković) (Free University Berlin)
2018: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights: Theories and Practices of Freedom (with Matija Vlatković) (Free University Berlin)
Publications
Violeta Moreno-Lax/Vera Wriedt: The European Court of Human Rights’ case law concerning the entry and expulsion of non-nationals, Thematic Paper, Council of Europe Division on Migration and Refugees, 2026.
Cathryn Costello/Vera Wriedt: Regional Human Rights Courts, in: Vincent Chetail (Ed.), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, 2025, S. 461 – 467, DOI: 10.4337/9781802204155.00085
Vera Wriedt: Expanding exceptions? AA and others v North Macedonia, systematic pushbacks and the fiction of legal pathways, in: Strasbourg Observers, 2022.
Vera Wriedt: Push-backs Rejected: D.D. v. Spain and the rights of minors at EU borders, in: EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy Blog, 2019.
Wolfgang Kaleck/Vera Wriedt: Abschiebungen aus Spanien: Gewalt im Grenzbereich. Der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte verurteilt Spanien wegen Kollektivabschiebungen von Flüchtlingen und schafft einen Präzedenzfall, in: ZEIT Nr. 09/2018.
Kiri Santer/Vera Wriedt: (De-)Constructing Borders. Contestations in and around the Balkan Corridor in 2015/16, in: movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies 3 (1) (2017).