Vita

Vera Wriedt is a 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. Her research focuses on borders and human rights. She completed her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Bordering Belonging: Colonialism, Nationality and Expulsions in the European and African Human Rights Systems’ 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). She has taught courses on human rights and migration at Freie Universität Berlin and the Hertie School. 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. 

Research Project

Publications

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: Straßburg Observers, 2022.  

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).