PhD Thesis
Title: Does Power Oblige? A conceptual analysis human rights and corporations
PhD Supervisor & Co-supervisor: Nico Krisch and Janne Nijman
Expected completion date: 2023
I demonstrate how human rights law is used as a tool of both domination and resistance in constructing corporations as subjects in international law.
Profile
Dorothea is a PhD Candidate in International Law at the Graduate Institute. She holds a bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Lucerne, and a master’s degree in International and European Law from the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of Geneva, and the Swiss Bar Exam (Anwaltspatent). Amongst others, she worked at the European Court of Human Rights, a data protection law firm (Sury, Lucerne), provided legal support for refugees and unducumented persons (Sans Papiers Lucerne), founded and led the NGO 'Gemeinsam Znacht Luzern' (aimed at facilitating the contact between newly arrived refugees and Lucerne's citizen.), and worked as a research and teaching assistant at the chair of legal sociology at the University of Lucerne.
Academic Work experience
Research Experience
Research Associate at the PATHS of International Law Research Project
Research Interests
- The Role of Corporations in International Law
- International Human Rights Law
- Foucault and International Law
- Practice Theory
- Relationship between Global North and Global South
- Law and Literature
- Legal Change
Relevant Publications and Works
- Endres, Dorothea (2021) “The Human Side of Protecting Foreign Investment“, Transnational Legal Theory, 12:2, 249-268, DOI: 10.1080/20414005.2021.1926141
- Das Lieferkettengesetz als Global Governance (egl. title: The German Value Chain Law as Global Governance), in co-authorship with Nico Krisch, (2022) Rechtswissenschaften, 13(4), pp. 463-491,
- Bias in Social Media Content Management: What Do Human Rights Have To Do with It? In co-authorship with Luisa Hedler and Kebene Wodajo, (2023) AJIL Unbound Symposium
- Conceptualizing Legal Change as ‘Norm-knitting’ - Through the Example of The Environmental Human Right, Leiden Journal of International Law
- Whose International Law is Changing? The Practice of Fragmented Communities Constructing Legal Change, forthcoming in: Nico Krisch and Ezgi Yildiz (eds), The Many Paths of Change in International Law (OUP)
Affiliations
Swiss Bar Exam