Dr. Esra Demir-Gürsel is one of the principal investigators of Volkswagen Foundation funded project on 'Framing Reality and Normativity in European Human Rights Law: Climate Change, Migration, and Authoritarianism' at the Hertie School. In this project, she explores which and whose frames shape the relationship between reality and normativity on matters related to climate change, migration, and authoritarianism in the field of European human rights law.
Before joining the Hertie School, Esra was a Georg Forster fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a visiting postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universität-Berlin. At Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, she taught seminars on History and Politics of International Human Rights Law, Regional Human Rights Courts, and Morality and Religion in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. She has published on a range of human rights related issues. Esra earned her PhD in Public Law from Marmara University and holds an an LLM degree from Istanbul University and MA degree in Human Rights from the University of Essex.
