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Catharina Ziebritzki

Research Fellow

ziebritzki@mpil.de

Main Fields of Research:

EU Law; Migration Law

Academic Career:

since 01/2024: Research Fellow at the MPIL

2016-2022: Research Fellow at the MPIL​​​​​​​

  • Dissertation under the supervision of Armin von Bogdandy at Frankfurt University "The EU's Responsibility in the European Asylum Administration" (summa cum laude)
  • 2017 - 2020: Member of Research Initiative on Migration of the Max-Planck Society
  • 2016 - 2019: Member of Research Centre Normative Orders

2015: First State Exam in Law

2009 - 2014: Studies in Law in Heidelberg (Ruprecht Karls University) and Istanbul (Yeditepe Üniversitesi)

Recent Publications

  • Warum die „Instrumentalisierung“ Asylsuchender kein Argument für die Aussetzung ihrer Grundrechte ist. In: Kritische Justiz 55, 152-166 (2022).
  • The Integrated EU Hotspot Administration and the Question of the EU's Liability. In: The External Dimension of EU Migration and Asylum Policies, David Moya et al. Markus Kotzur (ed.). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2020, 253-294.
  • The Objective of Resettlement in an EU Constitutional Perspective. In: Humanitarian Admission to Europe. The Law between Promises and Constraints, Marie-Claire Foblets, Luc Leboeuf (eds.). Nomos/Hart, Baden-Baden/Oxford 2020, 285-340.
  • Unionsrecht statt „Deals“ in der europäischen Asylpolitik. Zu zwei Beschlüssen des VG München zum „EU-Türkei-Deal“ und dem sog „Seehofer-Deal“. In: Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 3, 129-133 (2020) (with Robert Nestler).

Blogposts

  • A Hidden Success. Why the EU General Court’s Frontex Judgment is Better Than it Seems. Verfassungsblog, 13 Oct 2023. Link to Blogpost
  • Refugee Camps at EU External Borders, the Question of the Union’s Responsibility, and the Potential of EU Public Liability Law. Verfassungsblog, 05 Feb 2020. Link to Blogpost

Further Publications

  • No State of Exception at the EU External Borders: The Implications of the Rule of Law in the Context of the Greek-Turkish Border Closure and the Temporary 'Suspension' of the Asylum Law in Greece. Expert Legal Opinion, 2020 (zusammen mit Nora Markard, Robert Nestler, Vinzent Vogt ). Link to Expert Legal Opinion

Presentations

07 Dec 2023

Panel Discussion on the Reform of the Common European Asylum System

Humbold University Berlin, Prof. Endres de Oliveira & RLC Berlin & RAV

Link to Event

16 Nov 2023

The EU's Responsibility for Fundamental Rights Violations at External Borders

Human Rights Discussion Group, MPIL Heidelberg

11 Nov 2023

Integrated Administration and Judicial Remedies (Workshop)

17th Conference of the Network Migration Law "Rule of Law. Between Migration Control and Human Rights?", Stuttgart-Hohenheim

Link to Event

29 Jun 2022

Introduction to Political Theory on Migration: A Brief Account of Intellectual History & Current Discourse

Frankfurt University (Normative Orders) & Max Planck Law

Link to Event

20 May 2022

The Action for Damages: Makeshift Judicial Oversight?

Universität Konstanz (EULEN Network)

Link to Event

21 Jan 2022

Berufsbilder: Wissenschaft & NGO

Justitia Mentoring Freiburg

25 Nov 2021

Frontex’s Responsibilities in the Integrated Border Administration

Advanced Vertical Cooperation and Fundamental Rights

EULEN Roundtable, University Bonn

03 Mar 2021

Menschenrechte im Europäischen Asylrecht (Human Rights in European Asylum Law)

What is new in the New Migration Pact?

Online-Seminar der Studienstiftung "Visible Together"

28 Oct 2020

Who is responsible for Moria? The EU hotspot administration and the question of the EU's Liability

Online Seminar, The Aftermath of the 2015 - Lessons Learnt From the So-Called Migration Crisis in Germany, Research Initiative on Migration of the Max Planck Society

Link to Event

20 Oct 2020

Solidarität oder gemeinsame Verantwortungslosigkeit? Der Vorschlag zum EU-Migrationspakt auf dem Prüfstand (zusammen mit Dana Schmalz und Christian Jakob)

MPIL Momentum Digital

Link to Event

23 Sep 2020

Zur Bedeutung der Menschenrechte an der EU-Außengrenze

Online Seminar, Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen. Vortragsreihe Migration and Asylum Policy in Times of Crisis

Link to Event

22 May 2020

El impacto del Covid-19 en asilo y migración en Europa

MPIL Online Seminar: Covid-19 y sus impactos en América Latina. Desafíos desde la perspective de migración

19 Feb 2020

Legal Reality - Practical Knowledge in Legal Scholarship

VULNER Workshop on Methods, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle

30 Jan 2020

EU Hotspots versus Menschenrechtsschutz? (Workshop)

Tagung "Frei und Gleich an Würde und Rechten. Menschenrechte in der Praxis des Migrationsrechts", REMAP, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Teaching

15.02.2022

EU-Außengrenze: Belarus, die Kommission & die Instrumentalisierung Asylsuchender

Humbold-Universität zu Berlin (Refugee Law Clinic)

Sommersemester 2021

70 Years Geneva Refugee Convention

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Sommersemester 2021

Asylrecht Grundlagen (Europarecht, Verfassungsrecht)

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

27.04.2020

Current developments in international refugee law with a focus on the ECHR

Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (International Law Colloquium)

Summer Term 2020

Honours

PhD Scholarship of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (since August 2018)

Memberships

Netzwerk Migrationsrecht (Migration Law Network) - member

Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung (Refugee Research Network) - member

Pro Bono Heidelberg (Refugee Law Clinic Heidelberg) - co-founder / advisory board member

Miscellaneous

Equal Rights Beyond Borders

- since 2019: board member & legal coordination at Equal Rights Beyond Borders (in particular: project for family reunion from Eastern African countries)

- 2017 and 2018: management of the legal aid office in Chios, Greece: Dec 2017 to Feb 2018, and Sept to Dec 2018 (previously research stays in April 2017 and June 2016 in Lesbos and Chios)

- 2016: co-foundation of the NGO Equal Rights Beyond Borders

 

Organization of Conferences and Lectures

- 14th Autumn Conference of the Network Migration Law (2020): "Law at Borders / at Law's Borders?"

- 11th Autumn Conference of the Network Migration Law (2017): "Hysteria? Law and Public Discourse in Times of 'Refugee Crisis'"

- Practice-oriented Lecture Series on Asylum Law (Pro Bono e.V. in cooperation with the Law Faculty of the University Heidelberg) - co-foundation and -organization from summer term 2017 to summer term 2018