Laura Kraft

Research Fellow

kraft@mpil.de

Main Fields of Research:

General international law, international human rights law, refugee and migration law

Academic Career:

Since 10/2023: PhD Candidate at the MPIL

Since 05/2023: Research Fellow at the MPIL, Berlin office

12/2023-03/2024: Intern with the Legal Unit of UNHCR Austria, Vienna

03/2023: First State Examination in Berlin

2018-2019: Study abroad at the University of New South Wales, Sydney (specialisation in Public International Law and Comparative Law)

2016-2023: Study of Law at Freie Universität Berlin

• Student assistant at the MPIL Berlin office 03/2020-04/2023 
• Student assistant with the Berlin Potsdam Research Group “The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?” chaired by Professor Heike Krieger and Professor Georg Nolte 04/2020-12/2021
• Intern with the German Embassy in Budapest, the German Federal Council (joint office for the committees on Foreign Affairs, European Union Questions and Defence) and a law firm specialising in asylum and migration law
• Jessup Moot Court 2020

Blogposts

• The impacts of climate change on the humanitarian system: towards truly long-term cooperative action. Völkerrechtsblog, 05 March 2021. doi: 10.17176/20210305-153721-0. voelkerrechtsblog.org/de/the-impacts-of-climate-change-on-the-humanitarian-system-towards-truly-long-term-cooperative-action/
  
• "Asylum Compromise" Revisited. MPIL100, 19 January 2024. https://mpil100.de/2024/01/asylum-compro...
  

Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad

Miscellaneous