Laura Goller
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Biography Laura Goller (she/her) works as a research assistant at the Center for Diversity, Media, and Law and is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Public Law and European Law (Prof. Jürgen Bast) at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. She is also an associated researcher of the DFG-research group "Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies" (MeDiMi), and is dedicated to promoting exchange and networking among MeDiMi research assistants by co-leading the MeDiMi-section at the Giessen Graduate Center for Social, Economic, and Legal Sciences (GGS). Laura studied Law and Political Science at the Universities of Münster and Turin, and passed the First State Examination in Law at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm in 2023. During her studies, she specialized in International and European law, and completed the advanced foreign language training "International Law" at the University of Münster. At the Center, Laura works primarily within the context of the working group on law and related matters. She is also project coordinator of the JLU Giessen’s "Forschungsnetzwerk Migration und Menschenrechte" (FMM).
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Short CV Research assistant at the Center for Diversity, Media, and Law since January 2025 Doctoral candidate at the Chair of Public Law and European Law (Prof. Jürgen Bast) since January 2025 Research associate in MeDiMi's coordination unit, 2024 Political Science and Law, University of Münster (Bachelor of Arts), 2024 First State Examination in Law, Higher Regional Court Hamm (Master Iuris), 2023 Foreign language training "International Law", University of Münster, 2021
Publications The Absolute Prohibition of Refoulement and Exceptional Circumstances – Third Party Intervention by 22 academics in the case of C.O.C.G. v Lithuania before the ECtHR (2025), Bonavero Reports, see here. Deflecting Reality by Viewing Migration Through the Lens of ‘Emergency’ (2025), Blog Nova Icària (Observatori De Dret Públic, Barcelona), see here. The Claim of Hybrid Attacks. Balancing State Sovereignty and Migrants’ Rights at the European Court of Human Rights (2025), Verfassungsblog, see here. A Right to Come Within State Jurisdiction Under Non-Refoulement? Interpreting Article 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights in Good Faith Within the Context of Extraterritorial Migration Control (2024), Goettingen Journal of International Law, see here. |
Dissertation project In her dissertation project, supervised by Prof. Jürgen Bast, Laura focuses on norms of emergency and exceptionality within European migration law. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to law, she pays particular attention to the use of metaphors and framings of crises in migration-related discourse and affects of emergency in migration societies.
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