Dr. Janne Mende
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PD Dr. Janne Mende is Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law since 2020. In her Research Group MAGGI (“The Multiplication of Authorities in Global Governance Institutions”) she analyzes the authority of state, inter-state and non-state actors of global governance in the United Nations and the European Union. Additionally, she leads the DFG-funded Research Project “Business Actors beyond Public and Private: Authority, Legitimacy and Responsibility in the United Nations Human Rights Regime” (BAPP) since 2018. Prior to her time at the MPIL, she has held positions as deputy professor for Transnational Governance at the Technical University of Darmstadt (2019/20), project leader at the Institute for Political Sciences at the University of Giessen (2018-2020), postdoctoral fellow at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (2017/18) and postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Development and Decent Work at the University of Kassel (2014-2017). Over the past years, she has held visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, the School of Global Studies in Gothenburg, the Danish Institute for Human Rights in Copenhagen, the WZB – Berlin Social Science Center, Research Unit Global Governance, the Research Centre Human Rights at the University of Vienna, the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice at the University of Nottingham and the New School for Social Research in New York. Her habilitation thesis (Nomos 2020) analyzes the transformations resulting from the challenging constellation between global governance and human rights between and beyond the public and the private sphere. Her PhD thesis (Campus 2015; Rowman & Littlefield Int. 2016) analyzes liberal and communitarian approaches to collective rights, discussing the chances and challenges of indigenous human rights to culture and identity in the United Nations. A previous study on universalism, cultural relativism and female genital mutilation/cutting was published in 2011 (Transcript). |
Academic Career |
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| Academic Degrees | |
| 07/2018 | Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Political Science, University of Kassel |
| 05/2014 | Dr. rer. soc. in Political Science, University of Giessen |
| 05/2010 | Magistra Artium in Political Science, Social Anthropology, Psychology, Free University Berlin |
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| 08 - 09/2019 | Visiting Researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Goteborg |
| 04 - 06/2019 | Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg |
| 08 - 09/2018 | Visiting Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen |
| Since 06/2018 | Project leader in the research project: “Business Actors beyond Public and Private: Authority, Legitimacy and Responsibility in the United Nations Human Rights Regime”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), project number 398306144 |
| 03 - 05/2018 | Visiting Researcher at the WZB, Research Unit Global Governance |
| 09/2017 - 03/2018 | Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bamberg |
| 09-10/2015 | Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre Human Rights, University of Vienna |
| 2014 - 2017 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Center for Development and Decent Work and the Unit Globalization & Politics, University of Kassel |
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09-10/2014 |
Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham |
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2013 - 2014 |
Lecturer in the Unit Globalization & Politics, University of Kassel |
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05/2012 |
Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research |
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2010 - 2013 |
PhD candidate in Political Science at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. PhD thesis: “A Human Right to Culture and Identity. The Ambivalence of Group Rights” |
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2006 - 2010 |
Magistra Artium in Political Science, Social Anthropology, Psychology at Free University Berlin |
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| Affiliation | Member of ZEU | Post Doc |
| Focus Area | Climate & Environmental Change |
| Project Involvement as Leader |
Die Multiplizierung von Autoritäten in Global-Governance-Institutionen |
| Research Areas | Global Governance and Transnationalisation, International Institutions, United Nations, Business and Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility, Non-State-Actors, Authority, Legitimacy and Power, Qualitative Research in International Organizations, Transnational Democracy, International Political Theory, Theories of International Relations, Culture, Identity and Cultural Rights |
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| Publications | PDF versions of selected articles are available upon request via email at janne.mende@sowi.uni-giessen.de |
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