Email: schmalz@mpil.de
Website: www.mpil.de/de/pub/institut/personen/wissenschaftlicher-bereich/dschmalz.cfm
Bio:
Dana Schmalz is a scholar of international law and legal philosophy. She is a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School, New York. Her work focuses on international and European refugee law, fundamental rights, democratic theory, and critical approaches to international law. Her book “Refugees, Democracy and the Law” is planned to be published with Routledge in 2020. Dana Schmalz holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Frankfurt (2017) and an LL.M. in Comparative Legal Thought from Cardozo Law School, New York. In spring 2019, she has been a visiting professor at the University of Bremen. Before that, she was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg/Berlin (2011-2016), and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen (2017-2018). Dana Schmalz is a chief editor at Voelkerrechtsblog and an associate editor at Verfassungsblog, she is part of the editing team of the journal Kritische Justiz.
Recent publications:
- Refugees, Democracy and the Law. Political Rights at the Margins of the State, Routledge (2020).
- Digging Holes and Building Walls: Spatial Imaginations of the Law in Stories by Franz Kafka and Rachel Shihor, Polemos – Journal of Law, Literature and Culture 16 (2022) 1, 121–138.
- Two Schemes of Responsibility-sharing for Refugees in Europe and the Role of Individuals Rights, in: Massimo Iovane/Fulvio M. Palombino/Daniele Amoroso/Giovanni Zarra (eds.), The Protection of General Interests in Contemporary International Law: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry (Oxford University Press 2021), 361-382.
- A counterbalancing exception: the refugee concept as a normative idea, Inter Gentes 2 (2020)
- Social freedom in a global world: Axel Honneth's and Seyla Benhabib's reconsiderations of a Hegelian perspective on justice (2019)
- The principle of responsibility-sharing in refugee protection (Blogpost, 2019)
- Will the ECtHR Shake up the European Asylum System? (Blogpost, 2018)
- Global responsibility sharing and the production of superfluity in the context of refugee protection (2017)