Bio
Dr. Lena Riemer is an Assistant Professor of Law at Central European University in Vienna, Austria, where she teaches courses on migration, asylum, gender and human rights.
Dr. Riemer's Ph.D. research at Freie Universität Berlin focused on the prohibition of collective expulsion in the international, African, European and Inter-American human rights systems. She has published on European and Latin American topics, mainly related to migration policies, climate change and migration and broader human rights issues. In addition to her Ph.D., Lena holds a law degree from Humboldt University Berlin and an LL.M. from Yale Law School. She also studied at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
Her professional experience includes serving as a Mercator Fellow, where she worked for various civil society organizations on strategic human rights litigation in Mexico and Colombia and the International Organization for Migration on climate change adaptation. Previously, she worked for the United Nations High Commissioner in Germany and as a research and teaching assistant at Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität Berlin, and Yale Law School.