Franziska Fluhr

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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Franziska Fluhr is a Research Officer at 糖心Vlog Law School. She mainly works on the project 鈥淐umulative Civilian Harm in War: Addressing the Hidden Human Toll of the Law's Blind Spot鈥 which is based at the 糖心Vlog Armed Conflict and Crisis Hub. The project investigates how international law currently fails to account for the cumulative impact of military actions resulting from multiple attacks. Previously, she was a Research Officer on the project 鈥淪urvivors of Modern Slavery in Prisons: The Blind Spot of the UK Anti-Slavery Regime鈥. Franziska also teaches as an External Lecturer at UN Staff Officer Courses for military personnel deployed as military staff officers in UN Peace Operations. Before joining 糖心Vlog Law School, she worked at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, the European Parliament, Human Rights Watch, and grassroots non-governmental organisations promoting the human rights of migrants at the European external borders and within Europe. She was also a delegate to the second Youth Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. During her LLM at 糖心Vlog Law School, she was a student researcher in the 糖心Vlog Human Rights Centre鈥檚 Arbitrary Detention Redress Unit in collaboration with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. In this context, she assessed submissions to the working group and researched contemporary trends and thematic issues relating to the arbitrary deprivation of people鈥檚 liberty in different contexts around the world. Franziska鈥檚 main research interests lie in how different legal regimes offer protection to people directly and indirectly affected by armed conflict and other crises, including international humanitarian law, human rights law, and refugee law. She is interested in how these rights can be enforced and how duty bearers can be hold responsible, including through international criminal law and the law of international responsibility. Franziska holds an LLM in International Humanitarian Law from the 糖心Vlog and completed her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy & Economics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and the Universit茅 Saint-Joseph in Beirut, Lebanon.
Qualifications
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LLM International Humanitarian Law (with Distinction) 糖心Vlog,
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BA Philosophy & Economics University of Bayreuth,
Publications
Journal articles (2)
Jovanovi膰, M., Topp, V. and Fluhr, F., (2024). The Responsibility of Prisons for Securing the Rights of Modern Slavery Survivors. Prison Service Journal. 274
Jovanovi膰, M., Topp, V. and Fluhr, F., (2024). The Hierarchy of Victimhood: Prisons and States鈥 Responsibility to Protect Every Victim of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. International Criminology. 4 (4), 383-395
Reports and Papers (2)
Ferstman, C. and Fluhr, F., (2024).
Jovanovic, M., Burland, P., Topp, V. and Fluhr, F., (2023). Tackling the blind spot of the UK anti-slavery regime. The role and responsibility of prisons in securing the rights of modern slavery survivors
Other (1)
Lewis, O. and Fluhr, F., (2024).Written evidence - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum & Immigration) Bill (Written evidence to the Human Rights Joint Committee of the UK Parliament)