Melina Riemer

Short bio

Melina Riemer is a PhD candidate and research assistant with Prof. Dr Grażyna Baranowska, Chair for Migration Law and Human Rights. She studied law at University of Münster (Germany) and Aalborg University (Denmark) with a specialisation in public international law and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in public international law with a specialisation in human rights from Utrecht University (Netherlands). From spring 2023 to 2025, she was a legal trainee at the High Court of Berlin (Kammergericht Berlin) and worked in a law firm specialised in migration law as well as for the Border Justice team of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR).

Melina Riemer does research at the intersection of human rights and migration law. Her work focuses on European migration law, European human rights protection and critical perspectives on law. She conducts interdisciplinary and critical research on migration, mobility, border regimes and the role of law and international courts.