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. Her PhD project has the working title “The democratic nation state between universality and exclusion: The doctrine of states’ right to migration control in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights”. It connects democratic theory with a doctrinal and normative analysis of the migration jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.