Dana Burchardt

About/Bio

Dana Burchardt is a visiting professor at Humboldt University Berlin and an associated researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. She has been a senior research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin in the context of the Berlin Potsdam Research Group "International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?", an assistant professor at the China University of Political Science and Law and a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She received her doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin and completed her post-doctoral thesis at the University of Bonn. She has studied law in Potsdam and Paris and has completed her first and second State Exam as well as a maîtrise en droit. Her research interests include international law, interdisciplinary approaches to law, legal theory and European and domestic constitutional law.

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Human Rights Committee Globalises Waite and Kennedy – But Fails to Protect Judicial Independence Effectively

In its views adopted on 18 July 2024, the UN Human Rights Committee took an important step towards addressing rule of law and fair trial issues within international organisations and their internal justice mechanisms. This is a very welcome and necessary development for the international legal order. Unfortunately, the Committee failed to apply the relevant legal standard…

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