Dr Ruth Weinzierl
Ruth Weinzierl passed her state law examinations in Bavaria and
Saxony. Until 2004 she worked as a research assistant at the
Jean Monnet Chair for the Law of European Integration and
Comparative Law (Prof. Dr. Franz Merli) at the Faculty of Law
of the TU Dresden and wrote her doctoral thesis on "Refugees: Protection and Defence
in the Enlarged EU".The thesis analyses the effects of the
political process of the EU's eastward enlargement and the simultaneous
development of an EU refugee law on legal protection standards in
the old and the new EU member states. The yardsticks here are
international, European and national refugee, fundamental and
human rights. Ruth Weinzierl then worked at the German
Institute for Human Rights (2004-2010), at the parliamentary group
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (2010-2016) and at Diakonie Deutschland. There she
dealt with the topics of migration and flight, internal security,
European fundamental rights and democracy policy. She was active in
political consultancy and published on the aforementioned topics.
In 2018, she was elected chairperson of the staff representation of the
Evangelisches Werk für die Diakonie und Entwicklung in Berlin
and has since been released for this activity.
Publications (selection):
Border Management and Human Rights. A Study of EU Law and the Law of the
Sea (2007) with U. Lisson;
Der Asylkompromiss 1993 auf dem Prüfstand. Expert opinion on the compatibility
of the German regulations on safe EU states and safe
third countries with the European Convention on Human Rights, EU law
and the German Basic Law (2009);
Human Rights Standards in Security Policy. Beiträge zur
rechtsstaatsorientierten Evaluierung von Sicherheitsgesetzen (2010)
Ed. with M. Albers;
German and European fundamental rights in the space of freedom,
security and law. Asylum law as a test case for the
cooperative protection of fundamental rights in Europe, ZAR 8-2010;
Asylum procedure counselling in Germany - On the current debate on
strengthening and standards of independent counselling services, Asylmagazin
7-8/2017.