Hannah Zaruchas is a PhD candidate in law at Humboldt University Berlin and a research fellow at the Graduate School 'Dynamic Integration'. She is interested in European human rights law, EU migration law, political theory of migration, human rights theory and critical legal theory.
Her PhD explores admission claims of non-nationals in European human rights law through the lens of a tension inscribed into human rights law. Namely, it attributes rights based on personhood but relies on bounded political communities and institutions to realise and legitimise those rights. Through an analysis of legal arguments about admission, she develops an account of how the ECtHR dissolves this tension and ultimately how human rights law draws its own boundaries.
Hannah previously studied law at Humboldt University Berlin and King's College London and obtained a first legal state exam. She has worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Public Law and Jurisprudence at Humboldt University Berlin and conducted visiting fellowships at the European University Institute and the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.
During her visit to the ACMRL in March and April 2025, she will research the concept of jurisdiction in European human rights law.
We’re excited to have Hannah with us and look forward to exchanging ideas and knowledge during her time as a visiting researcher.
