Jürgen Bast (Gießen)

Historicum Room K201, Schellingstr. 12, Munich

Colloquium “Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism”

The KFG colloquium concludes with its final session on Wednesday, February 5th, with a lecture by Jürgen Bast on "The Discovery of Migrants' Human Rights in the Long 1990s: A Legal History."

Jürgen Bast is Professor of Public Law and European Law at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU), Germany. Before joining the JLU in 2013, Jürgen Bast was a Full Professor of International and European Law at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Jürgen has studied sociology and law in Frankfurt and Berlin. He holds a PhD (Dr. jur.) and a habilitation in law, both awarded by Goethe University Frankfurt.
Jürgen’s main research project is about “Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies” (MeDiMi). MeDiMi is an interdisciplinary research group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), comprising ten sub-projects at six academic institutions in Germany and the Netherlands. Jürgen is the spokesperson of MeDiMi, and Principal Investigator of the legal research project “Territoriality, Public Authority, and Human Rights: the EU’s Border Regimes”.
MeDiMi studies the scope, forms, and consequences of the “humanrightization” of discursive practices in migration-related conflicts. It analyzes the manifold references to human rights in legal, political, and everyday contexts. On this empirical basis, MeDiMi aims to develop a practice theory of human rights in contemporary migration societies.

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