Transforming Human Rights

The Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights” seeks to revisit the potential of human rights as a universalistic framework for addressing fundamental changes that shape our times in political, economic, social, ecological and technological contexts.

Die Straße der Menschenrechte. Menschen laufen an den Säulen vorbei, die so hoch wie die Gebäude daneben sind

Research
Multi- and interdisciplinary research as well as transdisciplinary approaches involving practitioners in order to innovate human rights scholarship.
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Our Team
Our interdisciplinary team brings together researchers from the fields of law, political science, philosophy, anthropology, human geography, history, computer sciences, management studies, and education. Together with four participating institutions in Germany – the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, the German Institute for Human Rights, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, the Max Planck Institute […]Our interdisciplinary team brings together researchers from the fields of law, political science, philosophy, anthropology, human geography, history, computer sciences, management studies, and education. Together with four participating institutions in Germany – the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, the German Institute for Human Rights, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, the Max Planck Institute […]
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Work for the Cluster
Current job postings Working at FAU The Cluster will be hosted by the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Established in 1743, it is one of the largest universities in Germany, with approximately 40,000 students, over 600 professors and around 16,000 members of staff. It’s also the only university in Germany with an established institutional focus on human […]
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Sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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