{"id":1434,"date":"2026-06-22T13:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/?page_id=1434"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:24:55","slug":"dr-caroline-omari-lichuma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/en\/dr-caroline-omari-lichuma\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Caroline Omari Lichuma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Postdoctoral Researcher<\/strong> <strong>and Coordinator of the  Research Innovation Hub<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contact: <a href=\"mailto:caroline.lichuma@uni.fau\">caroline.lichuma@uni.fau<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/de.linkedin.com\/in\/caroline-lichuma-6b26581b5\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:85% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/files\/2026\/05\/Lichuma-2-1-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-894 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/files\/2026\/05\/Lichuma-2-1-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/files\/2026\/05\/Lichuma-2-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/files\/2026\/05\/Lichuma-2-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/files\/2026\/05\/Lichuma-2-1.jpg 853w\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Short Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0799-7651<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caroline is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen Nuremberg (CHREN). Her current research critically analyzes temporality in human rights law with a specific focus on fragmented economic globalization and planetary environmental crises. She received her PhD in International Human Rights Law (Summa cum laude) from the Georg-August University of G\u00f6ttingen in Germany (DAAD Scholar), her LLM in Public International from the New York University( Dean Graduate Merit Scholar) and her LLB from the University of Nairobi. Caroline is a co-rapporteur of the International Law Association&#8217;s Business and Human Rights Committee and she co-edits the Business and Human Rights Journal blog.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rrze-elements-collapsibles \"><div class=\"accordion\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rrze-elements-collapse \"><div class=\"accordion-group \"><h2 class=\"accordion-heading\"><button class=\"accordion-toggle\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-name=\"research-project-at-transforming-human-rights\" data-href=\"#research-project-at-transforming-human-rights\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"research-project-at-transforming-human-rights-section\" id=\"research-project-at-transforming-human-rights\" data-media-accordion-image-id=\"0\" data-media-accordion-image-url=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-alt=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-caption=\"\">Research Project at Transforming Human Rights<\/button><\/h2><div id=\"research-project-at-transforming-human-rights-section\" class=\"accordion-body \" aria-labelledby=\"research-project-at-transforming-human-rights\" role=\"region\" name=\"research-project-at-transforming-human-rights\"><div class=\"accordion-inner clearfix\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caroline\u2019s research project hopes to contribute to the (re)conceptualization of our understanding of temporalized human rights and its implications for the realization of human rights in an era of planetary environmental crises and fragmented economic globalization. The intention is to critically analyze how human rights norms, institutions, and practices can or ought to be reimagined or transformed in the face of, slow violence such as <em>inter alia<\/em>, climate crisis and a fracturing global economic order. The ultimate goal is, firstly: to develop an innovative understanding of human rights that accounts for time and temporality (past, present, and future), i.e. temporalized human rights, and secondly: to deploy this temporal lens to an analysis of vulnerabilities of workers in GVCs and communities under climate stress, and to the human rights impacts of the fragmented landscape of economic globalization. <\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rrze-elements-collapse \"><div class=\"accordion-group \"><h2 class=\"accordion-heading\"><button class=\"accordion-toggle\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-name=\"publications\" data-href=\"#publications\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"publications-section\" id=\"publications\" data-media-accordion-image-id=\"0\" data-media-accordion-image-url=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-alt=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-caption=\"\">Publications<\/button><\/h2><div id=\"publications-section\" class=\"accordion-body \" aria-labelledby=\"publications\" role=\"region\" name=\"publications\"><div class=\"accordion-inner clearfix\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Journal Articles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>September 2022, \u201cBetween Universalism and Cultural Relativism: The Dilemma of Consent to Female Genital Mutilation in the Tatu Kamau Case\u201d Kabarak Journal of Law and Ethics Volume 6 Issue No. 1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 2023, \u201cInternational Investment Law Reforms and the Draft Business and Human Rights Treaty: the More Things Change the More They Remain the Same?\u201d Journal of World Investment and Trade Volume 24 Issue 4-5.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 2024, \u201cMandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Laws Caught Between Rituals and Ritualism: The Forms and Limits of Business Authority of in the Global Governance of Business and Human Rights\u201d Business and Human Rights Journal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 2024, \u201cRisky Business: Critical Reflections on the Sources of Information for Risk Analysis Under the German Supply Chain Law \u2013 Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (LkSG) and the Ramifications for Global South Stakeholders\u201d World Comparative Law (WCL) Journal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Book Chapters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Caroline Lichuma, \u201cLuxembourgish Civil Society Mobilizing for Corporate Accountability: Prospects and Challenges for Law Making From Below?\u201d in Raluca Grosescu and John G. Dale (eds) <em>Re-envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Civil Society and Transnational Action<\/em> (Springer, November 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Caroline Lichuma, \u201cKoloniale Kontinuit\u00e4ten und Normbildung in Wirtschaft und Menschenrechten: Eine TWAIL-Analyse des Lieferkettensorgfaltspflicht- gesetzes (LkSG) in <em>Dekoloniale Rechtswissenschaft und Praxis<\/em> (April 2024).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rrze-elements-collapse \"><div class=\"accordion-group \"><h2 class=\"accordion-heading\"><button class=\"accordion-toggle\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-name=\"awards-or-notable-achievements\" data-href=\"#awards-or-notable-achievements\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"awards-or-notable-achievements-section\" id=\"awards-or-notable-achievements\" data-media-accordion-image-id=\"0\" data-media-accordion-image-url=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-alt=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-caption=\"\">Awards or Notable Achievements<\/button><\/h2><div id=\"awards-or-notable-achievements-section\" class=\"accordion-body \" aria-labelledby=\"awards-or-notable-achievements\" role=\"region\" name=\"awards-or-notable-achievements\"><div class=\"accordion-inner clearfix\">\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Georg-August Universit\u00e4t G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany: PhD in Public International Law: Human Rights, June 2023 (Summa Cum Laude), DAAD Scholar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University of G\u00f6ttingen &amp; DAAD Award for Outstanding Foreign Student, 2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faculty Prize for Best PhD Thesis, July 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New York University School Of Law, New York, Ny &#8211; Dean Graduate Merit Scholar 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University Of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya &#8211; Best 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Year Student, 2009<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fifth best student&nbsp; nationally&nbsp; Certified Public Accountant Part l sec 1, June 2005; Kenya Accountants and Secretaries National Examinations Board (KASNEB) Exams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Best student nationally in CPA Part II Sec 3, June 2006; KASNEB Exams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rrze-elements-collapse \"><div class=\"accordion-group \"><h2 class=\"accordion-heading\"><button class=\"accordion-toggle\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-name=\"media-appearances\" data-href=\"#media-appearances\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"media-appearances-section\" id=\"media-appearances\" data-media-accordion-image-id=\"0\" data-media-accordion-image-url=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-alt=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-caption=\"\">Media Appearances<\/button><\/h2><div id=\"media-appearances-section\" class=\"accordion-body \" aria-labelledby=\"media-appearances\" role=\"region\" name=\"media-appearances\"><div class=\"accordion-inner clearfix\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.research-in-bavaria.de\/human-rights-research\/\">https:\/\/www.research-in-bavaria.de\/human-rights-research\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XGZY6cKqbGw&amp;list=PLwIkkaA_TTo4GFy4T5hcoQSeNUm7lr_mY&amp;index=8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XGZY6cKqbGw&amp;list=PLwlkkaA_TTo4GFy4T5hcoQSeNUm7lr_mY&amp;index=\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webtv.un.org\/en\/asset\/k1r\/k1r0i078li\">https:\/\/webtv.un.org\/en\/asset\/k1r\/k1r0i078li<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postdoctoral Researcher and Coordinator of the Research Innovation Hub Contact: caroline.lichuma@uni.fau LinkedIn Short Bio ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0799-7651 Caroline is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen Nuremberg (CHREN). Her current research critically analyzes temporality in human rights law with a specific focus on fragmented economic globalization and planetary environmental crises. 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