Franziska Fluhr

Biography

Franziska Fluhr is a Research Officer at Essex Law School. She mainly works on the project “Cumulative Civilian Harm in War: Addressing the Hidden Human Toll of the Law's Blind Spot” which is based at the Essex Armed Conflict and Crisis Hub. The project investigates how international law currently fails to account for the cumulative impact of military actions resulting from multiple attacks. Previously, she was a Research Officer on the project “Survivors of Modern Slavery in Prisons: The Blind Spot of the UK Anti-Slavery Regime”. Franziska’s main research interests lie in how different legal regimes offer protection to people directly and indirectly affected by armed conflict and other crises, including international humanitarian law, human rights law, and refugee law. She is interested in how these rights can be enforced and how duty bearers can be hold responsible, including through international criminal law and the law of international responsibility. Before joining Essex Law School, Franziska worked at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, the European Parliament, Human Rights Watch, and grassroots non-governmental organisations promoting the human rights of migrants at the European external borders and within Europe. She was also a delegate to the second Youth Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. During her LLM at Essex Law School, she was a student researcher in the Essex Human Rights Centre’s Arbitrary Detention Redress Unit in collaboration with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. In this context, she assessed submissions to the working group and researched contemporary trends and thematic issues relating to the arbitrary deprivation of people’s liberty in different contexts around the world. Franziska holds an LLM in International Humanitarian Law from the University of Essex and completed her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy & Economics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut, Lebanon. She also completed a United Nations Staff Officer Course (Peace Operations) at the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College.

Qualifications

• LLM International Humanitarian Law University of Essex,

• BA Philosophy & Economics University of Bayreuth,