New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Esra Demir-Gürsel
Dr. Esra Demir-Gürsel is currently a senior researcher and one of the principal investigators of the Frames Project at the Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights. Her research concentrates on the Council of Europe system for the protection of human rights, and the case law and interpretative tools of the European Court of Human Rights. She draws on political theory and history to trace and understand the limits of human rights law. In her current research, she investigates how authoritarianism, migration, and climate change are framed in the practices and discourses of the Council of Europe organs.
Before joining the Hertie School, Dr. Demir-Gürsel was a Georg Forster postdoctoral fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a visiting postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. She earned her PhD in Public Law from Marmara University and holds an LLM degree in Public Law from Istanbul University, as well as an MA degree in Human Rights from the University of Essex.