Jens Theilen

About/Bio

Jens T. Theilen is a post-doctoral researcher (Habilitand) at Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg. Their work focuses on international law, human rights, citizenship and migration law, and critical legal theory. They were a co-principal investigator of the project “Framing Reality and Normativity in European Human Rights Law: Climate Change, Migration, and Authoritarianism”.

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Migration in Times of Fascization

In May 2025, the infamous “letter of the nine” was published. In it, the governments of nine European states laid out their vision of various anti-migrant policies and called for “a new and open minded [sic.] conversation about the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights”. The case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR),…

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