EnRoL! -

The Human Rights &

Rule of Law Speaker Series

Founded in 2021, EnRoL! - The Human Rights & Rule of Law Speaker Series is a global webinar series for everyone interested in the latest developments in human rights and the rule of law. We celebrate female role models - practitioners and scholars - who discuss with us human rights and rule of law matters from around the world.Women being still significantly underrepresented in senior leadership, our speaker series features women from across the globe to initiate dialogue between leading and emerging academics, legal professionals and activists, and to inspire the next generation of women to consider a career in human rights.

Next Event

Date & time: 25 September 2025, 4-5 PM (CEST).

Topic: Conflict, Survivors' Rights and the Role of International Organisations

Our guests: Dr. Ingrid Roestenburg (Institute for Justice and Reconciliation) & Mary Goretti Byamugisha (University of Salerno)

Chair & Discussant: Dr. Stefanie Lemke & Dr. Qiao Cong-rui.

Registration is free and is now open, here.

Contact: If you have any queries, please write to contact@stefanie-lemke.com.

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LEGAL EMPOWERMENT, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

With Dr. Julieta Marotta, Assistant Professor, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University / United Nations University, & Dr. Ronagh McQuigg, Reader, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN ASIA: LOVE, CONSENT AND TECHNOLOGY

With Dr. Rama Srinivasan, Anthropologist and Author of ‘Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India’, & Dr. Sou Hee Yang, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Waseda University in Tokyo.

HUMAN RIGHTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE LAWYERING IN A HOSTILE CLIMATE

With Dr. Hilary Sommerlad, Professor and Chair of Law and Social Justice at University of Leeds, UK, & Sophie de Graaf, Executive Director of Lawyers for Lawyers.

Past events

18.06.2025:

TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL

With Filipa Alves Raimundo, Associate Professor, ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, & Dr. Fiammetta Bonfigli, Postdoctoral Researcher and University Assistant, University of Vienna, and Collaborating Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. More about the event, here.

18.02.2025:

LEGAL EMPOWERMENT, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

With Dr. Julieta Marotta, Assistant Professor, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University / United Nations University, & Dr. Ronagh McQuigg, Reader, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast. More about the event, here.

04.12.2024:

COURTS AND THE PROTECTION OF DEMOCRACY IN EXCEPTIONAL TIMES

With Dr. Andrea Castagnola, Visiting Professor, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and Global Fellow, Chr. Michelsen Institute, & Dr. Merike Ristikivi, Associate Professor, University of Tartu. More about the event, here.

02.10.2024:

ACCESS TO JUSTICE: OMBUDS INSTITUTIONS, TECHNOLOGY AND BARRIERS TO LITIGATING CASES BEFORE THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

With FH-Prof. Mag. Dr. Julia Dahlvik, MA, University of Applied Science Vienna Campus, & Dr. Ezgi Özlü, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Strasbourg. More about the event, here.

02.11.2023:

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: WOMEN IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION

With Prof. Dr. Beate Rudolf, Director of German Institute for Human Rights, & Ulrike Schultz, past-president of Research Committee on Sociology of Law. More about the event, here.

11.10.2023:

WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN ASIA: LOVE, CONSENT AND TECHNOLOGY

With Dr. Rama Srinivasan, Anthropologist and Author of ‘Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India’, & Dr. Sou Hee Yang, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Waseda University in Tokyo. More about the event, here.

28.03.2023:

GENDER, POLITICS & THE LEGAL PROFESSION

With Prof. Shulamit Almog and Prof. Noya Rimalt, Professors of Law and Founding Co-Directors of The Forum for Gender, Law and Policy, University of Haifa, & Prof. Barbara Giovanna Bello, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy of Law, Tuscia University, and Co-Founder of Italian Network for Countering Hate Speech and Hate Phenomena. More about the event, here.

07.12.2022:

DEFENDING AN ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL: CLIMATE JUSTICE & THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

With Dr. Giada Giacomini, Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law, Florence, & Irene Bonetti and Giovanna Valentim, Human Rights Lawyers acting for The Articulation of Indigenes Peoples of Brazil (APIB), São Paulo. More about the event, here.

12.10.2022:

WE ARE SPYING ON YOU: THE BENEFITS & THE RISKS OF DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE

With Dr. Miriam Saage-Maaß, Legal Director and Head of Business and Human Rights Programme, European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Germany, & Dr. Machiko Kanetake, Associate Professor of Public International Law, Utrecht University, Netherlands. More about the event, here.

21.07.2022:

COMPANIES, HUMAN RIGHTS & THE EU: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

With Dr. Rachel Widdis, Director EMEA, Article One, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, & Lise Smit, Senior Researcher and Director of Human Rights Due Diligence Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), UK. More about the event, here.

04.04.2022:

HUMAN RIGHTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE LAWYERING IN A HOSTILE CLIMATE

With Dr. Hilary Sommerlad, Professor and Chair of Law and Social Justice at University of Leeds, UK, & Sophie de Graaf, Executive Director of Lawyers for Lawyers. More about the event, here.

17.02.2021:

RULE OF LAW IN CENTRAL ASIA

With Dr. Anja Mihr, DAAD Associate Professor at OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, & the Tajik human rights lawyer Farangis Zikriyaeva, Co-Director of Human Rights Matter.

21.10.2021:

RULE OF LAW IN EUROPE AND CHINA

With Mag. Nina Betetto, President of the Council of Europe Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE), & the Chinese attorney Yolanda Chu.