Karina Theurer
Lawyer
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Berlin (Germany)
Karina Theurer is the director of the ECCHR Institute for Legal Intervention, where she reassesses German colonial crimes from a decolonial perspective. Her anthology of decolonial legal criticism and practice was published in 2020 by Nomos and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education after she’d curated a symposium on this subject at Berlin’s Akademie der Künste in 2019.
Before that, she taught at Berlin’s Humboldt University, where she coordinated the interdisciplinary Humboldt Human Rights Law Clinic from 2011 to 2019. She also worked as a research assistant in Public Law and Gender Studies at HU between 2010 and 2018. Theurer teaches international law, feminist and decolonial legal criticism and human rights enforcement at various universities. She studied law in Heidelberg, Strasbourg, Paris and Berlin, and was distinguished for her work in international law in 2008.
In addition to her law degree, she holds an MA in interdisciplinary Latin American studies from the Freie Universität Berlin. She founded the bilingual literary magazine alba.lateinamerika lesen and served as its editor for ten years. She translates poetry from Spanish into German, most recently the collection Manglares by Tomás González.
Before that, she taught at Berlin’s Humboldt University, where she coordinated the interdisciplinary Humboldt Human Rights Law Clinic from 2011 to 2019. She also worked as a research assistant in Public Law and Gender Studies at HU between 2010 and 2018. Theurer teaches international law, feminist and decolonial legal criticism and human rights enforcement at various universities. She studied law in Heidelberg, Strasbourg, Paris and Berlin, and was distinguished for her work in international law in 2008.
In addition to her law degree, she holds an MA in interdisciplinary Latin American studies from the Freie Universität Berlin. She founded the bilingual literary magazine alba.lateinamerika lesen and served as its editor for ten years. She translates poetry from Spanish into German, most recently the collection Manglares by Tomás González.