Both the Department of Law and the Department of Political Science offer various courses on the subject of human rights.
Master Human Rights
Update: New Program Regulations for the M.A. Human Rights from Winter Semester 2026/27.
The interdisciplinary, English-taught M.A. in Human Rights is aimed at national and international applicants with a Bachelor’s degree in the legal sciences, social sciences or humanities, and a passion for human rights, ideally rooted in previous experience in that area.
Detailed information on the program, application procedure, and lecturers can be found on the program’s website.
Human Rights Clinic
The CHREN Human Rights Clinic is an initiative launched by the Chair for Public Law, Public International Law and Human Rights (Professor Dr. Dr. Patricia Wiater) and the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) in the winter semester 2024. It continues the work of the former FAU Human Rights Clinic and of the former Human Rights & Business Clinic.
The Clinic is an innovative teaching format that offers talented students the opportunity to develop their skills by working on real-life cases and projects in International Human Rights Law. Under the supervision of experts from human rights practice and human rights researchers at FAU, students will conduct research and provide high-quality legal advice to lawyers, NGOs, and other partners from legal practice.
Human Rights and Business Clinic
The FAU Human Rights and Business Clinic (HRB Clinic) brings together students and academics at FAU with partner organizations to work on applied research projects. Led by doctoral researchers of the International Doctorate Programme “Business and Human Rights: Governance Challenges in a Complex World,” the Clinic serves the dual function of helping students harness research skills to deliver timely and impactful projects in partnership with an external organization and provides academic research capacities to the partner organization. By bringing academia and practice closer together, the Clinic aims to deliver mutually beneficial and impact-oriented research.
FAU Human Rights Talks
The “FAU Human Rights Talks” are an innovative teaching format that Professor Wiater has been offering since the 2019 summer semester. In the talks, the participants discuss current issues of fundamental and human rights protection from different perspectives.
Depending on the topic, the Human Rights Talks are held in English or German.
The Human Rights Talks are open to law students of all study phases, students of the Master’s program Human Rights, Ersamus students, and interested students of other subjects.
Further information can be found on the homepage of our CHREN Member Prof. Dr. Dr. Patricia Wiater.
