Prof. Dr. Grazyna Baranowska

Since 2024, Professor Dr Grażyna Baranowska has held the Chair of Migration Law and Human Rights at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Her research focuses on missing persons, human rights violations at borders, and memory laws.

Prior to that, she was a senior researcher at the Center for Fundamental Rights at Hertie School, where she led a project on missing migrants funded by the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and worked as an assistant professor at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the past, she also worked on the MEMOCRACY project (2021–2024), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, which examines the intersection of memory laws and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as on the EU-funded project “Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective” (2016–2019).

In addition to her academic work, she served as a policy advisor at the German Institute for Human Rights and contributed to the drafting of the General Comment on Enforced Disappearances and Migration for the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances. In 2022, she was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as an independent expert to the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.