Isabel Kienzle

Isabel Kienzle is a research assistant in the Department of Migration Law and Human Rights under Prof. Dr. Grażyna Baranowska. She studied law at the University of Freiburg and at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and completed additional training in international, European, and foreign law. From 2019 to 2021, she was a legal clerk at the Munich I Regional Court, working, among other places, at a law firm specializing in immigration law and for the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin. From 2022 to 2024, she worked in the Department of Public Law, Migration Law, and Human Rights under Prof. Dr. Anuscheh Farahat, LL.M. (Berkeley).

Her research focuses on national and international migration law, the protection of human rights in the context of border regimes, and the law of evidence before human rights institutions. In 2024, her research project was awarded the Margarete Berent Prize by the Faculty of Law and Economics at FAU. Her dissertation project bears the working title “Evidence in International Human Rights Adjudication on Pushbacks at European Borders.”