Jonathan Kießling was a Doctoral Researcher at FAU from 2021-2026, supervised by Prof. Dr. Anuscheh Farahat, LL.M. (Berkeley). His dissertation titled “The Human Right to a Procedure at European Borders – The Principle of Non-Refoulement and the Prohibition of Collective Expulsion under the ECHR between Substantive and Procedural Protection” was defended in February 2026 and awarded the grade summa cum laude.

CV:

• Since 2026:  Legal Trainee (Rechtsreferendar) at the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg (OLG Nürnberg)
• 2024-2025: Research Associate at the CHREN, Coordinator of the CHREN Human Rights Clinic
• 2021-2024: Research Associate at the Chair for Public Law, Migration Law and Human Rights (Prof. Dr. Anuscheh Farahat), Coordinator and Supervisor of the FAU Human Rights Clinic
• 2014-2021: Law Studies at University of Bayreuth (Germany) and University of Tartu (Estonia), specialization in “Human Rights: History, Contexts, Universalisation”

Recent Publications:

• Farahat, A./Kießling J., Von der staatlichen Souveränität zu den Menschenrechten – und zurück? Völkerrechtliche Perspektiven auf Migration am Beispiel des Kollektivausweisungsverbots der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention“, ZaöRV 85 (2025), 363-397, https://doi.org/10.17104/0044-2348-2025-2-363
• Kienzle, I./Kiessling, J., Evidently Unlawful, Yet Difficult to Evidence: M.A. and Z.R. v. Cyprus Advances Stasbourg’s Case Law on Pushbacks”, Strasbourg Observers (2024), https://strasbourgobservers.com/2024/10/22/evidently-unlawful-yet-difficult-to-evidence-m-a-and-z-r-v-cyprus-advances-strasbourgs-case-law-on-pushbacks/