Beate Rudolf

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Rudolf in May 2013

Beate Rudolf (born June 12, 1964 in Cologne ) has been director of the German Institute for Human Rights since January 1, 2010 .

Life and work

Rudolf studied from 1983 to 1989 at the University of Bonn and Geneva and passed her first state examination in law with distinction. During this time she received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . From 1990 she worked for three years as a research assistant at the Institute for Public International Law at the University of Bonn. In 1992 she completed her second state examination with distinction. She did her legal clerkship in the Directorate for Human Rights of the Council of Europe . From 1994 to 2000 she taught public law , foreign public law as well as international law and European law at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , where she received her doctorate in 1999. A year later she received the Lise Meitner scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 2003 to 2010 she worked at the Free University of Berlin , where she taught public law and equality law as a junior professor . In the Collaborative Research Center “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” she headed the project “International Law Requirements for Governance in Weak and Failing States ”. She was a member of the European Commission's network of legal experts on gender equality. In 2016, she was elected chairwoman of the World Association of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) for three years . In 2017 she was awarded the Margherita von Brentano Prize “for her longstanding academic and socio-political work in the field of human rights and, in particular, women's rights”.

Her main research interests include fundamental and human rights as well as the characteristics of the form of government under international law, European law and German constitutional law .

Volunteering

Rudolf was Vice President of the European Women Lawyers Association . She is a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics .

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Individual evidence

  1. Collaborative Research Center 700: Prof. Dr. Beate Rudolf. Free University of Berlin, July 14, 2010, archived from the original on September 29, 2011 ; accessed on April 17, 2020 . }
  2. German Institute for Human Rights: What is Inclusion? 16 personal answers , p. 39, December 2012.
  3. Awarding of the Margherita von Brentano Prize 2017. Press release from Freie Universität Berlin, June 26, 2017, accessed on April 17, 2020 .
  4. German Institute for Human Rights: Prof. Dr. Beate Rudolf takes up her position as director of the German Institute for Human Rights on January 1st (with picture). In: press portal. December 29, 2009, accessed April 17, 2020 .
  5. ^ Vice President Beate Rudolf. In: EWLA.org. 2009, archived from the original on January 10, 2014 ; accessed on April 17, 2020 (English).
  6. Individuals. In: ZdK.de. Retrieved April 17, 2020 .