Lena Riemer

Dr. Lena Riemer is an Assistant Professor of Law at Central European University in Vienna, Austria focusing on human rights, migration, asylum and climate mobility.

Her Ph.D. research at Freie Universität Berlin focused on the prohibition of collective expulsion in the international, African, European and Inter-American human rights systems. In addition to her Ph.D., Lena holds a law degree from Humboldt University Berlin and an LL.M. from Yale Law School. She also studied at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.

Her professional experience includes working for various civil society organizations on strategic human rights litigation in Mexico and Colombia and the International Organization for Migration on climate change adaptation. Previously, she worked for the United Nations High Commissioner in Germany and as a research and teaching assistant at Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität Berlin, and Yale Law School.