Jens T. Theilen

Jens is a post-doc at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg. Besides a focus on the theory and practice of human rights, their work spans migration and citizenship law, international law, and critical legal theory.

Symposium
Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

Nothing to See Here

Sué González Hauck Jens T. Theilen

On 12 February 2026, the Tagesschau, the most widely-seen tv news show in Germany, covered the following topics: Trump decides that greenhouse gases don’t endanger public health, the ICE surge...

Interview

On European Human Rights, Frames, and Critique

Esra Demir-Gürsel Jens T. Theilen Daniela Rau

Dear Esra, dear Jens, thank you for accepting the invitation to share insights into your research on the framing and critique of European Human Rights Law with us. You are...

Article

Racialised Climate Justice

Jens T. Theilen

9 April 2024 was a big day for international lawyers. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rendered judgment in three major climate change cases. One of these much-anticipated decisions,...

Symposium
Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?

Locating Progress in the European Convention on Human Rights

Jens T. Theilen

Progress may seem to be a temporal concept. That is certainly how it is usually understood in the literature on progress and international law. Statements of progress are said, for...

Article

The Future of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Human Rights

Jens T. Theilen

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has a long history of adjudicating cases concerning sexual orientation and gender identity. Many of those cases involved the controversial interpretive approach known...