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Dr. Eleanor Benz, Researcher and Policy Adviser

Dr. iur. Eleanor Benz is a lawyer and has been a researcher and policy adviser at the National CRC Monitoring Mechanism at the German Institute for Human Rights since March 2025. She studied law in Heidelberg and Santiago de Chile, specializing in international law. She then worked as a research assistant at the University of Potsdam, where she also completed her doctorate with a thesis on the advisory function of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She completed her legal clerkship at the Kammergericht Berlin with stations at the Federal Chancellery, in a law firm specialized in public law and at the German Embassy in Accra, Ghana.

Publications

Selection

„The Advisory Function of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights“, Nomos, 1st edition 2024, Nomos eLibrary: The Advisory Function of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
„Internationale Abkommen in der EU-Lieferkettenrichtlinie: Völkervertragsrecht als Bezugspunkt menschenrechtlicher und umweltbezogener Sorgfaltspflichten in der CSDDD“, Umweltbundesamt Texte 170/2024, December 2024 (together with David Krebs), Umweltbundesamt: Internationale Abkommen in der EU-Lieferkettenrichtlinie

Main areas of work

Children’s rights

Dr. Eleanor Benz

Researcher and Policy Adviser

Phone: +4930 259 359 - 461

E-mail: ebenz(at)dimr.de

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