New Visiting Reseacher at MOBILE - Florian Hoffmann
Florian F. Hoffmann is a Professor of Law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, a co-speaker of the UNHCR Cátedra Sérgio Vieira de Mello in Refugee Studies at PUC-Rio and an associate researcher at the Human Rights Center of the Law Department (Núcleo de Direitos Humanos).
Prior to this he was the Franz Haniel Chair of Public Policy (2010-2016) and the director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy (2012-2015) at the University of Erfurt (Germany), a lecturer at Law Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2008-2010), and an assistant professor of law at the PUC-Rio (2003-2008). He holds degrees from the LSE (BSc(Econ)), PUC-Rio (Mestrado em Ciências Jurídicas) and the European University Institute (Doctor of Law).
His work has focused on the interface between law and politics, with his main research areas having been in international law, human rights and (international) legal theory. In particular, he has recently worked in three thematic clusters and on associated topics, notably Human Rights, Development and Equality (with a focus on ´Contestations and Counter-Contestations of Human Rights´ as well as on ´(Social) Rights and/in Development´); Comparative Law and/in the Global South (with focal points on ´Comparative Methodology of/from the Global South´, ´Constitutionalism and Crisis´, and the ´(Legal) Politics of Anti-Corruption´); and on Theorizing (International) Law.
During his stay at MOBILE he will work in a fourth thematic cluster on Global Mobility Law(s) and will, inter alia, seek to sketch out a conceptual framework for (legal) mobility infrastructures and legal infrastructuring processes in the context of environmental displacement in Latin America.