Mia Krieghofer

Mia is a PhD candidate at the chair of Prof. Anuscheh Farahat in Public Law in European Context at the University of Vienna. In her research, she focuses on international human rights law, Austrian migration and asylum law, and, more specifically, on the adoption of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) in Austrian constitutional law. Before, she was working as a legal adviser at the Vienna-based NGO ‘Asyl in Not’, as a research assistant at the human rights institute ‘Wiener Forum für Demokratie und Menschenrechte’ and as an administrative trainee at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Lisa Steurer

Lisa Steurer has been a university assistant (prae doc) at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law since April 2024. Previously, she completed her court practice at the Higher Regional Court of Vienna and worked as a research assistant at the Administrative Court.

During her studies at the University of Salzburg, she worked as a project and study assistant at the Department of Public Law and at the Austrian Institute for Human Rights. Her research interests include in particular Austrian and European migration law as well as administrative procedural law.

Her dissertation deals with the solidarity mechanism of the Asylum and Migration Management Regulation, which was amended as part of the CEAS reform.

Lisa Steurer is a member of the doctoral student network of the Vienna Center for Migration & Law (VCML).