Laura Gorriahn is Research Associate and Coordinator of the Global Justice Clinic. Prior, she held positions at the Humboldt Universität Berlin, the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Scripts” (SCRIPTS), and Freie Universität Berlin. Laura was a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University (Fall 2024) and the European University Institute (Fall-Winter 2022/23). Laura holds an M.A. “Human Rights and Democratisation” from the European Inter-University Centre Venice and the Eric-Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights Helsinki and studied Political Science, History and German Studies at the University of Freiburg and Trinity College Dublin (M.A. equivalent). His research interests include democratic theory, protest, and migration.

• Democratic theory, questions of membership

• Philosophy of migration, critical migration and border studies

• Democracy and law in the transnational sphere

• Human rights in theory and practice

• Social Movements and protest

Editorship:

(2022) Special Issue: Protest and the Democratic Order. In: Democratic Theory 10 (2) (w/ Danniel Gobbi, Daniel Staemmler & Christian Volk). 

(2022) Special Issue: Demokratie und Migration. Konflikte um Migration und Grenzziehungen in der Demokratie [Democracy and Migration]. In: Leviathan—Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft (w/ Julia Glathe).

Journal Articles and other Publications:

(2022): “Protest and the Democratic Order. A Research Perspective (Editorial Introduction)”, in: Democratic Theory 10 (2), S. 1-10 (w/ Danniel Gobbi, Daniel Staemmler & Christian Volk).

 (2022): “Demokratie und Migration. Konflikte um Migration und Grenzziehungen in der Demokratie” [Democracy and Migration] in: Leviathan—Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft, Sonderband 39, pp. 9-25 (w/ Julia Glathe).

 (2022): “Antirassistische Kämpfe und politischer Wandel in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft. Eine Bestandsaufnahme mit Max Czollek, Tahir Della und Naika Foroutan” in: Leviathan—Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft, Sonderband 39, pp. 26-36 (w/ Julia Glathe).

 (2019): “Frauen* in der Politischen Theorie. Eine feministische Kritik am Zustand unserer Disziplin” [Women* in Political Theory. A Feminist Critique], in: Theorieblog 11/2019 (w/ Hannah Riede).

 (2019): “Gesellschaft und Demokratie nach der Migration” [Society and Democracy after Migration], in: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 2019-32(3): pp. 470–474.

 (2018): Review of Heinrich Geiselberger (ed.): Die große Regression. Eine internationale Debatte über die geistige Situation der Zeit, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2017, in: PERIPHERIE 3-2018, pp. 490–492 (w/ Johannes Haaf and Felix Anderl).

 (2018): “Soziale Bewegungen als Korrektiv und Gefahr der Demokratie?” [Social Movements as corrective and threat to democracy], Report on the conference “Frontiers of Democracy” of the German Political Science Association, Sept 2018, Goethe-University Frankfurt, in: Theorieblog 12/2018 (w/ Anton Haffner and Daniel Staemmler).

(2013): “Repräsentation und Partizipation” [Representation and Participation], in: Riescher, Gisela (ed.), Spannungsfelder der Politischen Theorie, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, pp. 68–84.