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Research Interests
Asylum law, public law, European law, human rights law, law and anthropology
Research Areas
Germany, Europe
Profile
Niklas Cuno is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Law & Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, affiliated with the Cultural and Religious Diversity under State Law across Europe (CUREDI) research group.
He holds a degree in law with a specialization in migration law from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. During his time there, he worked as a student assistant at the Chair of Public Law and the associated Research Unit for Migration Law under Prof. Dr. Winfried Kluth. He conducts his doctoral research in the field of asylum law.
Why Law & Anthropology?
By its very nature, asylum law deals with people from different cultural and social backgrounds. Anthropological perspectives enable authorities and courts to better understand the realities of the lives of people with migration histories and help to make legal decisions both more sensitive to cultural differences and more sustainable. My aim is therefore to make anthropological perspectives more visible in the field of asylum law.