Prof. Dr. Dr. Patricia Wiater

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Patricia Wiater holds the Chair of Public Law, Public International Law, and Human Rights at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). She is a member of the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) and the Director of the CHREN Human Rights Clinic. Before joining academia, Patricia Wiater was admitted to the German bar and worked as a government official for the Bavarian Ministry of Science and the Arts in the field of European Union law.

As part of a cotutelle de thèse, Patricia Wiater completed a Franco-German doctorate in law at the Universities of Strasbourg and Leipzig, focusing on cultural pluralism and European human rights protection. She subsequently obtained a doctorate in political science from the University of Freiburg with a dissertation on the protection of critical infrastructure. Her Habilitation thesis, completed at LMU Munich, examined access to justice in international economic law and the procedural empowerment of natural and legal persons.

Patricia Wiater’s research and teaching cover constitutional law, public international law, European Union law, and legal didactics. Within her research on general international law, she has a particular interest in the law of state immunity. Her expertise in human rights spans a broad range of topics, from traditional liberal freedoms to contemporary debates on the right to a healthy environment and the Rights of Nature. Another key focus of her research lies in security law and security policy, particularly in the context of counterterrorism measures, sanctions, and the protection of critical infrastructure. Furthermore, her expertise extends to regional economic integration systems, WTO law, and investment protection law, with a current emphasis on the intersection between business and human rights, as well as sports and human rights.

Patricia Wiater is one of the coordinators of the International Doctorate Programme on Business and Human Rights and a member of the Human Rights Advisory Board of the German Olympic Sports Confederation. Additionally, she is a co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Rechtswissenschaft.