Forschung

Professor Pils‘ scholarship addresses autocratic conceptions and practices of governance, legal and political resistance, transnational repression, and modes of complicity with autocratic wrongs. She has previously worked on human rights defence in China in a variety of contexts, including criminal justice, land and housing rights, freedom of expression and association, and wider issues of access to justice.

Within the framework of her AvH professorship, she will be directing projects to investigate the impacts of global autocratisation on the protection and defence of human rights, as well as human rights’ role in democratic resilience and resistance, drawing on the methodologies and insights of diverse academic disciplines and legal-political settings.