Ricarda Rösch, LL.M.

Ricarda Rösch absolvierte den LLB-Studiengang „Comparative and European Law“ an der Hanse Law School Bremen/ Oldenburg. Während des Studiums verbrachte sie ein Jahr an der Université Montpellier I. Außerdem arbeitete sie als studentische Mitarbeiterin am Zentrum für Europäische Rechtspolitik mit und absolvierte ein Praktikum an der deutschen Botschaft in Madagaskar. 

Im Anschluss erlangte sie einen LLM in Völkerrecht von der School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). Im Rahmen ihres Masters beschäftigte sie sich vor allem mit Menschenrechten aus einer Gendersperspektive, Menschenrechten im global Süden und dem so genannten „humanitären“ Recht. Ihre Masterarbeit behandelte die Frage nach dem emanzipatorischen Potential von Menschenrechten für den globalen Süden am Beispiel des in der Banjul Charter enthaltenen Rechts auf eine gesunde Umwelt und dessen Schlagkraft gegenüber multinationalen Unternehmen. 2016 nahm sie an der Summer School der University of Essex zum Thema Menschenrechtsmethoden teil. Sie promoviert aus einer Genderperspektive zum Recht auf Freie, Frühzeitige und Informierte Zustimmung (FPIC) im subsaharischen Afrika. Seit März 2017 ist sie Promotionsstipendiatin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. 2017 und 2018 forschte sie mehrere Monate am Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation und in einem USAID-finanzierten Gemeinschaftswaldprojekt in Liberia.

 

Ricarda Roesch obtained an LLB in „Comparative and European Law“ from the Hanse Law School in Bremen and Oldenburg. During her undergraduate studies, she spent one year at the University of Montpellier, where she focussed on public international and international human rights law. Moreover, she worked as a student research assistant at the Centre for European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen and interned at the German Embassy in Madagascar for a few months. 

Subsequently, she did an LLM in „International Law“ at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), one of the constituent colleges of the University of London. The focus of her postgraduate studies was on human rights from a gender and Third World perspective, as well as on the law of the use of force and the law of armed conflict. She wrote her master’s dissertation about the „Emancipatory Potential of Human Rights for the Third World: The Banjul Charter, Multinational Corporations and the Right to a Healthy Environment“. In 2016, she participated in the University of Essex‘ summer school on human rights methods. Her PhD research focusses on the gender impact of the right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) in sub-Saharan Africa. Since March 2017, her PhD is funded by the Heinrich-Böll Foundation. In 2017 and 2018, she spent several months as a visiting researcher at the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation and in a USAID-funded community forest project in Liberia. 

Interests: Legal anthropology, Gender and Law, Human Rights Law

• Ricarda Roesch ‘Under the Disguise of Participation: Community Forestry as a New Form of the Land Rush in Liberia’, in Logan Cochrane and Nathan Andrews (eds.): The Land Rush in Africa: A Decade after the Spike (forthcoming)
• Ricarda Roesch ‘A New Era of Customary Property Rights? – Liberia’s Land and Forest Legislation in Light of the Indigenous Right to Self-Determination’ (2019) 52 World Comparative Law 439-462
• Markus Krajewski, Isabel Feichtner, Ricarda Roesch (eds.): Human Rights in the Extractive Industries: Transparency, Participation, Resistance (Springer University Press: 2019)
• Ricarda Roesch ‘Learning from Anthropology: Realizing a Critical Race Approach to (International) Law’ Voelkerrechtsblog (12 February 2018)
• Ricarda Roesch ‘Indigenousness and Peoples’ Rights in the African Human Rights System: Situating the Ogiek Judgement of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (2017) 50 Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America 242-258
• Ricarda Roesch ‚The Ogiek Case of the African Court on Human and Peoples‘ Rights: Not So Much News After All?‘ EJIL: Talk (16 June 2017)
• Ricarda Roesch ‚The Story of a Legal Transplant: the Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent in sub-Saharan Africa‘ (2016) 16 African Human Rights Law Journal 505-531
• Ricarda Roesch ‚Thinking Globally, Acting Regionally: Towards the Regionalization of International Criminal Law‘ Voelkerrechtsblog (27. Mai 2016)
• Ricarda Roesch ‚Françafrique and the Prohibition of the Use of Force‘ (2015) 7 Amsterdam Law Forum 25-35
• Ricarda Roesch et al ‚The Deficiencies of UNHCR’s RSD Procedure: The Case of Choucha Refugee Camp in Tunisia‘ (2014) 4 Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration 46-50