Timeela Manandhar

PhD Candidate, Law School, Ruhr University Bochum

“Handschlag oder Kniefall?, Ein Kommentar zum Revised Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights”, with Pierre Thielbörger, Vökerrechtsblog 2019/8/30, https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/handschlag-oder-kniefall/.

“Bending the Knee or Extending the Hand to Industrial Nations? A Comment on the New Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights”, with Pierre Thielbörger, EJIL_ Talk!, 2019/8/23, https://www.ejiltalk.org/bending-the-knee-or-extending-the-hand-to-industrial-nations-a-comment-on-the-new-draft-treaty-on-business-and-human-rights/. 

“Responsibility to punish, Zur Verantwortung Deutschlands für deutsche IS-Kämpfer“, with Özgen Özdemir, BOFAX No. 518D and Völkerrechtsblog, 2019/3/22, https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/responsibility-to-punish/. 

„Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie und extremer Naturereignisse auf Geflüchtete und Vertriebene“, in: WeltRisikoBericht 2020, Fokus Flucht und Migration, Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft und Ruhr-Universität Bochum – IFHV (Herausg.),  pp. 30-34, available at: https://weltrisikobericht.de/#downloads,

„Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Extreme Natural Events on Refugees and Displaced Persons”, in WorldRiskReport 2020, Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft and Ruhr University Bochum (Eds.), available at: https://weltrisikobericht.de/weltrisikobericht-2021-e/#downloads. 

Gravierende Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Moria erhöhen auch das Katastrophenrisiko“, with Katrin Radtke, Blog of the Centre for Humanitarian Action, 16 December 2020, https://www.chaberlin.org/blog/gravierende-menschenrechtsverletzungen-in-moria-erhoehen-auch-das-katastrophenrisiko/. 

„(Blood) Diamonds are a Company’s Best Friend?, Zu besonderen menschenrechtlichen Sorgfaltspflichten von Unternehmen in Konflikt- und Hochrisikogebieten“, with P. Thielbörger, VerfBlog, 2020/6/12, https://verfassungsblog.de/blood-diamonds-are-a-companys-best-friend/, part of the online Symposium „ Supply Chain Law Made in Germany“.

“Follow the money and see where it goes – Unmasking the EU’s Libya programme”, On the EU’s involvement in human rights violations committed by Libyan actors against migrants”BOFAX No. 551E and 552E as well as Völkerrechtsblog, 2020/5/25, with Rouven Diekjobst https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/follow-the-money-and-see-where-it-goes-unmasking-the-eus-libya-programme/.

“Menschenrechtsverantwortung von Unternehmen – zu den Grenzen von Soft Law und der Notwendigkeit eines Vertrages” (English: “The Human Rights Responsibility of Corporations – the Limits of Soft Law and why a Treaty Is Needed”), in: Humanitäres Völkerrecht / Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Issue 3-4, pp. 261-284.

“Conference: Regional Human Rights Systems from a Comparative Perspective”, with Benedikt Behlert, in: Die Friedens-Warte, Volume 92 (2019), Issue 3-4, pp. 244 – 248. 

“Una-Fjord-able: Why Trump cannot buy Greenland”, with Pierre Thielbörger, BOFAX No. 533E and 534E and Völkerrechtsblog, 2019/8/26, https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/una-fjord-able-why-trump-cannot-buy-greenland/ 

Bochum IHL Clinic Assistant Director 

Research Associate, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV)

Institute for Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Ruhr-University Bochum, Research Associate

„Menschenrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit von Unternehmen in Pandemiezeiten“ (Human Rights Responsibility of Coporations in Times of the Pandemic) at „Die Bewältigung des Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) als Herausforderung an das Völkerrecht, das Verfassungsrecht und das Verwaltungsrecht“ (the Covid-19 Crisis as challenge for international, constitutional and administrative law), hybrid conference, 10. November 2021.

“Quo Vadis Lieferkettengesetz?” – Durchbruch auf dem Weg zu fairem Handel oder zahnloser Papiertieger, lecture at Bochumer Kritische Woche 2021, 29 April 2021, invited by DGB Hochschulgruppe Bochum and Arbeitskreis kritischer Jurist*innen Bochum.

“The United Nations and Resources”, 10^th Young Scholars Research Colloquium of the DGVN e.V. (United Nations Association of Germany), 8^th – 10^th October 2020 at Ruhr-University Bochum, Co-Organizer in collaboration with DGVN e.V. and speaker on “The UN Guiding Principles – Human Rights Due Diligence of Corporations”.

“Corporations, Human Rights and the Pandemic - To What extent is Corporate Responsibility in Times of Pandemics and in Conflict Areas Comparable?”, Online Workshop organized by the ESIL Interest Group on Business and Human Rights on “Business and Human Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic:

Impacts, Responses and Future Implications”, 9 September 2020, with Pierre Thielbörger.

Invited Observer and Commentator at the United Nations (Geneva) for the Fifth session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights of the of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG), 14^th -18^th October 2019.

Expert consultation on the new UN initiative of a “Treaty on Business and Human Rights” at the German Institute for Human Rights.

Conference: ‘The Past, Present and Future of the International Law and Politics of Peace and Armed Conflict’, November 2018, Bochum.

Organisation and Moderation of a panel discussion on legal, political and ethical responsibilities towards refugees, RUB (German Title: „Wir schaffen das! Was müssen wir eigentlich schaffen?

Invited speaker at think tank on the relationship between Citizens and the State, 33. Sinclair-Haus-Gespräch of Herbert Quandt-Stiftung, Bad Homburg (German title “Die Bürger und ihr Staat. Ein Verhältnis am Wendepunkt?“)

Invited speaker in televised talk show on youth unemployment in Europa, Am Punkt Europa, ATV, Vienna (German title: “Jung, arbeitslos, chancenlos – Europas Jugend, eine verlorene Generation?“)

Tutorial in German Criminal Law, Ruhr-University Bochum

Bochum IHL Clinic, NOHA Master, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Bochum

Tutorial in German Organisation Law, Ruhr-University Bochum

Lecture Law and Development, Master of Development Management, Institute of Development Research and Development Policy, Ruhr-University Bochum

Lecture Law and Development, Master of Development Management, South-African German Centre for Development Research, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town

Marjorie Andrea González Ramírez, “The recognition of nature’s legal standing in Colombia and its influence on plaintiff’s perspectives on environmental justice: views on the human-nature relationship and interests to claim for judicial protection”. Mentoring of student’s master thesis for the Master of Arts in Development Management, Ruhr-University Bochum.

Student undertook socio-legal research, the legal analysis was published as “The Judicial Recognition of Nature as a Subject of Rights: An Answer to Tackle Environmental Problems in Colombia and to Broaden the Community that is Granted Justice”, in Die Friedens-Warte, Volume 93 (2020), Issue 1-2, pp. 148-172, available at: https://elibrary.bwv-verlag.de/article/10.35998/fw-2020-0008.