Andreas Ullmann
Research Associate in the collective research group "International Rule of Law"
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
Section Political and Administrative Science
Andreas Johannes Ullmann is a political scientist who teaches and conducts research at the intersection of international relations and international law. His work focuses primarily on the empirical investigation of questions in the areas of human rights, international organizations, the environment, and development. His work has been published in journals such as Review of International Organizations, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and European Journal of International Law. In his doctoral project, he examined state compliance with the individual complaint procedures of the UN human rights treaty bodies. Between 2022 and 2024, he was senior editor of the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (Journal of International Relations) during the editorship of Andrea Liese and Thomas Sommerer. He holds a B.A. in Sociology from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and an M.A. in Political Science with a focus on Comparative Politics and Area Studies from the University of Hamburg.
PUBLICATIONS
"Reconsidering the Costs of Commitment: Learning and State Acceptance of the UN Human Rights Treaties’ Individual Complaint Procedures", The Review of International Organizations (2024): 1-32. (single authorship)
"A Room Full of ‘Views’: Introducing a New Dataset to Explore Compliance with the Decisions of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies’ Individual Complaints Procedures”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 68:2-3(2023): 534-561. (with Andreas von Staden)
“Compliance with UN treaty Body Decisions: A Glass One-Third Full or Two-Thirds Empty?”, Open Global Rights blog entry, www.openglobalrights.org/compliance-UN-treaty-body-decisions/ (2023). (single authorship)
“Seeking Overlap and Redundancy in Human Rights Protection: Reputation, Consistency and the Acceptance of the UN Human Rights Treaties’ Individual Communications Procedures”, The International Journal of Human Rights 26:8 (2022):1476-1502 (with Andreas v. Staden)
“Challenges and Pitfalls in Research on Compliance with the ‘Views’ of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: A Comment on Vera Shikhelman, ‘Implementing Decisions of International Human Rights Institutions’”, European Journal of International Law 31:2 (2020): 693-708. (with Andreas v. Staden)
CONSULTATION HOUR
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