Jonathan Kießling is a research associate and doctoral candidate in Prof. Farahat’s team at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He studied law in Bayreuth and Tartu, with a focus on international law and human rights. At the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he coordinates and supervises the FAU Human Rights Clinic. His own research focuses on the intersection of migration law and human rights law, and the jurisprudence of the European of Court of Human Rights on migrants’ rights, with particular regard to questions of access to international protection and the illegality of collective expulsions.