In her PhD thesis, Monika focuses on the question: What is the right to science – legally speaking? She analyzes what exactly constitutes the scope of the right to science and how it can be enforced as a justiciable right. She looks at the aspects of what the right to science entails, to whom it applies, and what the state obligations to implement the right are. Thereby, she argues that the right to science is indeed a justiciable right – despite the assumed invidious position of economic, social and cultural rights.

Monika studied law at the University of Lucerne and the University of Edinburgh. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Her research interests include public international law, international human rights law, constitutional law and migration law.

In parallel to her PhD studies, she works as research associate at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Martina Caroni, LL.M. (Yale). Prior to that, she worked at the legal department of the State Secretariat for Migration. For the academic year 2021/2022 she was one of the four Schindler Junior Scholars, a prestigious programme for the promotion of excellent junior researchers offered by the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

A short project overview of her thesis and her personal profile with her list of publications can be found here.