Nina Reiners

Associate Professor - Norwegian Centre for Human Rights

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Background

I am Deputy Head of Department and Head of Research at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR). I joined the Law Faculty as Associate Professor of Human Rights and Social Sciences in 2023. At the Faculty of Law, I am leading the research group Global Challenges to Human Rights. I hold an affiliation as research associate with the Graduate Institute Geneva's Global Governance Centre.

Prior to coming to Oslo, I was a member of the interdisciplinary research group “International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?” at Freie Universität Berlin. I earned my PhD in Political Science from the University of Potsdam, where I also worked as a researcher and lecturer in International Relations. Research and teaching stays brought me to Madrid, San Diego, Geneva and Stockholm.

Academic Interests

My research broadly engages questions related to agency and change in international relations and international law, human rights and global justice. To address them, I enjoy collaborating with colleagues within and beyond my discipline.

Tags: Human Rights, Social Sciences, Socio-Legal Studies, International Law

Book

Reiners, Nina (2022, paperback 2023): Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights, Cambridge University Press.

Peer-reviewed articles

Reiners, Nina (2023): States as bystanders of legal change: Alternative paths for the human rights to water and sanitation in international law. Leiden Journal of International Law, 1-20.

Reiners, Nina (2023): The power of interpersonal relationships: A socio-legal approach to international institutions and human rights advocacy. Review of International Studies, 1-19.

Lesch, Max and Nina Reiners (2023): Informal Human Rights Lawmaking: How Treaty Bodies Use General Comments to Develop International Law. Global Constitutionalism, 1-24, online first.

Reiners, Nina (2022): Self-Agentification by Experts: A Mechanism for Human Rights Lawmaking; Forum The Why and How of Global Governors: Relational Agency in World Politics, with Deloffre, Maryam Z.; Hofferberth, Matthias; Holzscheiter, Anna; Koch, Martin; Lambach, Daniel; Ronit, Kasten. International Studies Review. 24 (4), online first.

Reiners, Nina (2021): Despite or Because of Contestation? How Water became a Human Right. Human Rights Quarterly 43 (2), 329-343.

Fleischer, Julia and Nina Reiners (2021): Connecting International Relations and Public Administration: Toward A Joint Research Agenda for the Study of International Bureaucracy. International Studies Review 23 (4), 1230-1247.

Ratzlaff, Olaf and Nina Reiners (2020): Herausforderungen für Digitales Lehren, Lernen, Leben: Erfahrungen mit dem Hochschul-Hackathon. Hochschulmanagement 2+3, special issue Corona-Pandemie und Hochschulen, 78-83.

Reiners, Nina and Andrea Liese (2015): Nichtstaatliche Akteure in der Menschenrechtspolitik: von Normanwälten über Komplizen zu Infragestellern und Herausforderern [Non-State Actors in International Human Rights]. Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 8 (2), 651-676.

Peer-reviewed chapters

Reiners, Nina (2023): Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions as Change Agents in International Law, in: The Many Paths of Change in International Law, ed. By Nico Krisch and Ezgi Yildiz, Oxford University Press, 89-106 (open access).

Liese, Andrea and Nina Reiners (2019): The Eye of the Beholder? The Contestation of Values and International Law, in: The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?, ed. by Heike Krieger, Georg Nolte and Andreas Zimmermann, Oxford University Press, 335-343.

Editor-reviewed publications

Reiners, Nina (2023): Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in: Handbook of International Organizations, ed. by Katja Freistein, Julia Leininger and Silke Weinlich, de Gruyter.

Reiners, Nina (2022): Watering Down Human Rights? A Healthy Environment for the Rights to Water and Sanitation, in: The Uncertain Future of Human Rights, ed. by The Graduate Institute Geneva, Global Challenges (11).

Reiners, Nina (2022): Internationale Organisationen & NGOs als Wissensakteure, in: Herrschaft und Wissen, ed. by Gunnar Folke Schuppert, Nomos, 241-264.

Reiners, Nina (2021): Wir sind die Vereinten Nationen! Zivilgesellschaft für Menschenrechte und Nachhaltigkeit, in: POLIS 3/2021, 12-15.

Reiners, Nina (2020): Opposites Attract? The World Bank and the United Nations Human Rights Bodies, in: Augenmaß und Leidenschaft. Festschrift für Harald Fuhr, ed. by Thomas Hickmann and Markus Lederer, Nomos, 99-109.

Reiners, Nina (2018): Kontroversen um die Reform der UN-Menschenrechtsvertragsorgane. Vereinte Nationen/ German Review on the United Nations 66 (6), 266-271.

Reiners, Nina (2018): Die Interpretation von Menschenrechtsnormen durch die Vertragsausschüsse der Vereinten Nationen. MenschenRechtsMagazin 23 (1), 5-14.

Reiners, Nina (2018): General Comment No. 15 on the Right to Water (2002), in: Quellen zur Geschichte der Menschenrecht, ed. by Fritz Thyssen Working Group Human Rights in the 20th Century.

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Book reviews

Reiners, Nina (2022): Alles für die gute Sache. Review of „Privileged Precarities. An Organizational Ethnography of Early Career Workers at the United Nations“ by Linda Martina Mülli, Soziopolis.

Reiners, Nina (2021): „The ‘Third’ United Nations. How a Knowledge Ecology helps the UN think” by Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss, Global Policy.

Reiners, Nina (2021): „Constitutionalizing World Politics: The Logic of Democratic Power and the Unintended Consequences of International Treaty Making“ by Karolina M. Milewicz, Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS) 62 (3), 575-577.

Reiners, Nina (2014): Der Aufstieg der “zweiten Generation” der Menschenrechte. Review of „Soziale Menschenrechte zwischen Recht und Politik“ by Michael Krennerich, Vereinte Nationen/German Review on the United Nations 62 (5), 230.

Working papers & blog posts

Reiners, Nina (2022): Renewing the UN Human Rights Regime in a Changing World – Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions Call for Human Rights Optimism, Multilateralism in Action, 23 June 2022.

Barkholdt, Janina and Nina Reiners (2019): Pronouncements of Expert Treaty Bodies: From ‘Black Boxes’ to ‘Key Catalysts’ in International Law?; KFG Working Paper Series, No. 40, Berlin Potsdam Research Group “The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?”.

Reiners, Nina (2019): Undermining Authority from Within, The Global, 3 January 2019.

Reiners, Nina (2018): Giving Human Rights a Future: The Transnational and Transformative Character of a Business and Human Rights Treaty, Völkerrechtsblog, 27 July 2018.

Reiners, Nina (2023). 2. Reiners, Nina (2023): Expert Bodies and Organizational Culture(s) in International Organizations, in: Handbook on Governance in International Organizations, ed. by Alistair D. Edgar, Edward Elgar, 107-121. In Edgar, Alistair (Eds.), Handbook on Governance in International Organizations, ed. by Alistair D. Edgar, Edward Elgar, 107-121.. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 978 1 80088 492 2.
Reiners, Nina (2023). Reiners, Nina (2023): Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions as Change Agents in International Law, in: The Many Paths of Change in International Law, ed. by Nico Krisch and Ezgi Yildiz, Oxford University Press, 89-106. . In Krisch, Nico & Yildiz, Ezgi (Ed.), The Many Paths of Change in International Law, ed. by Nico Krisch and Ezgi Yildiz, Oxford University Press.. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198877844.
Reiners, Nina (2023). Reiners, Nina (2023): States as Bystanders of Legal Change: Alternative Paths for the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation in International Law. Leiden Journal of International Law, online first. . Leiden Journal of International Law. ISSN 0922-1565. 37(1), p. 22–41.
Reiners, Nina (2023). Reiners, Nina (2023): The Power of Interpersonal Relationships: A Socio-Legal Approach to International Institutions and Human Rights Advocacy. Review of International Studies, online first. Review of International Studies. ISSN 0260-2105. 50(2), p. 252–270.
Reiners, Nina (2023). “Lesch, Max and Nina Reiners (2023): Informal Human Rights Lawmaking: How Treaty Bodies Use General Comments to Develop International Law. Global Constitutionalism 12(2), 378-401. Global Constitutionalism. ISSN 2045-3817. 12(2), p. 378–401.
Reiners, Nina (2022). Reiners, Nina (2022): Internationale Organisationen & NGOs als Wissensakteure, in: Herrschaft und Wissen, ed. by Gunnar Folke Schuppert, Nomos, 241-264. . In Schuppert, Gunnar (Eds.), Herrschaft und Wissen, ed. by Gunnar Folke Schuppert, Nomos.. Nomos. ISSN 978-3-8487-6943-8.
Reiners, Nina (2022). Reiners, Nina (2022): Self-Agentification by Experts: A Mechanism for Human Rights Lawmaking; Forum The Why and How of Global Governors: Relational Agency in World Politics, with Deloffre, Maryam Z.; Hofferberth, Matthias; Holzscheiter, Anna; Koch, Martin; Lambach, Daniel; Ronit, Karsten. International Studies Review 24 (4), . International Studies Review. ISSN 1521-9488.
Reiners, Nina (2021). Reiners, Nina (2021): Despite or Because of Contestation? How Water became a Human Right. Human Rights Quarterly 43 (2), 329-343. . Human Rights Quarterly. ISSN 0275-0392.
Reiners, Nina (2021). Fleischer, Julia and Nina Reiners (2021): Connecting International Relations and Public Administration: Toward A Joint Research Agenda for the Study of International Bureaucracy. International Studies Review 23 (4), 1230-1247. . International Studies Review. ISSN 1521-9488.
Reiners, Nina (2020). Reiners, Nina (2020): Opposites Attract? The World Bank and the United Nations Human Rights Bodies, in: Augenmaß und Leidenschaft. Festschrift für Harald Fuhr, ed. by Thomas Hickmann and Markus Lederer, Nomos, 99-109. In Hickmann, Thomas & Lederer, Markus (Ed.), Augenmaß und Leidenschaft. Festschrift für Harald Fuhr. Nomos. ISSN 978-3-8487-5249-2.
Reiners, Nina (2019). Liese, Andrea and Nina Reiners (2019): The Eye of the Beholder? The Contestation of Values and International Law, in: The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?, ed. by Heike Krieger, Georg Nolte and Andreas Zimmermann, Oxford University Press, 335-343. In Krieger, Heike; Nolte, Georg & Zimmermann, Andreas (Ed.), The International Rule of Law? Rise or Decline?. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198843603.

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Reiners, Nina (2023). Reiners, Nina (2022, paperback 2023): Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights, Cambridge University Press. . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108969994. 214 p.