About.

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A lawyer by training and a recognized sociolegal scholar, Dr. Stefanie Lemke has worked, for more than 15 years, with a wide range of stakeholders: governments, leading  universities, prominent NGOs, commercial law firms and international organizations like the United Nations in Europe, Central/Southeast Asia, and Latin America. She studied law and was trained as a judge, a prosecutor and a criminal defence lawyer in Germany, litigating high-profile cases before international human rights bodies and the International Criminal Court. She completed a PhD in sociolegal studies at Oxford, London and Cologne Universities.

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Stefanie acts regularly as an adviser for the United Nations, the European Union,  the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. As such, she has been appointed, for example,  to several EU expert groups promoting access to justice, victims' rights, judicial cooperation and capacity building for civil society actors, served multiple times as the European Commission's national expert for Germany and was  commissioned to develop Europe's first guidelines on legal aid (which were adopted by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers in 2021).

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Stefanie has held various research and teaching positions at Dutch, French, German, Spanish and UK universities. She was a visiting professor at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) and has developed, delivered and supervised trainings to justice professionals, TV broadcasters, diplomats and law faculties. She is an Associate to Leeds University's Legal Professions Research Group and is Elected Board Member of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL).

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Stefanie has given more than 50 presentations at important conference and high-level events like at Harvard University and authored more than 70 academic articles, policy papers and columns as well as three books with Cambridge University Press and other major publishers. Her latest book 'Human Rights Lawyering in Europa' looks at the relationship between affordable access to justice and the provision of legal services to vulnerable groups.