Eva Pils

Eva Pils is Professor of Human Rights Law at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), where she holds a Humboldt Professorship, and a member of the FAU Research Centre for Human Rights. She studied law, philosophy, and sinology in Heidelberg, London, and Beijing, and holds a Ph.D. in Law from University College London. Her research focuses on autocratic conceptions and practices of governance, legal, and political resistance, and the dynamics of complicity with autocratic practices. Before joining FAU in 2024, she held professorial positions at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at King’s College London. She is also a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London School of Law, a non-resident affiliated scholar at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute of New York University School of Law, and an Affiliate of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London. She is the author of China’s Human Rights Lawyers: Advocacy and Resistance (Routledge, 2014).