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©NCHR: Public event with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk at UiO, 24 Oct 2023
I am dedicated to producing policy-relevant research and to disseminating my findings to the public. As a scholar of international relations, international law and human rights, having a societal impact with my research and teaching activities is both motivation and objective of my work. For this aim, I discuss my arguments with practitioners and highlight implications of my findings for policy and practice in my publications.

In November 2025, I shared insights from my scholarship at a Bridging the Gap's New Voices in National Security (with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) workshop on "Responding to Closing Civic Space" with key members of the policy community in Washington D.C. You can find a summary of the workshop here. 

Media Interviews & Podcasts
  • What Future for Multilateralism?, WDR Aktuelle Stunde, 15 November 2025. 
  • #28 Menschenrechtsausschüsse, Podcast Völkerrechtsblog, 2 June 2023.   
  • Planet Courage, Podcast, 6 December 2022. 
  • Human Rights under Pressure?, DGVN Podcast UN:gefragt, 16 December 2020. 

Public Speaking
  • Should the World Bank remain a Human Rights-free Zone? NORAD Seminar, Oslo, 2 November 2023. 
  • The Human Rights 75 Initiative, UiO public panel debate with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, Oslo, 24 October 2023. 
  • Converging Points of Business, Trade and Human Rights, EU-India People’s Summit, 7 May 2021. 
  • Germany’s Role in the UN System, DGVN public panel debate, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences, 27 February 2020. 
  • Do Human Rights have a Future?, Annual Human Rights Conference Conflicts of Values, Estonian Institute for Human Rights, Tallinn, 10 December 2018. 
  • Human Rights in Crisis – Challenged Human Rights Protection as Sign of a Transformation of International Law?, Roundtable at the Long Night of the Sciences, Berlin, 9 June 2018. 

Public Writing 
  • Reiners, Nina and Ellen Vrålstad (2025): Helping or Harmful? Big Law in Global Governance, The Globe, 21 February 2025.
  • 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, also published as "Injecting Optimism back into the UN Human Rights Regime: The Power of Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions", The Global, 6 September 2022.
  • Reiners, Nina (2019): Undermining Authority from Within, The Global, 3 January 2019, https://theglobal.blog/2019/01/03/undermining-authority-from-within/
  • Reiners, Nina (2018): Giving Human Rights a Future: The Transnational and Transformative Character of a Business and Human Rights Treaty, Völkerrechtsblog, 27 July 2018, doi: 10.17176/20180724-155129-0