Research associate

Visitor address

S4|22, Raum 308  
Landwehrstr. 48A
64293 Darmstadt      

Contact

julia.drubel@tu-darmstadt.de



Julia Drubel is Research Associate at the Chair of “Transnational Governance” of Prof. Dr. Jens Steffek. She works as Postdoc in the DFG-Research-Training-Group “Standards of Governance”. She researches the realization of sustainability standards with a special emphasis on knowledge orders and authorities. Further topics of her work are social human rights and sustainable forest governance. In her dissertation she analyzed the effectiveness of the ILO’s prohibition of forced labour.

Research interests

  • Knowledge, authority, and standards
  • Global Social Governance
  • International Political Economy
  • Social human rights and decent work
  • Sustainability and EU-forest-governance

Curriculum Vitae

Since 04/2023Postdoc at the DFG Research Training Group “Standards of Governance” a joint project by the Technical University of Darmstadt and Goethe University Frankfurt. Research, science coordination and science communication.
08/2021-03/2023
(02/22-10/22 Parental Leave)
Senior researcher at the research group “The Multiplication of Authorities in Global Governance Institutions” headed by PD Dr. Janne Mende at the the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.
04/2021Doctorate, “The ILO’s prohibition of forced labour. Norm effectiveness in the globalized economy” at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen.   
04/2019-05/2021
(10/2019-11/2020 Parental Leave)
Research Associate at the Chair of International Relations headed by Prof. Dr. Helmut Breitmeier at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen.
03/2016-04/2019Research Associate at the DFG Research Project “Interreligious Dialogue and the Global Norm of Freedom of Religion”, at the Chair of International Relations, Prof. Dr. Helmut Breitmeier, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. 
04/2014-03/2016Research Associate at the Chair of International Relations, Prof. Dr. Helmut Breitmeier, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen.