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Wolfgang Kaleck
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Wolfgang Kaleck, lawyer and author focusing on human rights and international criminal law. Among his most recent publications is Unternehmen vor Gericht. Globale Kämpfe für Menschenrechte (Taking corporations to court: Global struggles for human rights, 2016). He is General Secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), a non-profit, independent human rights organisation based in Berlin, Germany, which he founded in 2007. Most recently, he was the curator of the Memory and Justice event in autumn 2016, jointly organised by the Akademie der Künste, the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung and ECCHR.