Eva Pils is an interdisciplinary expert on international human rights law with special focus on China. She is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at FAU and holds the Chair of Human Rights Law. She is also a member and part of the collegiate directorship team of the FAU Centre for Human Rights Erlangen Nuremberg.

Eva studied law, philosophy and sinology in Heidelberg, London and Beijing and holds a PhD in law from University College London. Before joining FAU in 2024, Eva held tenured positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law (2007-2014) and at King’s College London (2014-2024), where she was appointed
Professor of Law in 2018. She is also an affiliated scholar at the US-Asia Law Institute of New York University
Law School (since 2012), an Affiliate with the King’s College London Lau China Institute and Transnational Law Institute (since 2014) and a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London School of Law (since 2024). She has held positions as a Visiting Scholar at Institut d’Études Avanceées de Paris and European Institute for Chinese Studies (EURICS)/IEAP; as a Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School; as an External Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law; and as Directrice d’études at École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales, Paris.