Strategic litigation | social justice | human rights
Photo: Justina Leston
Nani is the founder of Systemic Justice and the Digital Freedom Fund. She has extensive experience in human rights litigation and is responsible for groundbreaking freedom of expression cases across several national and international jurisdictions.
Litigation & teaching
Nani has overseen litigation worldwide on issues including freedom of expression, fair trial, torture and arbitrary detention, leading or advising on cases before a multitude of national courts, the European Court of Human Rights, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, the East African Court of Justice, the UN Human Rights Committee, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Nani is an Adjunct Professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government. She has developed and delivered training sessions on freedom of expression and human rights litigation strategy to dozens of lawyers worldwide.
Nani Jansen Reventlow speaks at re:publica in Berlin. Copyright: re:publica/Gregor Fischer
Selected projects
Reimagining European Court of Human Rights caselaw from an intersectional perspective. Illustration: Tamara-Jade Kaz
Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments
The independent book project Intersectional Rewrites: European Court of Human Rights Judgments Reimagined imagines a jurisprudence that rises to the challenge of responding to these intersecting forms of oppression, discrimination, and other human rights harms.
It comprises a Blog Symposium and a book that will be published in 2025: Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments. The volume will gather 12 recent judgments from the Court, rewritten by activists, practitioners, and academics based on the key learnings of intersectionality theory and praxis.
Catalysts for Collaboration
The Catalysts for Collaboration website presents a set of best practices and case studies to encourage digital rights activists to take a more collaborative approach and include strategic litigation in their campaigns. The project was developed by Nani during her time as a 2016-2017 fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. The project’s website was updated in 2020 with three new language versions, a new design, and additional case studies.