Johanna Blimlinger studied law with a focus on legal gender studies in Vienna and completed a Master’s degree in “Human Rights, Culture and Social Justice” in London. She previously worked at the Equal Treatment Commission and as a research assistant at the Institute for Legal Gender Studies at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Johanna’s main focus lies in the following areas:

• anti-discrimination law
• legal and social dimensions of gender relations
• fundamental and human rights guarantees of equality
• feminist (legal) theory.

At the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (LBI-GMR), Johanna works on developments in the field of equality and non-discrimination. She is particularly interested in how law and society interact to create realities. It is especially important to Johanna to ask the right questions.