(W.E.Talk) Peter Herrmann: Is AI a Reason for Optimism or a Cul-de-Sac on the Human Rights Path Forward?(5)

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Peter Herrmann is a Professor at the Law School of CSU, a full-time researcher at the CSU Human Rights Center, and an Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is also the recipient of the 2023 Chinese Government Friendship Award. He has held positions at University College Cork (Ireland), Corvinus University of Budapest, and Zhejiang University, alongside academic roles at institutions including the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory (Germany). He serves on the academic committees of multiple international journals.

Representing CSU, he has participated in over 30 seminars organized by the European Commission, OECD, and other bodies. Invited by the Permanent Mission of China to the UN Office in Geneva, other international organizations, and the China Society for Human Rights, he has attended more than ten sessions of the UN Human Rights Council and academic conferences on human rights in China, delivering keynote speeches.

The book series Human Rights - Looking for the Future, co-edited by Professor Mao Junxiang and Professor Herrmann and involving scholars worldwide, has resonated within Western academia. Supported by the CSU Human Rights Center, he founded the academic group HRUG (Human Rights: Universal and Global) and its research website. To date, HRUG has initiated and organized dozens of academic exchange activities.