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Solicitor & Partner

Dr. Vivian Kube, LL.M.

kube@km8.legal

Dr. Vivian Kube, LL.M., Solicitor & Partner – KM8

Solicitor Dr. Vivian Kube specialises in freedom of information law, the rights of politically active civil society, strategic litigation and policy advice, and the defence of fundamental and human rights.She has many years of experience (both international and national) in working with and advising human rights organisations and networks and in the creative use of legal means.She also works in the legal team of FragDenStaat (a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation e.V.), a non-profit association that promotes freedom of information. Previously, she worked for the Society for Civil Rights, where she was responsible for the project ‘Civic Space – Defending Civil Society’. After completing her studies, she took part in the Young Lawyers Training Programme at the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR).At the European University Institute in Florence, she conducted research for her PhD on EU investment law, human rights and civil society participation in trade relations, and taught human rights, international economic law and critical legal practice. During her legal clerkship, she worked for the Left Party parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, the parliamentary committee of inquiry on Breitscheidplatz, the Federal Foreign Office and the pro bono department of a large commercial law firm in Hamburg, Paris and Samos.

Dr Vivian Kube studied law in Hamburg and Leiden, Netherlands, and works in both German and English. She is a member of the Republican Lawyers’ Association (RAV), the German Lawyers’ Association (DJB) and innn.it. As chair of the Offene Tore e.V. association, she volunteers her support for the Freiheitsfonds project, which campaigns for the abolition of ‘fare evasion’ as a criminal offence. She is also co-editor of the RAV InfoBrief and publishes in various media outlets such as Der Spiegel, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Verfassungsblog.

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