2024–: Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Human Rights Law, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

2024–: Visiting Professor, Queen Mary University of London School of Law

2022–: Associate Member, Centre for Human Rights, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

2018–2024: Professor of Law, King’s College London, The Dickson Poon School of Law

2014–2018: Reader in Transnational Law, King’s College London, The Dickson Poon School of Law

2007–2014: Professoriate appointment at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, from 2007 as Assistant Professor, from 2009 as Associate Professor, substantiated (tenured) in 2012

2011-: Non-resident Affiliated Scholar, New York University (NYU) Law School, US-Asia Law Institute.

2001–2004: Conceptions of rights and justice in China, University College London, Supervisors: Stephen Guest, UCL, and Mike Palmer, SOAS.

1999–2000: Master of Laws, SOAS, UK

1991–1998: Legal studies and training to 1st (1996) and 2nd (1998) State Exam in Law; Undergraduate studies (to Intermediate Exam level) in Philosophy and Sinology, Heidelberg University and Beijing Foreign Languages University (exchange)

Eva Pils is Professor of Human Rights Law at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), where she holds a Humboldt Professorship, and a member of the FAU Research Centre for Human Rights. She studied law, philosophy, and sinology in Heidelberg, London, and Beijing, and holds a PhD in Law from University College London. Her research focuses on autocratic conceptions and practices of governance, legal and political resistance, and the dynamics of complicity with autocratic practices. Before joining FAU in 2024, she held professorial positions at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at King’s College London. She is also a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London School of Law, a non-resident affiliated scholar at the US-Asia Law Institute of New York University School of Law, and an Affiliate of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London.