Strategic litigation | social justice | human rights
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Nani is an author and award-winning human rights lawyer specialised in strategic litigation at the intersection of human rights, social justice, and technology.
Presentations & talks
Nani has given expert presentations and talks at a variety of national and international forums on freedom of expression, digital rights, and strategic litigation. Selected talks include:
- Harnessing the Law for Climate Justice, keynote at Environmental Funders Network retreat, June 2023
- State of the Internet Lecture 2022: “Operation Reboot” –– What does building an intersectional feminist internet look like?, annual “Staat van het Internet” lecture at Waag, March 2022
- Shedding Light on Social, Racial, and Economic Injustice (video), fireside chat with Aspen Institute Germany, November 2021
- Digital Rights: Developments at Home and Abroad (video), conversation with Aswini Weereratne QC and Tetevi Davi of the Human Rights Lawyers’ Association, June 2021
Photo: Nani Jansen Reventlow speaking at re:publica. Copyright: re:publica/Gregor Fischer
Nani Jansen Reventlow speaks at the 2018 Oxford Internet Institute Awards where she received an Internet and Society Award for her work on digital rights. Photo: OII
Honours & awards
Nani has received a number of honours and awards in recognition of her work, including:
In 2024, Nani received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Internet Society NL for her work to advance digital rights.
In 2021, Nani received the Felipe Rodriguez Award, presented each year by Bits of Freedom to someone who has done something remarkable for the right to privacy.
In 2021, Nani received the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Memorial Award, which honours one distinguished scholar or practitioner every year for their outstanding contribution to the field of international law.
In 2020, Nani was one of the honourees featured in the Annual Harvard Law International Women’s Day Portrait Exhibit of “Women Inspiring Change“.
Nani was selected as a 2019 Soho House Pioneer for her ground-breaking human rights work.
In 2018, Nani received the Oxford Internet Institute Internet & Society Award, recognising extraordinary contributions towards the development, use or study of the Internet for the public good, for having founded the Digital Freedom Fund.
In 2015, the Media Legal Defence Initiative, of which Nani was then Legal Director, received the inaugural Columbia University Global Freedom of Expression Prize for Excellence in Legal Services for its work on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ first free speech case.
Affiliations
Nani is associated with world-class universities and institutions and serves on a variety of international boards, committees and councils.
Nani has been an Ashoka fellow since 2021. She is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where she was a 2016-2017 Fellow.
Nani is a member of the Human Rights Watch Policy Committee and Human Rights Watch Netherlands Committee. She is part of the Advisory Council of Climate Rights International.
In 2024, Nani was appointed to the Human Rights Committee of the Advisory Council on International Affairs in the Netherlands.
Nani Jansen Reventlow. Photo: Soho House / Thomas Chéné