Grażyna Baranowska is a Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Prior to this, she was a Senior Researcher at the Hertie School, where she led a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project on missing migrants, and worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She has published in Law and Social Inquiry, Leiden Journal of International Law, European Constitutional Law Review, International Journal of Human Rights, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights and European Convention on Human Rights Law Review, among others.

She is the author of the monograph Rights of Families of Disappeared Persons: How International Bodies Address the Needs of Families of Disappeared Persons in Europe (Intersentia, 2021).

Since 2022, she is a member of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.