Martin Scheinin

Professor of Public International Law

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 589 / 275
Fax [+39] 055 4685 200
E mail Martin.Scheinin@eui.eu 

Secretary/Administrative Assistant: Annick Bulckaen 

EUI Law Department
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Firenze - Italy

Appointed in September 2008, contract renewable in September 2013

Research and Supervision 

• Public International Law
• Human Rights Law
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• The Law of Countering Terrorism
• Privacy and Surveillance

Completed Ph.D. Projects Supervised at the EUI 

• Noora Arajarvi, 04/02/2011 (co-supervisor)
• Ciaran Burke, 24/11/2011

Languages 

Finnish, English, Swedish (active)
French, German, Italian, Norwegian and Danish (passive)

Current Seminars at the EUI 

• Advanced Course on the Law of Treaties - Sources and Interpretation in International Law  
• Fundamental Rights in the European Union  (with L. Azoulai  and M. Maduro )

Current Research Projects 

• SURVEILLE Surveillance: Ethical Issues, Legal Limitations, and Efficiency
  www.surveille.eu  
  EUI in SURVEILLE
  See also earlier project DETECTER (below)
  

• DETECTER:  Detection Technologies, Terrorism, Ethics and Human Rights(with Prof. Tom Sorell, Birmingham)
  www.detecter.eu 
  Video 
  LIFT: Legal issues in the fight against terrorism 
  

• SURPRISE Surveillance, Privacy and Security: A large scale participatory assessment of criteria and factors determining acceptability and acceptance of security technologies in Europe
  www.surprise-project.eu 
  EUI in SURPRISE
  

• Treatment of Third-Country Nationals at the EU's External Borders 
  

• Towards a World Court of Human Rights 
  Part of Swiss Initiative to Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  Report of 30 April 2009 
  Consolidated Draft Statute of May 2010 , as published in Kozma, Julia, Manfred Nowak and Martin Scheinin: A World Court of Human Rights - Consolidated Statute and Commentary. Vienna: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2010.
  The project continues towards a monograph
  

• Nordic Network in Human Rights Research 
  

• Beyond Territoriality: Globalisation and Transnational Human Rights Obligations (GLOTHRO) 
  European Science Foundation, Research Networking Programme 2010-2014
  Video 
  

External Activities and Positions 

• President of the International Association of Constitutional Law 
• Member of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Committee of the International Law Association