Human Rights Working Group
The Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) was set up in 2009 at the initiative of a group of interested doctoral researchers. Its aims are to afford doctoral researchers the opportunity to present their research; discuss contemporary human rights issues; liaise with other similar working groups in other universities; host lectures by non-EUI scholars and other guest speakers; and complement the Department’s doctoral seminars.
Participation to the working group is encouraged for both EUI researchers as well as for fellows and visiting researchers and academics. HRWG works closely with EUI professors and especially under the guidance of Profs. Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin .
Activities 2011-2012
24/05-25/05/2012: Workshop on the Reach of Jurisdiction under Human Rights Law and the Rome Statute (ICC), jointly organised with the International Criminal Law (ICL) Working Group.
27/04/2012: Workshop on Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
14/03/2012: Seminar discussion on the recent ICJ judgement in Germany v. Italy with two of Italy's counsels in the case (Condorelli and Palchetti), jointly organised by Prof. Francioni and the HRWG and ICL Working Group.
25/01/2012: Mathias Möschel, EUI Law Dept, discussion of his paper 'Is the European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law on Anti-Roma Violence “Beyond Reasonable Doubt”?'.
09/12/2011: Eduard Blasi Casagran, Member of the Legal Service in the Catalan Data Protection Authority (APDCAT), “The Digital War of the XXI Century: Internet vs. Privacy. European and National Perspectives”, in collaboration with the INFOSOC Working Group.
25/11/2011: Christopher Rossi, Lecturer at the University of Iowa, on "Ridi Pagliaccio! Bush and Obama Engagement Strategies with Human Rights Bodies".
15/11/2011: Payam Akhavan, Professor at McGill University in Montreal, screening and discussion of the film “The Green Wave”, in collaboration with the Middle-East Working Group.
20/10/2011: Christopher McCrudden, University of Oxford/Queen's University Belfast, An Integrated Theory of Comparative Human Rights Law.
Activities 2010-2011
09/12/2010: Magdalena Sepúlveda, United Nations Independent Expert on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty, talk on the added value of a human rights approach to poverty reduction.
25/11/2010: Dov Jacobs, former EUI researcher, University of Amsterdam, Talk on "Snatching Defeat out of the Jaws of Defeat: The Crime of Aggression and the ICC".
22/11/2010: Martti Koskenniemi, Professor of International Law and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki, Discussion with researchers on the legacy of the 16th century Spanish scholastics for the emergence of international law, human rights and capitalism.
02/11/2010: Giovanni Ziccardi, Professor in Legal Informatics at the University of Milan, in collaboration with the INFOSOC Working Group, on "Liberation Technologies, Digital Resistance and Human Rights".
Activities 2009-2010
26-28/05/2010: Methods in Human Rights Research, as part of the EU-Nordic Network Initiative.
11/03/2010: Morten Bergsmo, Transferring Legal Information and Knowledge from International to National Criminal Justice for Atrocities: the Legal Tools Project'.
27/01/2010: Jernej Letnar Černič (MWF), Corporate obligations deriving from a human right to water.
02/12/2009: Prof. Martin Scheinin, A World Court for Human Rights.