Biography

Martin Scheinin joined the EUI as Professor of International Law and Human Rights in 2008 after 15 years as professor in Finland. In 1993-1998 he was Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Helsinki where he also got his doctorate in 1991. In 1998-2008 he was Professor of Constitutional and International Law and Director of the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. In 1997-2004 he was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the treaty body acting under the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In 2005 he was appointed as the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, a position of trust he held until July 2011. He served as the EUI Dean of Graduate Studies from January 2016 to January 2019. After his full-time EUI contract came to an end in August 2020, he continues as part-time professor. Currently he is British Academy Global Professor at the University of Oxford and a member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Multilingual and Cross-cultural interactions for context-aware, and bias-controlled dialogue systems for safety-critical applications

Completed

• Human Rights in the Endgame of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Beyond
• Surveillance: Ethical Issues, Legal Limitations, and Efficiency

Supervisees

• Helga Molbæk-Steensig
• Jasmine Sommardal
• Matilda Merenmies

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• SCHEININ, Martin (2023), Libertad de expresión, terrorismo y antiterrorismo en la era digital, Contribution to book
• SCHEININ, Martin (2024), Indigenous peoples' right to fish : recent recognition of Sámi rights in Finland through civil disobedience and criminal trial, Contribution to book
• WAGNER, Deniz; HAAS, Julia (ed/s), PIRKOVA, Eliska; KETTEMANN, Matthias; WISNIAK, Marlena; SCHEININ, Martin; BEVENSEE, Emmi; PENTNEY, Katie; WOODS, Lorna; HEITZ, Lucien; KOSTIC, Bojana; ROZGONYI, Krisztina; SARGEANT, Holli; HAAS, Julia; JOLER, Vladan (2022), Spotlight on Artificial Intelligence and freedom of expression : a policy manual, Book
• SCHEININ, Martin (2022), Expert witness statement : a submission to the Inter-American court of Human Rights on the AMIA case ('Active Memory Civil Association v. Argentina'), Working Paper
• SCHEININ, Martin (2022), Amicus Curiae brief by Professor Martin Scheinin in the case of 'Daniel Billy et al. (Torres Strait Islanders) v. Australia' by the UN Human Rights committee, Working Paper
• GHERBAOUI, Tarik; SCHEININ, Martin (2023), A dual challenge to human rights law : online terrorist content and governmental orders to remove it, Article

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