Human and Fundamental Rights Working Group

The Human and Fundamental Rights Working Group provides a forum for researchers to discuss issues related to the protection of human rights at domestic, regional and international levels. As of April 2019, this Working Group combines the former Fundamental Rights Working Group (established in May 2011) and the Human Rights Working Group-Law in Action Project (newly relaunched in April 2018). The Working Group organises ad hoc events with invited external and internal speakers, and welcomes EUI researchers’ presentations. It also provides an informal forum for discussing ideas, papers and case law through monthly meetings of its members. Our ambition is to keep track of the latest international and European legal developments and to contribute to research on human rights protection carried out in various forms at the EUI’s LAW Department and beyond.

List of Events Academic Year 2025-2026

• 27.10.2025: Roma women before the European Court of Human Rights: a missed opportunity to deliver justice
• 17.11.2025: Mock December Paper Workshop
• 10.12.2025: Film screening - Writing Hawa
• 16.02.2026: Why we need to unravel the relationship between women’s equality and justification to understand the other half of the story
  
  

Events in Academic Year 2025-2026: 

• 23.09.2024: Engaging with human rights and environmental due diligence, Approaches, gaps, and future trajectories
• 22.10.2024: The 2024 CEDAW Inquiry Report on Poland and Beyond: Lessons from Human Rights Experimentalism to Protect Reproductive Rights
• 30.10.2024: Climate Litigation and the Politics of Rights (co-hosted with the Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group)
• 05.12.2024: Human Rights Mock December Workshop
• 10.12.2024: Human Rights Day Film Screening: Democracy Noir (2024) (co-hosted with the Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group)
• 13.12.2024: Book Launch: Sex, gender, and international human rights law: contesting binaries (co-hosted with the Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group and the Legal and Political Theory Working Group)
• 04.02.2025: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities responds to the challenge: obligations in regard to employing artificial intelligence decision-making processes
• 06.03.2025: A Day, 365 Hours, Film screening
• 14.03.2025: Gender diversity in public law ( co-convened by the Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group, and the Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group)
• 19.03.2025: Strategic litigation and legal mobilisation
• 07.05.2025: Criminalizing Human Rights and International Law ( co-hosted with the International Law Working Group)
• 15.05.2025: States' human rights obligations and justification of their (in)actions (jointly organized with the the Faculty of Law (University of Helsinki), the research project on Human Rights in the Nordic Countries (Lund University), and WP4 of HRJust, a Horizon EU Funded research project)
• 20.05.2025: Collaborative workshop - 2nd and 3rd year presentation requirements ( co-organized with the Digital Public Sphere, EU law, International Law, International Economic Law and Policy, and Human Rights Working Groups) (EUI internal event)
• 23.05.2025: The legally binding instrument on business and human rights as a human rights treaty
• 02.06.2025: R2HE: Reimagining Legal Concepts in the Anthropocene
• 04.06.2025: Violence against women: an inquiry into the limits of international human rights law

Past Events