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

• Mar 23 2026, Workshop: How to write a (Verfassungs) blog (co-hosted with the Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group)
• Mar 23 2026, Panel discussion: rule of law resilience, and how to write about it (co-hosted with the Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group)
• Apr 13 2026, Backlash against rights: conceptual apparatus and research agenda
• May 22 2026, Are ECHR Rights Human Rights? The Grounds and Directions of Duties in Human Rights Law (co-hosted with the Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group)
• Jun 04 2026, Beyond a Counter-Terrorism Perspective: Women Returnees and their Children in the UK and France
• Jun 08 2026, Workshop Gender Equality, the Digital Space and the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
• Jun 11 2026, Book Launch: “Responding to Authoritarian Populism at the European Court of Human Rights” (co-hosted with the International Law Working Group)
• Jun 22 2026, Corporations as constructors of International Human Rights? (co-hosted with the Environmental Law and Governance Working Group) 

Past Events