Lorenzo Acconciamessa
works as an assistant lawyer at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights. He holds a Ph.D. in public international law from the ‘Human Rights: Evolution, Protection and Limits’ programme of the University of Palermo, Italy, and the École Doctorale de Droit de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. His research fields are international human rights law, with special emphasis on the international protection of vulnerable individuals, the interpretation of international law, and international procedural law.
Chiara Altafin
is a research manager at the headquarters of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice, where she has also been a teaching fellow for the European Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation since September 2015. She holds a Ph.D. in International Law and an ll.m. in Comparative, European and International Laws, both from the European University Institute (eui), and a Master’s in Rule of Law, Democracy and Human Rights from luiss University. She graduated cum laude at the Law Department of Roma Tre University and has been admitted to the Italian Bar.
Alfred Benny Auer
joined in the Department of Public Law, University of Salzburg as Postdoctoral Researcher in January 2023. Previously, he was a senior scientist at the Austrian Human Rights Institute, University of Salzburg and worked as an associate focused on family law. Regarding fundamental rights, he is focused on freedom of speech in the digital age. Besides that, his research interests are Austrian constitutional law, administrative law (especially trade and procedural law) and the interrelationship between EU and national law.
Agnieszka Bień-Kacała
is Professor of Constitutional Law at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the University of Szczecin, Poland. She is Leader of the Research Group on Gender and Constitution in Poland. She has also served as Principal Investigator within the Polish nsc grant entitled Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary. Her latest co-authored (with Timea Drinóczi) book on illiberal constitutionalism was published by Routledge in 2022.
holds Dr. iur. and Dr. phil. degrees. Since 2002 he has been Senior Researcher at the Austrian Institute for Human Rights. He is the editor of the Newsletter Menschenrechte, a periodical reporting in German on the current case law of the European Court of Human Rights. His fields of interest are the case law of the ECtHR and its transposition in Austria, asylum and migration law, the freedom of reproductive choice and family law, as well as human rights in the penitentiary system.
Natalia Cwicinskaja
is Assistant Professor of International Law and International Organisations at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. Her areas of interest include statehood, recognition in international law, the creation of states, human rights law and unrecognised entities. Together with Piotr Okesky she is editor of Moldova: In search of its own place in Europe (Oficyna Wydawnicza Epigram, 2013).
Elias Faller
is a research and teaching assistant and a Ph.D. candidate at the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Graz (uni-etc). In his teaching and research he focuses on human rights law and international refugee law. He is a member of the ‘Promoting Academic Freedom in Ukraine’ Erasmus project and participates in national fora on the promotion of human rights in Austria. He graduated from the law school of the University of Graz and also holds a ba in translation (German-Arabic).
Helen Fenwick
is Professor of Law at Durham University, Joint Director of the University of Durham Human Rights Centre (until 2012), and a Human Rights Consultant to Doughty Street Chambers. She specialises in human rights, especially in relation to the European Convention on Human Rights and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. Her monographs include Media Freedom under the Human Rights Act (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Civil Liberties and Human Rights (Routledge, 2017). She co-authored a number of journal articles including ‘Protecting free speech and academic freedom in universities’ in Modern Law Review (2018) 81(5), ‘Finding “East”/ “West” divisions in Council of Europe states on treatment of sexual minorities’ in European Human Rights Law Review (2019) 3, and ‘Keeping Control of personal information in the digital age: efficacy and equivalence of tortious and gdpr/dpa relief’ in Law Quarterly Review (2022) 138(3).
is a Ph.D. candidate in law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. Prior to starting her Ph.D. studies, she gained professional experience first as a country-of-origin information specialist at the Hungarian Immigration and Asylum Office and then as a trainee lawyer at a prestigious law firm in Budapest with a large Italian- and English-speaking clientele. She has published a number of articles and participated in Italian and international conferences on diverse topics, such as asylum, immigration and populism, the protection of fundamental rights in emergency contexts and social rights in the EU. Her doctoral research focuses on the connections between health cases, the principle of non-refoulement and the right to asylum. She spent a five-month-long research period at the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (University of Graz) from October 2023 to February 2024. Her recent articles include ‘The never-ending story of judicial review in composite administrative proceedings: latest developments in the field of asylum’ in Diritto, Immigrazione e Cittadinanza (2023) 1 and ‘One Health, One Society: Il diritto alla salute quale presupposto per il diritto di asilo’ in Corti Supreme e Salute, Sezione Speciale – One World, One Health … Which Law? (2022) 3.
Lisa Heschl
is Senior Scientist at the European Training and Research Centre on Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Graz (Uni-etc). She received her Ph.D. in law from the University of Graz and holds a European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (e.ma). Her research focuses on the European migration and asylum policy and legislation, the extraterritorial application of international and European refugee and human rights law and its relationship with European border policies.
Gabrielle Holly
is Chief Adviser on Business and Human Rights at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, leading the team’s work on legal and regulatory developments relevant to fostering business respect for human rights. She is a business and human rights specialist and an experienced commercial disputes practitioner, having practised over the last decade at Magic Circle firms in Australia and the UK and advising companies and states on business and human rights and public international law. Gabrielle was formerly a researcher in business and human rights at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. She has published research papers on human rights due diligence in supply chains, mandatory due diligence laws and implementation of the ‘smart mix’,
Marianna Iliadou
joined the University of Sussex as Lecturer in Law in August 2022, having previously been a Teaching Fellow in Medical Law and Ethics at Durham University. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from Durham University, where she explored surrogacy and its possible protection under the umbrella of the European Convention of Human Rights. Marianna’s doctoral research was funded by the Modern Law Review, and she was also recipient of the prestigious Helen Reece Award. She conducts research at the intersection of medical law, family law and human rights, with her research including, among others, medically assisted reproduction and legal parenthood, the human rights and reproductive justice frameworks, domestic and international surrogacy practices within and beyond Europe.
Stéphanie Lagoutte
is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. She holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and one from the University of Aarhus. She has worked at and published articles about the European Court of Human Rights, the right to respect for family life, religious freedom, etc. Most of her recent work focuses on the duties and role of the state in human rights protection. She is the co-editor of two journal special issues on the State Actors of the National Human Rights System (Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 2019) and on Governmental Human Rights Focal Points (Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 2021). She has taught at the Global Campus’ Arab Master on Democratisation and Human Rights since 2015. Her new research project focuses on human rights in exceptional times and looks into the response of international and domestic human rights mechanisms to emergency situations.
Élisabeth Lambert
is a cnrs research director in legal sciences working in the Law & Social Change (Nantes University) research unit. She specialises in issues involving the enforcement of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, access to justice and the possibilities for victims to obtain redress for violations of their rights. From January 2017 to July 2018, she was a professor at an Australian
Francesco Paolo Levantino
is a Ph.D. candidate in international and European human rights law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and Visiting Researcher within the Research Group on Law, Science, Technology and Society (lsts) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (vub). His research project focusses on the use of ai and biometric-based tools, such as emotion recognition, in law enforcement. In 2020, he obtained the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (ema), writing his thesis on the human rights implications of facial recognition technology during his time as a visiting student at the ku Leuven Centre for Public Law. In 2018 he graduated summa cum laude in law from the University of Palermo. His thesis on substantive criminal law delved into the profound impact that the adoption of pre-emptive counterterrorism measures had on the structure of certain criminal offences, for which he received a special commendation.
Karin Lukas
is Professor of Legal Studies at the Central European University (ceu). She is an expert on the interactions between different human rights systems and institutions with a focus on the wider Europe as well as in the translation of human rights standards into activities of business, trade, development cooperation and climate change. She has acted as a consultant for various national and international organisations such as the UN Development Programme, miga (World Bank Group) the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and companies in various sectors, and was appointed a member of the European Committee of Social Rights of the Council of Europe in 2011 (until 2022).
Signe Andreasen Lysgaard
is Chief Adviser on Business and Human Rights at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. She is a political scientist from the University of Copenhagen and has more than a decade of experience in advising companies, financial institutions, governments and civil society organisations across sectors and geographies on corporate respect for human rights. Her current work focuses
Michalina Marcia
is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wrocław and conducts research on the influence of artificial intelligence on criminal proceedings and defence rights. Since December 2021 she has been Research Assistant at the Digital Justice Center which was established as a part of the ‘Excellence Initiative – Research University’ that focuses on interdisciplinary research concerning the impact of new technologies on criminal justice systems. Since February 2023 she has collaborated as an expert at the grai – Working Group on ai in Poland in the ai and Ethics Subgroup, concentrating particularly on legal and constitutional aspects.
Ronagh McQuigg
is Reader at the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her research interests are in the area of international human rights law. She has published five sole-authored books – International Human Rights Law and Domestic Violence (Routledge, 2011), Bills of Rights: A Comparative Perspective (Intersentia, 2014), The Istanbul Convention, Domestic Violence and Human Rights (Routledge, 2017), Criminal Justice Responses to Domestic Abuse in Northern Ireland (Routledge, 2022) and The European Convention on Human Rights and the covid-19 Pandemic (Routledge, 2024). She is also a co-editor (with Vanessa Bettinson) of Criminalising Coercive Control: Challenges for the Implementation of Northern Ireland’s Domestic Abuse Offence (Routledge, 2023). In addition, she has published various journal articles and chapters in edited books. She holds ll.b., ll.m. and Ph.D. degrees, all from Queen’s University Belfast and is a qualified solicitor and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She currently teaches in the areas of Land Law and Family Law.
Manfred Nowak
is Professor of Human Rights and Scientific Director of the Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights at Vienna University as well as Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice. He has acted as an independent
Gerd Oberleitner
is unesco Chair in Human Rights and Human Security at the Faculty of Law, University of Graz, and Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Graz. He has been a lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Visiting Professor at the European Inter-University Centre, Venice, the Université du Quebéc à Montréal, the Universities of Ljubljana and Bochum and Rutgers University. He teaches in the Global Campus of Human Rights.
Federica Paolucci
is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Constitutional Law, Curriculum in European and International Law, at Bocconi University. Additionally, she is the Coordinator of the ll.m. programme in Law of Internet Technology, Instructor in the Fundamentals of it Law at the same university, and Teaching Assistant in EU Law at the SciencesPo Summer School. She is a visiting researcher of the tilt Centre (Institute for Law, Technology and Society) at Tilburg University. Her research primarily revolves around safeguarding fundamental rights in the context of artificial intelligence, particularly delving into the realm of biometric technologies. Her Ph.D. dissertation zeroes in on ensuring effective access to justice and remedies under the ai Act, with a specific focus on the implementation of face recognition systems within the law enforcement domain. Alongside Professors Finocchiaro, Pollicino and Donati, she is co-editing the upcoming volume entitled ‘Artificial Intelligence Act’, which is slated for release in 2024.
Paulina Rundel
llm is a university assistant (prae doc) and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on the intersection between Human Rights and Climate Litigation in International and European law. In addition, she assists Professor
Hannah van Kolfschooten
is a researcher and a lecturer at the Law Centre for Health and Life (lchl), University of Amsterdam. She is currently teaching and coordinating the course in International and European Health Law in the Health Law master’s programme at the University of Amsterdam. She is also a Ph.D. fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (aighd) and an affiliated member of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (acelg). The topic of her Ph.D. research is EU regulation of algorithmic decision-making in public health and health care and focusses on safeguarding patients’ rights. Hannah received an llm in Health Law (cum laude, 2018) and an ll.m. in Information Law (cum laude, 2019) from the University of Amsterdam. She also studied at the University of Stellenbosch for a semester. In the 2023 Spring semester, she was Visiting Researcher in residence at Harvard Law School and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. In the 2024 Spring term, she was a Visiting Researcher in residence at Università di Verona.