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Welcome to the Institute of Eastern European and Comparative Law!

Institute of Eastern European and Comparative Law (formerly the Institute for Eastern European Law) was combined with the Academy for European Human Rights Protection in 2021. The Institute is specialised in research and teaching on topics related to law in Central and Eastern European countries. The director of the Institute is Professor Dr. Angelika Nußberger. This website overviews all projects, courses and cooperations concerning the Institute. Current research projects on Central and Eastern European law can be found on the research page.

 

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Symposium on “Misappropriation and Human Rights Implosion”

Between 6 and 8 November 2023, our postdoctoral researchers Dr. Júlia Miklasová, Dr. Paula Rhein-Fischer, and Dr. Cathérine Van de Graaf organised a symposium on "Misappropriation and Human Rights Implosion" at Schloss Herrenhausen in Hanover. VolkswagenStiftung funded and co-organised the event, which was part of the thematic week "Human Rights in Times of Multiple Challenges - Perspectives from Science and Society". The symposium brought together early career and established researchers from around the world and disciplinary background (law, sociology, linguistics, history, political science and IR). The participants discussed the topic from different angles, bringing together their unique scholarly experience and diverse methodological and disciplinary approaches.

During three days of the symposium, six panels examined the topic of misappropriation of human rights through different perspectives in both authoritarian and democratic regimes. The panels critically assessed the notion itself, focused on the key actors involved (ranging from States, religious, conservative groups, NGOs, and transnational networks), the strategies employed, as well as the locus of contestations (from domestic politics, domestic and international courts, up to international diplomacy). The symposium explored the theme through more general lenses and zoomed in on specific cases from across the world. Ultimately, the participants highlighted the implications of the phenomenon of misappropriation of human rights for the future of human rights, society and international relations. 

The conveners presented the video results of the focus groups conducted with young university students from different European countries on the topic of “Good Name of Human Rights? Does it Matter?”. The symposium closed with a keynote address by one of the leading voices on the subject of misappropriation and the implosion of human rights Prof. Katharine Young (Associate Dean for Faculty and Global Programs, Professor, and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School) entitled "Human Rights Misappropriation and Legal Form”.

We are grateful for the funding and co-organization of this event to the VolkswagenStiftung.

Visiting scholar Professor Dr Adam Bodnar appointed as Polish Minister of Justice!

Prof. Dr Adam Bodnar was sworn in as Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General of Poland in Donald Tusk's cabinet on Wednesday, 13 December 2023. As part of the Global Faculty, he has been a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cologne since February 2022 and will remain so until January 2024, during which time he has provided long-term support for the work of the Academy for European Human Rights Protection. In addition to supervising courses, seminars and doctoral students, his duties at the Academy have included participating in conferences.

Professor Bodnar's academic work focuses on constitutional law and human rights. He was the Commissioner for Civil Rights in Poland, whose aim is to protect citizens from unlawful state behaviour and to preserve human rights. Professor Bodnar was and is involved in numerous non-governmental organisations, e.g. Client Earth Poland, which are dedicated to the protection of human rights. He is also the author or co-author of numerous scientific publications, particularly in the field of human rights. Adam Bodnar has been honoured with European and international awards for his work.

We are delighted for Professor Bodnar and wish him all the best for his important tasks as Minister of Justice!

more news

Angelika Nußgerger & Claus Kreß, Gerechtigkeit als Utopie?, Völkerrechtliche Verbrechen in der Ukraine, in: Politikum, Heft 4/23, p. 11-17

J. Miklasová, Dissolution of the Soviet Union Thirty Years On: Re-Appraisal of the Relevance of the Principle of Uti Possidetis Iuris, in Viñuales/Clapham/Boisson de Chazournes/Hébié (eds.), The International Legal Order in the XXIst Century, Brill, 2023

Júlia Miklasová, Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on International Law: How States Use the UN General Assembly to Create International Obligations. By Rossana Deplano, British Yearbook of International Law, 2022

Angelika Nußberger & Lauri Mälksoo, Völkerrecht à la russe, Multipolarität versus Universalität, in: Osteuropa, 73. Jahrgang, Heft 7-9/2023, p. 193-208

Angelika Nußberger, Was ist gerecht? Globale Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen im Vergleich, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 7.11.2023 [in German]

Angelika Nußberger & Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni, Chatting with Angelika Nußberger, Völkerrechtsblog, 13.10.2023

Angelika Nußberger, Entzweiung im Völkerrecht, Das Ringen um die Deutung des Völkerrechts zwischen Russland und dem Westen 1992-2022, in: Sicherheitsordnung in Europa, Analysen und Perspektiven nach dem Ende der Geschichte, p. 51-76, 2023

Sergii Masol, From Tartu and Bandung: Decolonising the Debates on the Russo-Ukrainian War, International Law Blog, 9 October 2023

Angelika Nußberger, „Money Talks“ im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen europäischen Freiheitsrechten und Persönlichkeitsschutz, in: Europäisches Steuerverfassungsrecht, 2023, p. 129-141

Angelika Nußberger, Die Wissenschaftskultur der Staatsrechtslehre in einer Welt von ChatGPT, in: DVBl, Heft 17, 2023, Editorial, S. I

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