Association of Human Rights Institutes
January 2024

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to the first AHRI newsletter of 2024. We did not send out an AHRI newsletter in December due to the summer holidays here in the southern hemisphere.

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AHRI News

AHRI 2024 Conference

The Annual AHRI Conference in 2024 has the theme “Human Rights in a Polarized World – Realizing Human Rights in the Green and Just Transition.” The conference will take place in Lund, Sweden, from 12-14 September 2024, and will be jointly organised by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), the Faculty of Law of Lund University (LU) and Lund University’s profile area on Human Rights, and AHRI. 

The deadline for submission for both paper proposals and panel discussions is 15 March 2024.  Click here to access the call for papers. 

For more information, visit the conference website.

AHRI Members' events and calls

Apply for LLM/MA in Human Rights · 1 year · Central European University, Austria
Combining theoretical and practical perspectives, these programs prepare you to engage with challenges to human rights protection in an age of skepticism and populism. A short internship program with local NGOs, a course at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the diverse in-class activities offer unique experience-based learning opportunities.

Application deadline: 1 February 2024

https://legal.ceu.edu/

 

Summer Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University Washington College of Law invites applications for its 2024 summer school on advanced studies on human rights and humanitarian law which will hold from 27 May – 14 June 2024. The Program offers a broad spectrum of classes taught by over 40+ world-renowned faculty members in both English and Spanish over the course of three intensive weeks. Participants with a law degree and non-lawyers with a strong interest and tracked experience in the field of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law are welcomed to apply. Through this Program, the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law provides the unique opportunity to learn and engage with judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Special Rapporteurs and Committee members of United Nations, members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, experts from prominent NGOs, and professors from all over the world. Deadline for application is 1 May 2024, find out more here

 

Bonavero Institute Student Fellowships 

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford invites application for its Student Fellowships. The aim of the Bonavero Student Fellowships programme is to provide opportunities for students to apply and improve their knowledge of human rights law and to obtain a valuable platform to develop careers in this field. Students will have the opportunity to work with a range of organisations working in the field of human rights law, including the rule of law. These, among others, include senior appellate courts, world-leading NGOs and research institutions. The Student Fellowships Programme gives our students a chance to explore their professional options in a variety of otherwise unpaid placements, both within the UK and across the world. Deadline for application is 19 May 2024, find out more here.

 

Human Rights and Northern Ireland Workshop 

The Human Rights Centre at Queen’s University Belfast and the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge will co-host a workshop in the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast on Friday 27 September 2024. The Workshop will be held in conjunction with the European Human Rights Law Review and co-organised by members of the Editorial team. Workshop participants are invited to propose papers on Human Rights and Northern Ireland, which may be broadly construed to encompass the following non-exhaustive list of topics: Post-Brexit human rights protection, including by way of the "dedicated mechanism; The legacy of "the troubles" and the role of human rights litigation; The pursuit of a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland; Reproductive rights and freedoms; Journalists' rights and freedoms; Religious rights and freedoms; LGBT+ rights and freedoms. These topics are wholly illustrative, the organisers would welcome abstracts on any topic within the theme of the Workshop broadly construed. To propose a paper, please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words by 29 February 2024, find out more here.

 

Call for papers: Comparative Law Review

"Comparative Law Review" is inviting submissions for its next volume (30), which will be published in December 2024. CLR (ISSN 0866-9449, e-ISSN 2391-7644) is a diamond open access, peer-reviewed and refereed international journal published by the Faculty of Law and Administration at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland) since 1989. 
The journal is indexed with and included in Index Copernicus Journals Master List, ERIH PLUS, CEEOL, DOAJ and SCOPUS (starting from vol. 25).

In this call, we specifically invite submissions addressing legal aspects and challenges posed by climate change, as well as other factors connected with the environment. Given the crucial role that law and lawyers play in environmental governance and strategic litigation within these realms, the relevance and timeliness of comparative research become even more apparent.

The deadline for submissions for CLR vol. 30 is 1 April 2024.

All details about submission procedure and required formatting (guidelines for Authors) are available at the journal's webpage (vide section: ABOUT at http://www.comparativelawreview.umk.pl). Manuscripts can be submitted via online submission system only. 

 

 

Job opportunity: Central European University

 

The Department of Legal Studies at Central European University invites applications for 2 faculty positions (one Assistant Professor and another Associate/Full Professor) in human rights and comparative constitutional law. We seek colleagues with an active research and teaching agenda in these fields. The Department values interdisciplinary research and practical experience.

Application deadline: 29 February 2024

https://www.ceu.edu/job/1-assistant-professor-and-1-associatefull-professor-human-rights-and-comparative-constitutional

 

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