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Upcoming Public Event: Book Discussion “The Refugee Convention and its Protocol – What Future Role for International Refugee Law?”

On 16 May 2024, the Berlin Potsdam Research Group “The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?” takes great pleasure in inviting you to the book discussion “The Refugee Convention and its Protocol – What Future Role for International Refugee Law?”.

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KFG welcomes new guest researcher: Dr. Alfredo Crosato Neumann

The Research Group welcomes Dr. Alfredo Crosato Neumann as a guest researcher.

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Call for Papers: "Double Standards and International Law"

The Research Group calls for papers for a workshop on "Double Standards and International Law" which will be held in July 2024.

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Public Lectures and Other Events

30 November 2017: Thomas Franck Lecture by Angelika Nußberger


On 30 November 2017, the Research Group hosted a Thomas Franck Lecture by Professor Angelika Nußberger, Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights on the topic

“From high hopes to disillusionment? Human rights protection in Europe in an ever more hostile environment”.

Angelika Nußberger is the German judge at the European Court of Human Rights and since February 2017 Vice-President of the court. She is a professor for constitutional, international and comparative law at the University of Cologne where she is also the director of the Institute of Eastern European Law. From 2004 to 2010, she was member of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labour Organisation, and from 2006 to 2010 substitute member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. Her areas of research include the development of the constitutional jurisdiction, the influence of public international law on the development of the law in central and Eastern Europe, international social law, and the transformation of the social security systems in the states of central and Eastern Europe.

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