Policy Forum: Contemporary European Human Rights Network and Quest of European Standard

 

The Institute for European Studies (IES) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Fundamental Rights & Constitutionalism Research Group (FRC) kindly invite you to their next Policy Forum / VUB Law and Criminology Talks, to be held on February 8, 2011 with Jukka Viljanen from Tampere University (Finland)

The IES is hosting professor Jukka Viljanen, a specialist on fundamental rights related issues, who has kindly offered to give a presentation in a Policy Forum as a specific topic "Contemporary European Human Rights Network and Quest of European Standard".
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been in the avant-garde of human rights law, especially in the field of civil and political rights. In his lecture Prof. Jukka Viljanen discusses the opportunities of the ECtHR to achieve improvements in the contemporary human rights law in co-operation with other European actors.
The presentation also develops the discourse over the network of international human rights instruments and its role not just regionally but at the universal level. The analysis emphasizes an evolutive approach to human rights interpretation and the problems of developing a European standard in the current community of heterogeneous contracting states.
 

 

Participation is free of charge and open to all, but due to space limitations, registration is required.  Those wanting to participate can register by sending an e-mail to events@ies.be

The programme will start at 12:15 with a lunch reception, followed by the presentation at 12:30

Location:
VUB Campus Room D.2.06
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels