The European Convention on Human Rights and General International Law
Edited by Anne van Aaken and Iulia Motoc
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Edited by Anne van Aaken, Professor for Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Iulia Motoc, Judge, European Court on Human Rights
Anne van Aaken is a Professor for Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International and European Law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She was Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and taught as a guest professor at numerous universities in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. She was a Global Law Professor at NYU in 2016 and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin in 2010/11. Van Aaken was also a Vice-President of ESIL, President of the Programmatic Steering Board of the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law, Vice-President of the European Association of Law and Economics, and is a Member of ILA Committees. She has been awarded an Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professorship in Germany and will take on her new position at the University of Hamburg in fall of 2018.
Iulia Motoc is a Judge at the European court on Human Rights and Professor at the University of Bucharest. She taught at several universities in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and United States. She was Special Guest Professor at EUI University in Florence and Senior Fellow in NYU and Yale School of Law. Motoc was also a Member and President of the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights (2000-2007) UN Special Rapporteur of the Democratic Republic of Congo (2001-2004), Member and Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Committee ( 2006-2013), and Judge of the Constitutional Court of Romania (2010-2014).
Contributors:
Anne van Aaken, Professor for Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), Former Vice-President of the European Society of International Law
Hasan Bakirci, Deputy Registrar, Second Section, Registry of the European Court of Human Rights
Samantha Besson, Professor of Public International Law and European Law, University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Antonio Augusto Cancado Trindade, Judge of the International Court of Justice; Former President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Emeritus Professor of International Law of the University of Brasilia; Former President of the Latin American Society of International Law; Member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, and of the Institut de Droit International
James Crawford, Judge of the International Court of Justice, formerly Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Law at Jesus College, Cambridge and Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (Cambridge)
Isil Karakas, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, former Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights
Amalia Keene, Associate at Three Crowns, formerly Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice
Marko Milanovic, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham School of Law; Vice-President, European Society of International Law
Iulia Motoc, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, Professor of International law University of Bucharest, former Judge at the Constitutional Court of Romania
Angelika Nußberger, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights
Riccardo Pavoni, Professor of International and European Law, University of Siena
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Ordinary Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University Lisboa
Guido Raimondi, President of the European Court of Human Rights
Anja Seibert-Fohr, Hengstberger Chair of Public Law, International Law and Human Rights and Director of the Institute for Constitutional Law and Legal Philosophy, University of Heidelberg
Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights, Associate Member of the Institute of International Law
Geir Ulfstein: Professor of Law, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo
Johann Justus Vasel, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Law School University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
Ganna Yudkivska, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights
Ineta Ziemele, President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia; Professor at the Riga Graduate School of Law; former Judge and Section President at the European Court of Human Rights