Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights
Edited by Başak Çalı, Ledi Bianku, and Iulia Motoc
Author Information
Başak Çalı Professor of International Law at the Hertie School in Berlin and Co-Director of the School's Centre for Fundamental Rights. She is an expert in international law and institutions, international human rights law and policy. She has authored publications on theories of international law, the relationship between international law and domestic law, standards of review in international law, interpretation of human rights law, legitimacy of human rights courts, and implementation of human rights judgments. Çali is the Chair of European Implementation Network and a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex. She has acted as a Council of Europe expert on the European Convention on Human Rights since 2002. She has extensive experience in training members of the judiciary and lawyers across Europe in the field of human rights law. She received her PhD in International Law from the University of Essex in 2003.
Ledi Bianku is an Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg where he teaches EU Fundamental Rights, ECHR law, Refugee Law, and European Health Law. He is an Associate tenant with Doughty Streets Chamber in London. He served as judge of the European Court of Human Rights 2008-2019 and as member of the Venice Commission for Democracy through Law. He taught Public International Law, EU law, and Human Rights law at the University of Tirana Law Faculty and at the Magistrates School in Albania, and as visiting professor in several European Universities.
Iulia Motoc is a Judge at the European court on Human Rights and Professor at the University of Bucharest. She has taught at several universities in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and United States. She was a Special Guest Professor at the EUI University in Florence and a Senior Fellow at 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:
Ledi Bianku, University of Strasbourg
Eva Brems, Ghent University
Başak Çalı, Hertie School, Berlin
Stewart Cunningham, independent researcher
Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Ghent University
Kristina Hatas, Hertie School, Berlin
Francesca Ippolito, University of Cagliari
Violeta Moreno-Lax, Queen Mary University of London
Iulia Motoc, European Court on Human Rights and the University of Bucharest
Carmen Pérez González, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Bianca Selejan-Gutan, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
Ksenija Turkovic, European Court of Human Rights