E.MA Directors & Members of Governing Bodies

E.MA Directors and Members of governing bodies

EIUC and E.MA benefit from the academic expertise of eminent professors from all EU Member States. All these professors contribute to the joint endeavours to promote human rights education and awareness raising through the E.MA Programme and international conferences, training courses, and other activities organised by EIUC.

Below is a short presentation of the E.MA Directors for the academic year 2004/2005:

Gudmundur Alfredsson  (Jonas Grimheden in 2005/2006)

Title: Professor of International Law and Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Department: The Faculty of Law/Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
University of Lund
Fields of Competence: The UN human rights standards and monitoring procedures, self-determination, self-determination, and indigenous rights.

Wolfgang Benedek

Title: Director of the Institute of International Law and International Relations at the University of Graz; Director of the European Training Centre on Human Rights and Democracy
Department: Institute of International Law and International Relations
University of Graz
Fields of competence: International and European Human Rights Law, International Economic and Development Law, Globalisation and Human Rights, Human Rights in South East Europe, Human Rights in Africa and Human Rights and Democracy.

Florence Benoît-Rohmer

Title: Professeur de Droit Public. Présidente de l’Université Robert Schuman
Department: Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes
Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg
Fields of competence: Droits de l’homme.

Bojko Bucar

Title: Professor Dr. Assoc. Prof.
Department: Political Science, International Relations Division
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Ljubljana
Fields of Competence: International Relations, International Law.

Iain Cameron (Karin Ahman in 2005/2006)

Title: Professor of International Law
Department: Department of Law
Uppsala University
Fields of Competence: International Law, Human Rights, International Criminal Law, Comparative Constitutional Law.

Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo (Acting Director: Prof. Carmen Márquez Carrasco)

Title: Professor of Public International Law and International Relations
Department: Department of Administrative and International Law
Fields of competence: Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law.

Horst Fischer

Title: Professor Dr. in International Law
Department: Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (Institut für Friedenssicherungsrecht und Humanitäres Völkerrecht/IFHV)
Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany
Fields of competence: International Law, International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, Democracy, Disaster Response.

Cees Flinterman

Title: Professor Dr. LL.M. Professor of Human Rights
Department: Department of Law
Utrecht University
Fields of competence: International Law, Constitutional Law, Comparative Law.

Hans Giessmann

Title: Professor Dr. Dr.
Department: International Politics
University of Hamburg
Fields of competence: International Security, NATO, German Security Policy.

Felipe Gómez

Title: Professor of Public International Law
Department: International and European Law
University of Deusto, Bilbao
Fields of competence: Public International Law and International Human Rights Law.

Guy Haarscher

Title: Professor of philosophy of law, political philosophy and human rights at the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles), at Duke University School of Law (Durham, N.C., USA) at the Central European University (Budapest), and at the College of Europe (Bruges).
Department: Department of Law
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Fields of competence: In the domain of human rights and democracy: philosophy of human rights; ethnic minority protection; theories of democracy; freedom of expression and its limits; comparative analysis of religious freedom (Europe/United States).

Gábor Halmai

Title: Professor, Dsc
Department: Constitutional Law and Political Science
University of Györ
Fields of competence: constitutional adjudication of fundamental rights, freedom of expression.

Kirsten Hastrup

Title: Professor
Department: Institute of Anthropology
University of Copenhagen
Fields of competence: Anthropology and human rights; cultural rights; legal cultures; questions of universality and cultural diversity; discrimination and toleration.

Attracta Ingram

Title: Professor of Politics
Department: Politics
National University of Ireland, Dublin
Fields of competence: Political, Legal and Social Philosophy Specialism: Philosophy of Human Rights.

Jan Klabbers

Title: Professor of International Organisations Law
Department: Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Department of Public Law
University of Helsinki
Fields of competence: International Law, international organisations.

Arthurs Kucs

Title: Dr. iur.
Department: European and International Law
University of Latvia
Fields of competence: Human Rights.

Eva Maria Lassen

Title: Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow
Institute: The Danish Institute for Human Rights
Fields of competence: History and human rights. Religious traditions and human rights (particularly Judaism, Christianity and Islam).

Jean-Paul Lehners

Title: Vice-Recteur de l’Université du Luxembourg; Professeur d’Histoire
Department: Faculté des Lettres, des Sciences Humaines, des Arts et des Sciences de l’Education
Université du Luxembourg
Fields of competence: Histoire économique et sociale, Histoire de l’expansion européenne, Démographie et systèmes familiaux.

Paul Lemmens

Title: Professor
Department: Institute for Human Rights
Fields of competence: Human Rights Law, Public Law.

Lauri Mälksoo

Title: Associate Professor, Holder of the Chair of International Law
Department: Faculty of Law
Tartu University
Fields of competence: Public International Law.

Vital Moreira

Title: Professor of Public Law Director of the Human Rights Centre
Department: Faculty of Law Human Rights Centre of “Ius Gentium Conimbrigae”
University of Coimbra
Fields of competence: Public Law, Human Rights.

Manfred Nowak

Title: Univ. Prof. Dr. Professor of Public Law and Human Rights, Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM)
Department: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM)
University of Vienna
Fields of competence: Human Rights.

Rory O’Connell

Title: Dr. Director of the Human Rights LLM Programme
Department: Law
Queen’s University, Belfast
Fields of competence: Human Rights and Equality, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law.

Michael O’Flaherty

Title: Reader in Human Rights; Co-Director, Human Rights Law Centre
Department: School of Law
University of Nottingham
Fields of competence: Human Rights.

Peter Osusky

Title: MUDr, Professor
Department: Faculty of Law
Comenius University of Bratislava.

Dimitra Papadopoulou

Title: Professor of Social Psychology and International Education, Director of the UNESCO Chair on Education for Human Rights, Democracy and Peace
Department: UNESCO Chair on Education for Human Rights, Democracy and Peace. School of Psychology, (Dept. of Social and Clinical Psychology)
Aristotle University Thessaloniki
Fields of competence: Education for Human Rights and Peace, Culture of Peace, Social Psychology of Interpersonal Relations, Social Psychology and Peace Studies.

Antonio Papisca

Title: Director, Professor of International Relations
Department: Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples
University of Padua
Fields of competence: International Relations and International Human Rights Protection.

Adalberto Perulli

Title: Professor of Labour Law, Director of the Department of Law
Department: Department of Law
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Fields of competence: Economic and Social Rights.

Stelios Perrakis

Title: Professor of International and European Institutions, President of the Department of International and European Studies of Panteion University, Director of the European Centre for Research and Training on Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, Member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (E.C.R.I.) of the Council of Europe, Member of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, Member of the National Commission for Human Rights, Holder of an ad personam Jean Monnet Chair “Democracy and Human Rights in the European Union”
Department: Department of International and European Studies
Panteion University, Athens
Fields of competence: International Law, International and European Human Rights Law, Humanitarian Law, International Justice, Minorities, Refugees Law, Use of Force and Maintenance of International Peace and Security.

Teresa Pizarro Beleza

Title: Profa. Doutora, Associate Professor
Department: Department of Public Law (Criminal Law, Women’s Law)
New University Lisbon
Fields of competence: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Women’s Law.

Ian Refalo

Title: Professor
Department: Faculty of Law
University of Malta.

William Schabas

Title: Professor of Human Rights Law Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights
Department: Department of Law
National University of Ireland, Galway
Fields of competence: International Human Rights Law, International Minority Rights Law, International Criminal Courts.

Frédéric Sudre

Title: Directeur de l’Institut de Droit Européen des Droits de l’Homme (IDEDH), Professeur Agrégé de Droit Public
Department: Public Law
Université de Montpellier
Fields of competence: European Law on Human Rights.

Markku Suksi

Title: Professor of Public Law
Department: Law
Åbo Akademi University
Fields of competence: Participation (elections and the referendum), autonomy, minority issues, comparative law, constitutional law, public law.

Roman Wieruszewski

Title: Prof. Dr hab.
Department: Poznan Human Rights Centre at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz University
Fields of competence: Constitutional Law, Human Rights Law, European Public Law and Refugee Law.

Ria Wolleswinkel

Title: Associate Professor
Department: Criminal Law and Criminology
Maastricht University
Fields of competence: women and law, gender and diversity.

Dainius Žalimas

Title: Associate Professor
Department: Department of International and European Law, Law Faculty
Vilnius University
Fields of competence: Public International Law, Human Rights, international organisations.