Human Rights Justifications in the EU and Beyond

This book project presentation on “Human Rights Justifications in the EU and Beyond” from WP3 of the Horizon Europe project HRJust (States’ Practice of Human Rights Justification) offers a diverse array of scholarship with expertise in EU constitutional law, human rights and international law, philosophy, and political science, to explore domestic, European, and global dimensions of the use of human rights as justifications.

The contributors to the volume will utilise a broad range of methodologies to examine how and when states and the EU may legitimately appeal to human rights as justifications and identify when such deployments of human rights are legitimate. In the webinar, we will present the core ideas of the project and will be happy to receive feedback and comments.

Speakers
Ester Herlin-Karnell, Professor of EU law, Gothenburg University (Sweden)
Enzo Rossi, Associate professor in political theory, Amsterdam University (The Netherlands)
Aravind Ganesh, Lecturer in Law, Sussex University (United Kingdom)
Claudio Corradetti, Associate Professor in philosophy, Tor Vergata Rome University (Italy)
Ayelet Banai, Lecturer in Political Theory, Haifa University (Israel)
Nikola Schmidt, Senior Researcher, Institute of International Relations Prague (Czech Republic)

Please register for the event HERE. We look forward to seeing you there! 

Webinar Series Overview 
The Human Rights Justification: Empirical Webinar Series, part of the Horizon Europe HRJust project, explores how states invoke human rights to justify legislative and political decisions, focusing on climate change, migration, and COVID-19. The webinar series is organised by IIR research team members of the HRJust project, Dr Federica Cristani and Ms Barbora Lukešová. 

The series fosters knowledge sharing on these themes, emphasizing inclusive democracy, gender, intersectionality, and sociological and anthropological perspectives. You can find more information on the Intersect Observatory’s digital library.