Die Klausuren zur Übung im öffentlichen Recht (gestellt von Dr. Paula Rhein-Fischer) sind nun abholbereit zu den Öffnungszeiten der Akademie.
Es kann zudem nun Einsichtnahme in die Klausuren zur Schwerpunktsbereichsvorlesung "International Human Rights" gewährt werden.
Die Öffnungszeiten der Akademie, sowie die Adresse finden Sie hier.
Dr. Cathérine Van de Graaf contributes to report “Charting progress: A comparative analysis of national LGBTIQ equality action plans in the European Union”
Together with Pieter Cannoot (an assistant professor specializing in Law and Diversity at Ghent University), Cathérine Van de Graaf mapped the state of implementation of national LGBTIQ action plans across the EU member states.
This report provides a detailed overview of the state of implementation in EU Member States of (national) action plans or strategies on LGBTIQ equality. While it does not analyse the state of LGBTIQ equality in the Member States as such, it explores whether and to what degree EU Member States make use of action plans/strategies in order to protect and promote the fundamental rights of LGBTIQ people. As such, the report answers the increasing calls from EU institutions and civil society for comparable data on the human rights situation of LGBTIQ people across the EU. It concentrates on three pivotal phases associated with a national action plan: preparation, content and implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. The report offers an extensive mapping of the key measures, entities, and strategies involved at the national level in developing, adopting, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating these national LGBTIQ action plans.
The full report is now available.
Presentation during the Annual Legal Seminar of the European network of Legal Experts in Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination
During the 2023 Annual Legal Seminar of the European network of Legal Experts in Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination in Brussels in December, they presented their findings to national experts and members of the European Commission.
Cathérine and Pieter's presentation started with an introductory overview of the framework concerning LGBTIQ Equality within the European Union and provided a detailed analysis of the national action plans mapping of the key measures, entities, and strategies involved at the national level in developing, adopting, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating these national LGBTIQ action plans.
The recording of this presentation is available online.
Human rights are universal, apply to all people everywhere, are indivisible and inalienable. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 is based on this fundamental conviction. What this means in academic practice and how deeply this conviction is anchored is most impressively demonstrated by the academic exchange with international colleagues.
This opportunity was offered to a three-person delegation from the Academy for European Human Rights Protection in the week from 4 March to 10 March 2024. The delegation was led by Professor Angelika Nußberger. She was accompanied by Dr Paula Rhein-Fischer and Frederic Kupsch. All three had the opportunity to engage in dialogue with Japanese human rights and constitutional law experts at two conferences at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto and Meiji University in Tokyo.
At the invitation of Professor Masahisa Deguchi, who had already visited the Academy for European Human Rights Protection twice recently and has long maintained close relations with the University of Cologne, the three delegation members gave lectures as part of the "2024 Comparative Research Seminar on Asian, European and International Human Rights between University of Cologne and Ritsumeikan University". In a small circle of high-calibre experts from the fields of law and diplomacy, they discussed sections of Japanese history from the Second World War, aspects of the principles of equality and the regulation of social media. The intensive conference days were rounded off with an excursion to Nara, the former capital of Japan (710 to 784).
The following day, Professor Angelika Nußberger, Dr Paula Rhein Fischer and Frederic Kupsch took part in the "Fifth K-J Joint Workshop: The comparative study of the case law of the ECtHR" of a Korean-Japanese research network on the topic of "Resilience and Sustainability of Human Rights in an Unstable World" at Meiji University in Tokyo. The workshop was organised by Professor Akiko Ejima, whom the Academy had already welcomed as a guest researcher. The workshop and a symposium were part of an annual meeting of a Korean-Japanese research network whose participants conduct research on European human rights protection. The Vietnamese perspective was also represented by a researcher. Professor Nußberger not only gave the keynote speech, but also commented on various papers. Dr Paula Rhein-Fischer and Frederic Kupsch had the opportunity to present their research projects.
The whole trip and especially the last day at Meiji University showed that although we live in an uncertain, unstable world where human rights are under increasing pressure, there are always signs of hope in our everyday work. The close and friendly cooperation between our Korean and Japanese colleagues - despite the historical cultural and social tensions between the two countries - which is based on the same fundamental convictions as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, made a deep impression on us and allows us to look to the future with greater optimism in our work.
We would like to thank our hosts for their warm welcome and their great care for us. Their strong commitment and passion for their research are an inspiration to us. We are already looking forward to welcoming a Japanese delegation to Cologne in September 2024!
Am Mittwoch den 10.04. um 19 Uhr ist Frau Nußberger von Helga Kirchner bei der Veranstaltungsreihe "Lebensromane" eingeladen.
"Europas Zusammenhalt und die Entwicklung in Osteuropa sind ihre Lebensthemen. Angelika Nußberger, geboren in München, studierte zunächst Slawistik, dann Rechtswissenschaften. Sie spricht Englisch, Französisch, Russisch, versteht Italienisch und Spanisch. Die zweifache Mutter legte eine akademische Ausnahmekarriere hin, absolvierte viele Stationen, auch die der Richterin am Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte, und wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet. Gerühmt wird Angelika Nußbergers Offenheit gegenüber anderen Fachperspektiven. Das Recht ist für sie wesentlicher Teil einer zivilisatorischen Gesamtentwicklung im Sinne einer umfassenden Humanität. Gerade in diesen Krisen- und Kriegszeiten ist sie als Expertin europaweit gefragt. Zum Gespräch bringt sie das Memoir Frei – Erwachsenwerden am Ende der Geschichte mit. Die Autorin Lea Ypi ist in Albanien aufgewachsen."
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On 03.04.2024 the article "Globuli gegen Diktaturen" by Prof. Nußberger was published in the FAZ.
"Die Grenzen der gegenwärtigen Menschenrechtssysteme sind durch den Härtetest Russlands offenkundig geworden. Der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte gleicht einem Dampfschiff auf dem Trockenen.
Die Hoffnung war, ein starkes Antibiotikum gegen Diktatur und Menschenrechtsverletzungen zu entwickeln. Herausgekommen sind Globuli. Wer sie einnimmt und daran glaubt, fühlt sich besser. Aber wenn es um Tod und Leben geht, merkt man noch nicht einmal, dass man sie geschluckt hat."
Rede the full article here. [German]
Prof Dr DDr Angelika Nußberger commented in the Tagesspiegel on the question "Resilience against right-wing populism: Does the Federal Constitutional Court need protection?".
In the article, she commented on the demand for increased protection of the Federal Constitutional Court.
Read the complete statement in the Tagesspiegel here. [German]
This year's Cologne HPMCC team has qualified for the Final Oral Round in Strasbourg!
The three-day competition started with the opening ceremony on Friday afternoon, where the participating teams were able to get to know each other for the first time and were warmly welcomed by the organizers from ELSA Ankara.
The next day began with a challenging pleading by our Applicant representatives, in which they were finally able to demonstrate their skills after months of preparation.
This was followed by some well-deserved sightseeing and a nice get-together with the other teams before it was the Respondents' representatives' turn the next day.
The stay ended with an exciting awards ceremony and a closing party at which all the teams were able to celebrate their achievements together.
A special thank you to the organizers from ELSA Ankara and all the other participating teams for making the regional round such a wonderful experience!
Former Federal Minister Gerhart Baum was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Law at the University of Cologne at a ceremony on 30 January 2024. The award ceremony was organised by the Academy for European Human Rights Protection and took place in the presence of Lord Mayor Henriette Reker, the Rector of the University, Professor Dr Joybrato Mukherjee, and numerous members of the Faculty of Law.
Gerhart Baum, born in 1932, has been a member of the FDP since 1954 and was a member of the German Bundestag from 1972 to 1994. From 1972 to 1978 he was Parliamentary State Secretary and from 1978 to 1982 Federal Minister of the Interior in the social-liberal Federal Government led by Helmut Schmidt. From 1992, he worked for the UN, first as head of the German delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva and later as UN Special Representative for Human Rights in Sudan. Today he is active with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Baum works as a lawyer and has been involved in a number of successful constitutional complaints before the Federal Constitutional Court, for example against the law on combating organised crime (large-scale eavesdropping). Gerhart Baum also successfully lodged a complaint against the North Rhine-Westphalian law on secret online searches of private computers and was one of the complainants against the Data Retention Act. As a lawyer, Gerhart Baum has also represented the victims of the attack during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and the Love Parade disaster in Duisburg in 2010.
Rector Professor Dr Joybrato Mukherjee said: "With this honorary doctorate, the university is honouring Gerhart Baum's multifaceted commitment to freedom and civil rights in our country and around the world. He is a role model for our students, also because of his clear words against right-wing extremism."
Professor Dr Bernhard Kempen, Dean of the Faculty of Law, emphasised how rarely the faculty awards honorary doctorates. He emphasised the concept of freedom that Baum always championed, which he sees as rooted in the tradition of political enlightenment: "Growing up, I was influenced by the extent to which Gerhart Baum advocated an idea of freedom that is not restricted to the free market. His commitment to fundamental and human rights is another reason why we will remember his time as Minister of the Interior for a long time."
