University of Tampere, School of Management
Research Group of Public Law
Thursday 22 October and Friday 23 October 2015
Workshop programme
Day 1 Thursday 22 October 2015
14.15-16.30 Opening lectures* Place: Pinni B 1100, Pinni B Building, First floor
”Reconciliation between Human Rights and Development Policy”
Dr. Nina Nordström, Head of the Human Rights Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“Why the United Kingdom is so Uncomfortable with Strasbourg?”
Dr. Ed Bates, University of Leicester, author of the book ”Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights”
“Linking European Consensus and International Human Rights Law”
Dr. Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, University of Liverpool, author of the book “European Consensus and the Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights”
* These lectures are arranged in co-operation with the Course of Fighting against human rights violations and social injustices
16.45-18.00 ECtHR Poster Café: participants are invited to provide posters introducing their research and its relation to the European Court of Human Rights to other participants. Place: Cabinet between Pinni B and Pinni A buildings. First floor.
18.00-21 Dinner. Informal gathering to meet the participants,
Place: Café Pinni, Pinni A Building, First floor
Day 2: Friday 23 October 2015
Doctoral Workshop 9.15-16.30
Place: Pinni B 3116, Pinni B Building, Third floor
9.15-9.45 Key note presentation “Some observations on the ECtHR and development of its doctrines: Interpretation in light of the object and purpose of the Convention”
Dr. Matti Pellonpää, Former Judge of the ECtHR, Justice at the Supreme Administrative Court
9.45-11.30 Session I: “Living instrument”
(Facilitators Ed Bates & Jukka Viljanen)
Kristiina Honko, University of Tampere
Rachael Ita, University of Derby, the United Kingdom
Dmitrij Lisovkij, Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, Spain
Elina Todorov University of Tampere
Aristi Volou, University of Leicester, the United Kingdom
11.30-12.15 Lunch Break, Restaurant Aleksis, Technopolis
12.15-13.45 Session II: “Emerging consensus”
(Facilitators Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou & Pauli Rautiainen)
Oliver Butler, University of Cambridge, the United Kingdom
Nasiya Daminova, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Elena Ervas, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy
Emma Lehtinen University of Tampere
Elina Pekkarinen University of Tampere
Coffee Break
14.15-15.30 Session III: “Effective and practical”
(Facilitators Matti Pellonpää & Jukka Viljanen)
Başak Bağlayan & Johannes Hendrik Fahner, University of Luxemburg
Marco Bocchi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Heta Heiskanen, University of Tampere
Flutura Kusari, University of Ghent, Belgium
Helen Küchler, Europa-Institut Saarbrücken, Germany
15.30-16.30 Final session. Summary discussion: What have we learned?
16.30 Closing of the Workshop
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