Human and Fundamental Rights Working Group

The Human and Fundamental Rights Working Group provides a forum for researchers to discuss issues related to the protection of human rights at domestic, regional and international levels. As of April 2019, this Working Group combines the former Fundamental Rights Working Group (established in May 2011) and the Human Rights Working Group-Law in Action Project (newly relaunched in April 2018). The Working Group organises ad hoc events with invited external and internal speakers, and welcomes EUI researchers’ presentations. It also provides an informal forum for discussing ideas, papers and case law through monthly meetings of its members. Our ambition is to keep track of the latest international and European legal developments and to contribute to research on human rights protection carried out in various forms at the EUI’s LAW Department and beyond.

Events in Academic Year 2023-2024

• 18.10.2023, CJEU in Focus: T-600/21 WS and Others v Frontex – Hiding Behind the backs of Member States? Co-hosted with the EU Law Working Group.
• 19.10.2023, Venezuela's Human Rights Crisis: A Glimpse into the Past and Present - Screening of the documentary "Miradas de Memoria", followed by discussion.
• 23.10.2023, International Organizations as Law-Makers – International Law in the Age of Institutions together with the International Economic Law and Policy Working Group and the International Law Working Group Co-organised with the International Economic Law and Policy Working Group and the International Law Working Group.
• 07.11.2023, Roundtable on Israel-Palestine: Beyond the Application and Violation of International Law Co-organised with the EUI Working Group on Palestine, the International Law Working Groups, and the Legal and Political Theory Working Group.
• 20.11.2023, Structural Injustice and Workers; Rights Co-organised with the Constitutionalism and Politics Working Group.
• 01.12.2023, The proceduralisation of proportionality co-organised with the Digital Public Sphere Working Group.
• 12.12.2023, Private dispute resolution and the right to access to remedy in transnational business and human rights EUI Internal Event.
• 18.01.2024, Portraits of women in international law, new names and forgotten faces together with the International Law WG.
• 29.03.2024, Horizontal rights: an institutional approach co-organised with the Constitutionalism and Politics Working Group.
• 02.04.2024, Gender in sport and the intriguing world of competitive chess.
• 10.05.2024, Grievance formation, rights and remedies.
• 05.06.2024, Abortion and the Limits of Liberal Constitutionalism together with the Constitutionalism and Politics Working Group.

Past Events