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Lunch Hour Lecture | Changing State Behaviour: The Role of International and Human Rights Courts
10 December 2024, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Professor Veronika Fikfak will address the role of international and human rights courts and the limits of what their judgments can achieve.
This event is free.
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About the lecture:
What role do human rights courts play in changing behaviour of states? The number of human rights cases before international courts is on the rise. Litigants are increasingly turning to European and Inter-American courts to compel states to undertake preventative measures to redress the effects of climate change; in response to the invasion of Ukraine, states are suing Russia for human rights violations and looking at ways to expropriate its assets to provide reparations for Ukraine; and in relation to Gaza, certain states have even brought proceedings before the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of committing genocide. In her talk, Veronika Fikfak will address the role of international and human rights courts in such contexts and the limits of what their judgments can achieve.
About the Speaker
Professor Veronika Fikfak
Professor of Human Rights and International Law at UCL
Veronika Fikfak is a Professor of Human Rights and International Law at University College London, School of Public Policy and a co-Director of the UCL Institute for Human Rights. Veronika leads a team of six researchers on the ERC project Human Rights Nudge, which looks at how states respond to judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. From 2025, she will be in charge of her next ERC project on access to international human rights justice and a UCL Grand Challenges Project on barriers to international climate justice for children. Veronika is Secretary General of the European Society of International Law and a managing editor of the American Journal of International Law Unbound. She also serves as a judge ad hoc at the European Court of Human Rights.