Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt am Oder

Summer Course The European System of Human Rights Protection

Frankfurt am Oder 10-21 september 2012 

The Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany conducts the 14th Summer Course “The European System of Human Rights Protection" 09-22 September 2012 Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Faculty of Law.

The Summer Course, held in English, which is one of the cheapest courses in Europe, will deal in detail specifically and exclusively with the European System for the protection of human rights. Although there are numerous summer courses and other special study programs within Europe on human rights protection, this course concentrates on an integrated treatment of the various European systems and of specifically European issues of human rights protection, that is, with important matters relevant to over forty European countries with diverse political, economic and social systems.

The subject matter, therefore, includes human rights protection under the regimes of the Council of Europe (the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter), the European Community, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (Helsinki Accords), as well as that on the universal level of public international law to the extent it is relevant.

The treatment of the substantive regimes and their specific rights catalogues will be set against the background of a consideration of the philosophical, historical, political, economic and sociological aspects of human rights, and include practical institutional matters such as complaint procedures as well as developments such as in the area of ‘New Rights’. Practical and contemporary issues, such as the protection of human rights in situations of war or civil disorder will also be addressed.

This comprehensive course has been organised by and will be presented by a dedicated group of experienced experts and  teachers from universities in eleven European countries, co-ordinated by the Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder) (Germany). The other participants are the Universities of Lund (Sweden), Sevilla (Spain), Rotterdam, Utrecht (The Netherlands), Aberystwyth, Hull (United Kingdom), Rennes I (France), Maribor (Slovenia), Malta, Vienna and Salzburg (Austria).