The unit focuses on the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter, the European Torture Convention, the European Framework Convention for the Protection of Minorities and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. It covers both the international systems that operate these instruments and their implementation at the national level.
Opportunities are also provided to students and graduates of the University of Nottingham through the HRLC’s internships and student assistant programmes. Through these programmes students support the work of the unit as well as gaining valuable transferable skills and increasing their experience within a human rights field.
Sangeeta Shah, Professor of International and Human Rights Law
Mariana Kato, Teaching Associate
Anna-Maria Piskopani, Research Fellow
Magdalena Zabrocka, Teaching Associate
Explore a selection of our past projects here:
Between January 2011 and July 2020, the unit produced regular reports on specific fundamental rights issues in the UK for the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). These included analysis of UK laws and practices in light of fundamental rights and principles of EU law.
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Between September 2017 and July 2019, the Unit engaged in a project to analyse and critique the Council of Europe procedures for the execution of judgments of the ECtHR and the remedial steps taken by States found by the Court to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
As one of the six research units within the HRLC, you can find all our unit publications, news and events on the publications, news and events pages.
School of LawUniversity of NottinghamUniversity Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD
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