On 2 June 2023, the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the
Hertie School is hosting a workshop on the Legitimate Aims and Ulterior Purposes in International Human Rights Law. The workshop, co-organised by PluriCourts at the University of Oslo and the Academy
for European Human Rights Protection at the University of Cologne, aims
to explore this issue in light of recent global jurisprudential
developments, in particular those of the European Court of Human Rights,
and the pressing contemporary challenges to democracy and the rule of
law.
Here is a brief description of the call:
'International human rights law (‘IHRL’) requires that states respect
their international commitments. Restrictions in human rights are
generally not permitted if they do not have a legitimate aim. However,
the question of how to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate aims has
tended to stay in the background of human rights jurisprudence and
theory until relatively recently.
We invite paper submissions
that analyse the demarcation of legitimate aims and/or ulterior purposes
in contemporary IHRL. We welcome papers that employ normative,
doctrinal, critical or social science methods. We also particularly
welcome papers that employ comparative methods drawing on public or
human rights law, and other fields of law (public or private) to analyse
legitimate aims and/or ulterior purposes, as well as papers that draw
on political and democratic theory.
The workshop is open to both
established and early-career scholars and practitioners, including
advanced PhD students. It welcomes submissions from researchers of human
rights law and fundamental rights as well as inter-disciplinary
researchers, encompassing political philosophy, political science,
sociology and anthropology.
Interested participants should provide
an abstract in Word format of no more than 500 words. Together with
their abstracts, in the same Word document, applicants should provide
the following information: name, affiliation, the title of the proposed
paper and an email address.
To submit an abstract, please send an email to fundamentalrights[at]hertie-school[dot]org by 15 February 2023 with the heading ‘Submission Legitimate Aims and Ulterior Purposes Workshop’. Read the full Call for Papers here.
Speakers will be informed of the acceptance of their proposals by 1 March 2023 and will be required to submit a draft paper by 19 May 2022.'
