Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights

Key competences

• Research, teaching and consulting in the fields of Human Rights, CSR, Development Cooperation, Torture Prevention and Asylum and Migration Issues
• Monitoring on the prevention of torture (national and international level)

Professional record

• Head of the Interdisciplinary Research Platform "Human Rights in the European Context" at the University of Vienna
• University Chair for International Human Rights Law at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Law, Department for European, International and Comparative Law
• FRALEX Senior Expert/International Expert to the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency which was established in March 2007.
• Human Rights Consultant for Human Rights Gap Analysis and Advice on OMV's Human Rights Strategy
• United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
• Head of an Independent Human Rights Commission at the Austrian Ministry of Interior
• Austrian National Director Representing the University of Vienna in the E.MA (European Masters Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation)
• Co-Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM) at the University of Vienna

Education

• Dr. Habil. of Constitutional Law University of Vienna
• LL.M. Columbia University New York
• Dr. Iuris. University of Vienna

Publications (selection)

• Author of more than 400 Publications in the fields of constitutional, administrative and international law, human rights as well as development studies
• Editor of Periodicals and Series e.g. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, BIM Human Rights Study Series.
• Commentary on the UN Convention against Torture, Oxford University Press in 2008.
• Human Rights Handbook for Parliamentarians (joint publication of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Inter-Parliamentary Union), Geneva 2005.
• Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina Digest, Kehl/Strasbourg/Arlington 2003;
• Introduction to the International Human Rights Regime, Leiden/Boston 2003;
• Einführung in das Internationale Menschenrechtssystem, Vienna 2002;
• EU-China Human Rights Dialogue (edited together with Xin Chunying), Vienna 2000;
• World Conference on Human Rights - The Contribution of NGOs, Reports and Documents (ed.), Vienna 1994;
• Europarat und Menschenrechte (ed.), Vienna 1994;
• International Human Rights, Documents and Introductory Notes (together with Felix Ermacora and Hannes Tretter), Vienna 1993;
• U.N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, CCPR Commentary, Kehl/Strasbourg/Arlington 1993 (2nd ed. published in 2005, Chinese translation published in 2003);
• Monitoring Human Rights in Europe (edited together with Arie Bloed, Liselotte Leicht and Allan Rosas), Dordrecht 1993;
• Menschenrechte - Grundrechte, Ihre Bedeutung für die Politische Bildung (together with Raoul Kneucker and Hannes Tretter), Vienna 1992;
• Perspectives of an All-European System of Human Rights Protection (edited together with Zdzislaw Kedzia and Anna Korula), Kehl/Strasbourg/Arlington 1991;
• Die Schweiz und die UNO-Menschenrechtspakte - La Suisse et les Pactes des Nations Unies relatif aux Droits de l'Homme (together with Walter Kälin and Giorgio Malinverni), Basel/Frankfurt 1991; second edition Basel/Frankfurt/Bruxelles 1997;
• Human Rights in Developing Countries - 1989 Yearbook (edited together with Theresa Swinehart), Kehl/Strasbourg/Arlington 1989;
• UNO-Pakt über bürgerliche und politische Rechte und Fakultativprotokoll - CCPRKommentar, Kehl/Straßburg/Arlington 1989;
• Progress in the Spirit of Human Rights - Festschrift für Felix Ermacora (edited together with Dorothea Steurer and Hannes Tretter), Kehl am Rhein/Strasbourg/Arlington 1988;
• Politische Grundrechte, Vienna 1988;
• Die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention in der Rechtsprechung der österreichischen Höchstgerichte (edited together with Felix Ermacora and Hannes Tretter), Vienna 1983;

Membership in professional bodies/networks

• Member of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
• Member of AHRI-COST Network (Association of Human Rights Institution - The role of the European Union in the United Nations Human Rights Reform)

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