Venice Academy of Human Rights - (Dis)Integration through Human Rights: Citizens, Courts, Communities – Venice, Italy

Venue: Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice - Lido, Italy
Period: July 6-15, 2015
Application deadline: May 15, 2015

The Venice Academy of Human Rights will take place from 6-15 July 2015. The theme of this year’s academy is ‘(Dis)Integration through Human Rights: Citizens, Courts, Communities’.

The Venice Academy of Human Rights is an international programme of excellence for human rights education, research and debate. It forms part of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC).
The Academy offers interdisciplinary thematic programmes open to academics, practitioners, doctoral and master students with an advanced knowledge of human rights. Participants attend morning lectures, participate in discussion sessions and workshops and can exchange views, ideas and arguments with leading international scholars and experts. This includes the opportunity for a number of participants to present and discuss their own “work in progress” such as drafts of articles, chapters of books or doctoral theses and receive comments from faculty members and peers.
At the end of the programme, participants receive a Certificate of Attendance issued by the Venice Academy of Human Rights.

Scientific Responsible
Prof. Florence Benoît-Rohmer, EIUC Secretary General
Programme Responsible
Knut Traisbach, Programme Responsible Venice Academy of Human Rights

Distinguished Opening Lecture
Albie Sachs
Former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

General Course
Will Kymlicka
Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen’s University Faculty
Armin v. Bogdandy
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Andreas Føllesdal
Professor of Political Philosophy at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and Director of the Norwegian Centre of Excellence PluriCourts for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order, University of Oslo
Marc Weller
Professor of International Law and International Constitutional Studies and Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
Marlene Wind
EURECO Professor and Director of the Centre for European Politics, University of Copenhagen

Academics, practitioners, PhD/JSD and master students

You can view the detailed programme here. Type of courses: Lectures, seminars, workshops and discussion sessions
Number of hours: up to 35 hours of courses
Fees: 500 EUR (early bird registration until 15 March), 600 EUR (16 March - 3 May 2015)

Online applications are accepted until 15 May 2015. 

Venice Academy of Human Rights
e-mail: veniceacademy@eiuc.org