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Anne van Aaken is Professor for Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law at the University of St. Gallen (and, since autumn 2018, Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor at the University of Hamburg). Iulia Motoc is Judge at the European Court of Human Rights and Professor of International Law at the University of Bucharest. Together they edited the 2018 volume The European Convention on Human Rights and General International Law, bringing judges of the ECtHR and the ICJ into dialogue with leading academics on fragmentation and convergence in international law.
Research focus:
- Interaction between the European Convention on Human Rights and general international law
- Sources, interpretation, jurisdiction, state responsibility and immunity
- Law-and-economics approaches to public international law (van Aaken)
- Judicial protection of human rights at regional and universal levels (Motoc)
The edited book analyses how the Strasbourg Court’s doctrines influence—and are influenced by—wider international law, offering concrete proposals for greater coherence while warning against fragmentation. Individual chapters map evolutive interpretation, extraterritorial jurisdiction, concurrent responsibilities, punitive damages and immunities.
Scientific recognition:
- Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professorship, Germany’s most highly-endowed international research award (van Aaken)
- Favourable scholarly review in European Convention on Human Rights Law Review
Institutional service:
- Former Vice-President, European Society of International Law (van Aaken)
- President of the Programmatic Steering Board, Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (van Aaken)
- UN Special Rapporteur on the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Member and Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Committee (Motoc)
- Judge, Constitutional Court of Romania (2010-2014) (Motoc)
