Speakers / Panelists 12 / 13 April 2021 Inter-State cases under the European Convention on Human Rights Experiences and current challenges Christine Lambrecht Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection Christine Lambrecht has held the office of German Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection since June 2019. She completed her law degree in 1995 and has been a Member of the German Bundestag since 1998. Among other positions, she has served as Member of the Bundestag’s Council of Elders and as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance. Marija Pejčinović Burić Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejčinović Burić is the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the preeminent Pan-European international organisation in the field of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Prior to being elected to her current position, Ms Pejčinović Burić was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, having served previously, on two occasions, as State Secretary for EU Affairs. During her time as a Deputy in the Croatian Parliament, she chaired the delegation of the Croatia-EU Joint Parliamentary Com- mittee, headed the delegation of the Croatian Parliament to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and served on a range of foreign and European-themed committees, including in the position of Substitute Member of the Croatian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Earlier in her career, Ms Pejčinović Burić held a number of senior positions relating to the Croatia’s EU accession process. She went on to be a Negotiator on several chapters in the context of Croatia’s EU accession negotiations. She has written, lectured and consulted widely on European affairs, has served as a president and board member for a number of organisations and is a former Secretary General of the Europe House, Zagreb. Ms Pejčinović Burić holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb, and a Master in European Studies from the College of Europe. 1 Robert Spano President of the European Court of Human Rights Judge Robert Spano was elected to the European Court of Human Rights in 2013 with respect to Iceland and is currently the President of the Court. Before taking up his judicial office he served as Parliamentary Ombudsman of Iceland from 2009–2010 and again in 2013. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Iceland, from 2010–2013, and was appointed professor of law in 2006. He was chairman of the Standing Committee of Experts in Criminal Law in the Icelandic Ministry of Justice from 2003–2009 and from 2011–2013. He was also the Icelandic delegate to the European Committee on Crime Problems and an Independent Expert to the Lanzarote Committee of the Council of Europe. Judge Spano is a graduate of the University of Iceland and of the University of Oxford. Nicola Wenzel German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection Nicola Wenzel is Head of the Human Rights Office at the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection and Government Agent before the ECtHR. Her specialisation in international human rights law and the ECHR in particular go back to her work as research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg. From her previous work as head of the Ministry’s Alternative Dispute Resolution unit she brings an ADR perspective on human rights litigation. She publishes regularly on the Convention system and its implemen- tation in Germany. Hans-Jörg Behrens German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection Dr. Hans-Jörg Behrens studied law in Marburg, Göttingen and London (King’s College), joining the Federal Ministry of Justice in 1991. He was a member of the German team for the creation of the International Criminal Court and a member of the Drafting Committee at the 1998 Rome Conference. From 2001 to 2005 he was Head of the Cabinet and Parliament Liaison Office in the Ministry. Since 2005 he has been Co-Agent and Agent before the ECHR and Head of the Ministry’s Human Rights Office. In 2016/17 he was Vice-Chair and in 2018/19 Chair of the Steering Com- mittee on Human Rights (CDDH); currently he chairs the Committee on the System of the European Convention on Human Rights (DH-SYSC). 2 Andreas Zimmermann University of Potsdam Professor Dr. Andreas Zimmermann: Professor of Constitutional and International Law, University of Potsdam and Director of the Potsdam Centre of Human Rights; Dr. jur. (Heidelberg), LL.M. (Harvard); counsel in various cases before the ICJ, arbitral tribunals and the German Constitutional Court; judge ad hoc European Court of Human Rights (until 2018); member advisory boards on UN issues (until 2019) and on public international law German Ministry of Foreign Affairs; member of the advisory committee on international humanitarian law of the German Red Cross; member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (2018–2020). Geir Ulfstein University of Oslo Geir Ulfstein is Professor of International Law at the University of Oslo and Co-Director of PluriCourts – Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order. He has published in different areas of international law, including the law of the sea, international environmental law, international human rights and international institutional law. Ulfstein is Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law, Luxembourg and has been Co-chair of the International Law Association’s Study Group on the ‘Content and Evo- lution of the Rules of Interpretation’ (2015–2020). He has been member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law (2010–2016). Ulfstein is President of the Norwegian Branch of the International Law Association (ILA). Isabella Risini Ruhr-Universität Bochum Dr. Isabella Risini, LL.M. (Chicago-Kent College of Law) is a senior research associate at Ruhr-University Bochum. She studied law at the University of Augsburg, the Chicago-Kent College of Law (LL.M. in International and Comparative Law), and the Hague Academy of International Law. During her qualification period for the German bar in the Higher Regional Court District of Munich, she completed a stage at the headquarters of the German Foreign Office in Berlin. Subsequently, she also had the opportunity of a traineeship at the European Court of Human Rights. Her PhD thesis entitled The Inter-State Application under the European Convention on Human Rights – Between Collective Enforcement of Human Rights and Inter- national Dispute Settlement was published by Brill in 2018. 3 Başak Çalı Hertie School Başak Çalı is Professor of International Law at the Hertie School and Co-Director of the School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights. She is an expert in international law and institutions, international human rights law and policy. She has authored publications on theories of international law, the relationship between international law and domestic law, standards of review in international law, interpretation of human rights law, legitimacy of human rights courts, and implementation of human rights judgments. Çalı is the Chair of European Implementation Network and a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex. She has acted as a Council of Europe expert on the European Convention on Human Rights since 2002. She has extensive experience in training members of the judiciary and lawyers across Europe in the field of human rights law. She received her PhD in International Law from the University of Essex in 2003. Ed Bates University of Leicester Ed Bates is a co-author of Harris, O’Boyle and Warbrick, The Law of the European Convention on Human Rights (Fourth edition, Oxford University Press, 2018 – fifth edition, forthcoming 2023) and the author of E Bates, The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is currently writing a monograph entitled, ‘The European Court of Human Rights’ transformative era (the 2010s): decline, further evolution, realistic future?’ to be published by Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2023). His recent work includes, ‘Prin- cipled resistance to the European Court of Human Rights in the UK?’, in M Breuer, ‘Principled Resistance to the ECHR – a new paradigm?’ (Springer 2019); ‘Activism and self-restraint: the margin of appreciation’s Strasbourg career… its ‘coming of age’?’, in Symposium in Honour of Judge Paul Mahoney 36 (2016) No. 7-12 Human Rights Law Journal 261; ‘Democratic override (or rejection) and the authority of the Strasbourg Court: the UK Parliament and prisoner voting’, in Saul, M. & Follesdal, A. & Ulfstein, G.. The International Human Rights Judiciary and National Parliaments: Europe and Beyond (Cambridge University Press 2017); and ‘Analysing the Prisoner Voting Saga and the British Challenge to Strasbourg’ (2014) 14 Human Rights Law Review 503. Ed runs the blog UKStrasbourgspotlight (https://ukstrasbourgspotlight.wordpress.com/). 4 Frans Viljoen University of Pretoria (Africa) BLC degree (a three-year Bachelor’s degree majoring with Law and Political Science) (University of Pretoria, South Africa); LLB degree (two-year law degree giving access to legal practice) (University of Pretoria, South Africa); LLM degree (specialising on human rights) (University of Cambridge); MA (Literature) (University of Pretoria, South Africa); LLD (doctoral degree, focusing on supranational human rights protection in Africa) (University of Pretoria, South Africa). He is the editor-in-chief of three mostly English language academic journals, the African Human Rights Law Journal, the African Human Rights Yearbook and the Global Campus Human Rights Journal. The Centre for Human Rights, of which he has been the Director for the last eleven years, has since 1995 enjoyed observer status with the African Commission. He has personally attended around 30 sessions of the African Commission.