Breakfast Briefing with Sergii Masol

Russia, People under its Jurisdiction and the European Court of Human Rights: The End and New Beginnings

Abstract

On 16 September 2022, Russia ceased to be a High Contracting Party to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (also known as the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR). The European human rights protection thus entered a new era of the perpetual antagonism between the West and the East.

Relying on primary and secondary sources in different languages (including Russian), Sergii Masol will examine the legal and political implications of these developments from three perspectives. What does the European Court of Human Rights lose and win without Russia? What does Russia lose and win without this court? What do people under the jurisdiction of Russia lose and win without the right to complain against this state in Strasbourg?

About the Speaker

Sergii Masol is a Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cologne. Sergii obtained his doctorate in law from the European University Institute in Florence, where he also worked as a research assistant. Previously, Sergii was a visiting researcher at the University of Copenhagen and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. 

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