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Event Catalogue
The Event Catalogue page provides recording & materials from the events organized by the WPs of the HRJust project. You can access our thematic catalogue following the link below
Academic publications
WP6 Climate publications
Alessi, N.P. (2025). “Verein Klimaseniorinnen and others v. Switzerland between human rights protection and human rights justification”, Freedom, Security & Justice: European Legal Studies 1, 210-236, https://www.fsjeurostudies.eu/2025,-n.-1.html
Antoniazzi, C. T. (2024). “Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in the Area of Climate Change: Why the European Union Should Take Them Seriously”, European Papers 9(2): 479-512. DOI: 10.15166/2499-8249/768, European papers
Fornalé, E. (2024). “Parità di genere e cambiamenti climatici in tempi di ´polycrisis´”, in Di Stasi, A. (ed.). Dalla non discriminazione alle pari opportunità: Un itinerario di confronto, ricerca e sperimentazione di buone prassi a UNISA… e oltre (Editoriale La Scientifica), https://zenodo.org/records/10716027
Naz Nemec, E. (2024). “Marmara Gölü ve Ötesi: Bir iklim davası argümanı olarak gerilememe İlkesi (The Lake Marmara and Beyond: Principle of Non-regression as An Argument in Climate Litigation)”, in Kutluhan Bozkurt (ed.), Küresel Isınma ve İklim Koruma Hukuku (Global Warming and Climate Protection Law) (Legal Publishing, Istanbul), 69-87, Seçkin Yayıncılık
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Reading lists
WP6 Climate reading list
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Working paper series
Gender & intersectionality working paper series
Alessi, N. P. (2024). Inclusive Democracy: Reflecting on Gender and Intersectionality Issues. Literature Review and Practical Development. HRJUst Gender & Intersectionality Working Paper. DOI: 10.48620/77232, https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/191318
WP3 Theory working paper series
Ganesh, A. ‘Waves of Freedom’: Kant and the Right to Rescue on the High Seas. Draft of 01.08.2024 Amended version forthcoming in Vol. 72 Buffalo Law Review (2024)
WP6 Climate working paper series
Cristani, F. and Fornalé, E. (2025). National Climate Litigation Case Reviews: Human Rights Justifications in Action. HRJust WP6 Climate Working Paper Series.
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Němec, E. N., Lhotský, J., Cristani, F., & Fornalé, E. (2024). WP6 Preliminary Working Paper on the National Climate Litigation Case Reviews: State Accountability for Its Use of Human Rights Justifications. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10997255
Němec, E. N., Lhotský, J., Cristani, F., Fornalé, E., & Heepen, R. (2024). Preliminary WP6 Working Paper on the Methodology for Conducting Interviews. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10996864
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Policy Paper Series
Fornalé, E, Cristani, F., Heepen, R. ´Gender Parity in the Making: Promoting Equal and Inclusive Representation of Women in Decision-Making Systems´ IIR Policy Paper (2024), https://www.iir.cz/en/gender-parity-in-the-making-promoting-equal-and-inclusive-representation-of-women-in-decision-making-systems
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Web interview series
Talking with WP3: how to theorise human rights justifications? Listen from Ester, Ayelet, Enzo, Claudio, Nikola, Aravind and Johanna what they are working on!
Web-interviews in video blog format
To know more about these topics, do not miss the Conference on Human Rights Justifications and the EU taking place on 18-19 October 2024 at the University of Gothenburg (co-organized by the Swedish Centre for European Legal Studies and HRJust WP3). More information and registration link here https://hrjust.wordpress.com/home/events-page/
Human Rights Justifications and Values in the EU
Ester Herlin-Karnell, Professor in EU law, Department of Law @ University of Gothenburg
Human rights and the states: defending critical statism in human rights theory
Ayelet Banai, Lecturer in Government and Political Theory, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Political Sciences @ University of Haifa
e-mail: abanai@poli.haifa.ac.il
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Human Rights as Ideology?
Enzo Rossi, Associate professor in political theory, Department of Political Science @ University of Amsterdam
e-mail: E.Rossi@uva.nl
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Before the Law. On the paradox of human (legal) rights
Claudio Corradetti, Associate professor in political philosophy and international relations, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Litterature and Philosophy @ University of Rome Tor Vergata
Experts as a normative power in global governance
Nikola Schmidt, Senior researcher and Head of the Centre for Governance of Emerging Technologies @ Institute of International Relations Prague
e-mail: schmidt@iir.cz
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Justifications and Human Rights in the EU
Aravind Ganesh, Lecturer at the School of Law @ University of Sussex
e-mail: A.Ganesh@sussex.ac.uk
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’Green’ human rights justifications
Johanna Gipperth, Ph.D. Candidate in international law @ University of Gothenburg
e-mail: johanna.gipperth@gu.se
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Empirical webinar series
The Human rights justification: empirical webinar series is organized by the Institute of International Relations in Prague within the framework of the activities of HRJust WP7 (Empirical – cross-cutting) activities. Please find below all the webinars and videos

Human rights justification: empirical webinar series: Programme
The Human rights justification: empirical webinar series is organized by the Institute of International Relations in Prague within the framework of the activities of HRJust WP7 (Empirical – cross-cutting) activities