Abstract
This webinar lecture will present different models of relying on empirical facts in the assessment of human rights compliance. The speaker will relate to his three decades of experiences from 1) UN Human Rights Committee examination of periodic reports by states, 2) the UN project to develop human rights indictors, 3) the EU-funded SURVEILLE project for the assessment of the utility, ethics and law of surveillance technology through multidisciplinary expert panels, 4) assessing countries’ strategies against COVID-19 for their conformity of all human rights of all members of society, and 5) assessing emerging AI applications through multidisciplinary expert panels.
Recording of the lecture
Presentation of the speaker
Bio
Professor Martin Scheinin is part-time professor of human rights law at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and at Lund University (Sweden). He has served as member of the UN Human Rights Committee, as UN Special Rapporteur and as member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. Before his international career he was professor of constitutional law at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and thereafter professor of constitutional and international law at Åbo Akademi University (Finland).
Moderator of the event will kindly be Prof. Veronika Bílková