Başak Çalı, Lorna McGregor and Ivana Radačić

About/Bio

Dr. Başak Çalı, Lorna McGregor and Ivana Radačić are the Founding Co-Chairs of the European Society of International Law's Interest Group on International Human Rights Law. Başak is Associate Professor of International Law at Koç University, Turkey. Lorna is a Reader in Law and Director of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex School of Law. Her work has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the Journal of International Criminal Justice and the International Journal of Transitional Justice. Her previous work on state immunity has been cited by the UK House of Lords and the International Court of Justice. Lorna is a Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law’s Interest Group on Transitional Justice and Co-Chair of the European Society of International Law's Interest Group on Human Rights. Ivana is a senior research associate at Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences in Zagreb and a visiting lecturer at the University of Zagreb, the University of Osijek, the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice). She has published widely in the area of feminism and human rights, in particular on the women's rights jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. She cooperates with a number of NGOs on human rights education and strategic litigation before the European Court of Human Rights. She is a co-Chair of the European Society of International Law's Interest Group on International Human Rights Law.

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ESIL-IHRL Online Symposium: Is There General International Human Rights Law?

In June 2014, we launched the ESIL-IHRL interest group online symposia.  In our first blog post we identified three overarching challenges for researchers of international human rights law. These are resistance to containment as a sub-branch; internal-fragmentation; and interdisciplinary expansion.  We start our symposia with a basic question about international human rights law…

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ESIL Interest Group on Human Rights Launches Online Symposia on International Human Rights Law

 Dr. Başak Çalı (pictured above left) is Associate Professor of International Law at Koç University, Turkey. Lorna McGregor (pictured right) is a Reader in Law and Director of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex School of Law. Ivana Radačić (pictured below left) is a senior research associate at Ivo…

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