2024 (2)

 

[1] ‘Equal Access to Justice for Women: Is Legal Technology the Answer?’, paper presentation, Annual Meeting of Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Panel on ‘Gender and Legal Profession’, 3-6 September 2024.

 

[2] Discussant (together with Ulrike Schultz, Avrom Sherr, and Hilary Sommerlad) for Robert L. Nelson’s book ‘The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession’, Author Meets Readers Session, Meeting of Research Committee of Sociology of Law Working Group of ‘Comparative Studies of Legal Professions’, 24-25 June 2024.

 

2023 (4)

 

[1] Discussant, inaugural workshop and public launch of Legal Professions Research Group (LPRG) ‘Changing Law, Changing Lawyers’, Leeds University, School of Law, UK, on 11 December 2023.

 

[2] ‘Equal Access to Justice for Women: Is Legal Technology the Answer? Observations and Global Trends from Asia and Europe’, paper presentation, International Congress ‘Combating Gender-based violence’, University of Lille, France, on 6 July 2023.

 

[3] ‘Ensuring Equal Access to Justice for All: Is Legal Technology the Answer?’, paper presentation, 2023 International Legal Aid Group (ILAG) Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, on 23 June 2023.

 

[4] ‘Promoting Equal Access to Justice and Strengthening the Respect of Fundamental Rights’,  invited talk, Tashkent Law Spring Conference, session ‘Constitutional reform - on the way to strengthening fundamental rights’, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on 18 May 2023.

 

2022 (6)

 

[1] ‘Access to Justice for All: Is Legal Technology the Answer?  Observations and Global Trends from Asia and Europe’, paper presentation, Research Seminars in Sociology of Law, Lund University, Sweden, on 16 November 2022.

 

[2] ‘The Role of Legal Technology to Strengthen the Access to Justice for Disadvantaged Groups’, invited talk, International Conference on Access to Justice: Strengthening Access to Justice for Disadvantaged Groups, Ankara, Turkey, on 23 October 2022.

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[3] Chair and Discussant, participant of roundtable chaired by Richard Abel 'Future Directions for Comparative Research on Legal Professions’, and chair and discussant for panel 'Judges and Judgments',  2022 Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association , Lisbon, Portugal, on 13 and 16 July 2022.

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[4] ‘Human Rights Lawyering in Europe’, paper presentation, Annual Meeting of Working Group for the Comparative Study of the Legal Professions, Sub-group on Legal Ethics, Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL), Coimbra, Portugal, on 12 July2022.

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[5] Chair and Presenter, chair for panel 'Courts and Fundamental Rights: Evolutions' and paper presentation on 'Advocates for Silenced Voices: How Human Rights Lawyers in Europe Defend the Rule of Law', 2022 Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), University of Wroclaw, Poland, on 5 July 2022.

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[6] 'Judicial Independence in Central Asia', paper presentation, 9th Asian Constitutional Law Forum, Panel ‘Human Rights in Asia’, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, on 14 May 2022.

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2021 (9)

 

[1] 'Global Trends and Principles of Legal Aid', presentation, Thematic workshop 'Advancing Legal Aid under the Justice Sector Strategic Plan (2021-25)' of Legal and Institutional Oversight Sub Sector Working Group of European Union, UNDP and Ministry of Justice of Lao PDR, Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR, on 9 December 2021.​

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[2] ‘The Rule of Law in Europe: Quo Vadis?’, paper presentation, ‘Six Decades of the Past, Six Decades for the Future: An International Conference Celebrating 60 Years of Teaching and Researching International Relations in Slovenia’, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, virtual conference, on 8 October 2021.

 

[3] ‘Advocates for Silenced Voices: How Human Rights Lawyers Defend the Rule of Law in Europe’, paper presentation, Research colloquium organised by the Paul Scholten Centre and the Amsterdam Centre on Legal Professions and Access to Justice, on 5 October 2021.

 

[4] ‘The Rule of Law in Europe: Quo Vadis? Europe’s Judges and their Role in Protecting Civic Space’, paper presentation, panel ‘The State of Democracy’, 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference of Political Research SCOPE: Science of Politics, University of Bucharest, Romania, virtual conference, on 22 September 2021.

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[5] ‘A Milestone: Europe´s First Guidelines on Legal Aid’, paper presentation, Annual Meeting of Research Committee of Sociology of Law ‘In Times of Pandemics and Populism: Increasing Inequalities?’, virtual conference, on 21 September 2021.             

 

[6]  ‘Europe‘s Sharp Decline in Judicial Independence: Is There a Way Out?’, paper presentation, 2021 Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), virtual conference, 8 July 2021.

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[7] ‘Europe’s First Guidelines on Civil Legal Aid: An Overview’, paper presentation, Annual Meeting of Working Group for the Comparative Study of the Legal Professions, Research Committee on Sociology of Law, virtual conference, on 11 June 2021.

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[8] ‘Lawyers in the 21st Century: Advocates of Silenced Voices’, paper presentation, panel ‘Lawyers and state transformations’, 2021 Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association, Chicago, USA, on 27 May 2021.

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[9] ‘Lawyers in the 21st Century: Advocates of Silenced Voices’, paper presentation, track ‘Lawyers and Legal Professions’, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, on 1 April 2021.

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2020 (2)

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[1]‘ Advocates of Silenced Voices: The Role of International Organisations to Safeguard Judicial Independence’, paper presentation, 26th World Congress of Political Science, Lisbon, Portugal, 25 July 2020.

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[2] ‘Advocates of Silenced Voices: The Role of International Organisations to Strengthen Europe's Civil Society’, paper presentation, 2020 Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association, Denver, USA, 28-31 May 2020 (presenter, discussant and chair).

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2019 (7)

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[1] ‘Judicial Independence and Democracy´, invited talk, Utrecht University, Netherlands, on 14 November 2019.

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[2] ‘Judicial Independence and Article 46 ECHR (Binding Force and Execution of Judgments)’, invited talk, summer school ‘Human Rights in Theory and Practice: Human Rights Protection under the ECHR’, University of Leipzig, Germany, on 6 September 2019.

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[3] ‘Who Judges the Judges? Rethinking the Role of Intergovernmental organisations in dealing with Judicial Accountability ‘, invited talk, workshop ‘European Responses to the Decay of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Protections in Turkey: exceptional or symptomatic?’, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, on 30 August

2019.

 

[4] ‘Refugees/Asylum Seekers/Migrants: Considerations in their Relationship between Asia and Europe/Global North’, roundtable discussion, 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Leiden, Netherlands, on 16 July 2019.

 

[5] ‘Who Judges the Judges?’, paper presentation, panel ‘Courts, Bureaucracy and Politics in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Turkey’, Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association, Washington, D.C., USA, on 2 June 2019.

 

[6] ‘Safeguarding Judicial Independence in Europe: The Role of International Organisations’, webinar organised by ‘RECONNECT: Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and Rule of Law’, KU Leuven, Belgium, on 22 May 2019.

 

[7] ‘The Use of Cultural Expertise in Germany’, invited talk, workshop ‘Indicators and Factors of Impact of Cultural Expertise’, Christ Church college, Oxford, 27-28 March 2019.

 

2018 (7)

 

[1] ‘Judicial Accountability in the EU’, invited talk, workshop ‘Contemporary Challenges to Fundamental Rights Law in the EU’, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, on 9 November 2018.

 

[2] ‘Strengthening the Capacity of Bar Associations and Lawyers on European Human Rights Standards in Turkey: Needs in Institutional Capacities of the Human Rights Centres’, roundtable discussion, workshop ‘Strengthening the Capacity of Bar Associations and Lawyers on European Human Rights Standards’, Council of Europe, Ankara, Turkey, on 14 September 2018.

 

[3] ‘For a Stronger Rule of Law in Europe: Holding Russia’s Judges and Prosecutors to Account’, paper presentation, Third Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, Tartu, Estonia, on 12 June 2018.

 

[4] ‘Who Holds Europe’s Judges and Public Prosecutors to Account? How the International Community Fails to Effectively Address Judicial Harassment’, paper presentation, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Bristol, UK, on 28 March 2018.

 

[5] ‘Lawyers and Corporate Social Responsibility: On the Legal Profession’s Hesitation with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights’, paper presentation, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2018, University of Bristol, UK, on 27 March 2018.       

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[6] ‘Judicial Independence in Non-Consolidated Democracies’, invited talk, study programme ‘Democracy and its Discontents in the Post-Cold War World’, Leiden University, The Hague, Netherlands, on 22 March 2018.

 

[7] ‘Introduction: Business and Human Rights’, invited talk, study programme ‘Introduction to Human Rights: Theory, History and Practice’, Leiden University, The Hague, Netherlands, on 14 March 2018.

 

2017 (3)

 

[1] ‘The Law Clinic Movement in Europe’, invited talk, workshop on ‘Legal Advice by Students: Useful, Necessary or Unwelcome?’, Soldan Institute for Law Practice Management, Cologne, Germany, on 30 June 2017.

 

[2] ‘Measuring Judicial Independence: How Global Indicators Fail to Capture the Reality in Europe and Latin America’, paper presentation,  Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association 2017, Mexico City, Mexico, on 23 June 2017.

 

[3] ‘New Politics of Human Rights? Global Indicators of Judicial Independence and their Failure to Capture the Truth in European and Latin American judiciaries’, paper presentation, SCOPE 2017, 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference of Political Research, University of Bucharest, Romania, on 27 May 2017.

 

2016 (5)

 

[1] ‘Judicial Authorities and their Impact on Human Rights Defenders’, invited talk, OSCE Human Dimension Seminar ‘Promoting Effective and Integral Justice Systems: How to Ensure the Independence and Quality of the Judiciary’, side event ‘Lack of Independence of the Judiciary and Prosecution of Human Rights Defenders in the Eastern Part of the OSCE Area’, organized by Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warsaw, Poland, on 22 November 2016.

 

[2] ‘Lawyering and Human Rights Due Diligence: a Success Story for the Implementation of the UNGPs in Near Future?’, poster presentation, International Conference on Business and Human Rights, co-organized by University of Seville, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and The BHRight Initiative, Seville, Spain, on 21 October 2016.

 

[3] ‘Business & Human Rights and the Legal Profession: Quo Vadis?’, paper presentation, Second Business and Human Rights Scholars Conference, co-organized by University of Washington School of Law, NYU Stern Centre for Business and Human Rights, Rutgers Business School, the Rutgers Centre for Corporate Law and Governance, and Business and Human Rights Journal, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, on 17 September 2016.

 

[4] ‘Lawyers and Human Rights Due Diligence: a Promising Bond for the Promotion of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)?’, paper presentation,American Society of International Law (ASIL), Business and Human Rights Roundtable of the Human Rights Interest Group of ASIL ‘International Human Rights Law and Business: Evaluating the Impact of UNGPs’, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA, on 29 March 2016.

 

[5] ‘Human Rights Instruments: the Netherlands, Europe and the Caribbean, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela’, invited talk, annual course program for diplomats from Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by Clingendael Netherlands Institute for International Relations, The Hague, Netherlands, on 29 February 2016.

                   

2015 (5)

 

[1] ‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? Domestic Courts in Latin America under Scrutiny’, paper presentatio, Inter-American Human Rights Network, conference ‘The Inter-American Human Rights System: the Law and Politics of Institutional Change’, Institute of the Americas, University College London (UCL), London, UK, on 10 October 2015.

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[2] ‘Transitional Justice and Judicial Independence in Latin America’, chair and paper presentation at workshop on ‘Disillusions and Accomplishments: How Transitional Justice Changes Societies’, organized by ORA-NWO project of University of East London, UK, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, ‘The Impact of Transitional Justice Measures on Democratic Institution-building’, Utrecht University, Netherlands, on 30 July 2015.

 

[3] ‘International Human Rights Institutions: Regional Level’, invited talk, summer School on ‘International Human Rights Law: an Introduction’, Utrecht University, Netherlands, on 14 July 2015.    

 

[4] ‘Human Rights Due Diligence and the Legal Profession: the Power of Lawyers to Promote Corporate Social Responsibility’, paper presentation, ‘Graduate Conference on Human Rights: Challenges to Human Rights Theory and Practice’, organized by the Glasgow Human Rights Network, University of Glasgow, UK, on 21 May 2015.            

 

[5] ‘The Promotion of Corporate Responsibility by Lawyers: the (Im-)Possible Mission to Implement Legal Ethics on Business and Human Rights within Legal Professions?’, paper presentation, conference ‘Corporate (Ir-)Responsibility and its Consequences in a Globalized World’, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, on 21 February 2015.

 

2014 (4)

 

[1] ‘The Promotion of Social Justice within the Legal Profession’, paper presentation, conference on ‘Social Justice 2014: the Institutions that Make Social Justice’, panel ‘Legal Professions’, London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK, on 2 August 2014.    

            

[2] ‘The Promotion of Access to Justice through Students of Social Work’, paper presentation, University of Applied Science Ludwigsburg, Germany, on 17 July 2014.

 

[3] ‘Fighting for Social Justice in Europe: a Case Study of Human Rights Lawyering’, paper presentation, 8th Annual Graduate Conference of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR) ‘Justice and Dignity under Challenge’, session ‘ECHR: Law & Practice’, University College Cork, Ireland, on 5 June 2014.                                

 

[4] ‘Human Rights Lawyering in England and Wales and Germany’, invited talk, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), School of Advanced Studies, London, UK, on 20 January 2014.

 

2013 (2)

 

[1] ‘Human Rights Lawyering in Europe: a Comparative Analysis of the Crucial Role of Legal Professionals in Guaranteeing the Right of Access to Justice’, paper presentation at European Consortium for Political Research, General Conference 2013, panel ‘Justice in International Organizations’, Bordeaux, France, on 5 September 2013.

 

[2] ‘Human Rights Lawyering and the Introduction of the Provision of Pro Bono Legal Services in Germany’, invited talk, European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights, Berlin, Germany, on 20 February 2013.

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2012 (3)

 

[1]  ‘Human Rights Lawyering in Europe: a Comparative Analysis of the Crucial Role of Legal Professionals in Guaranteeing Equal Access to Justice’, paper presentation at conference ‘Modern Activism: Rights, Conflict and Crisis’, co-organized by King’s College London, University of Liverpool and John Moores University of Liverpool, in Liverpool, UK, on 27 June 2012.

 

[2] 'Anwaltliches Berufsrecht und Human Rights Lawyering in Deutschland’, invited talk, Institute for the Law of the Legal Profession, University of Cologne, Germany, on 26 June 2012.

                

[3] ‘Human Rights Lawyering and Access to Justice in Europe: the Role of Legal Professionals in Promoting the UN Declaration of Human Rights Defenders’, paper presentation, United Nations Research Congress ‘Human Beings and Individuals within the United Nations’, Friedrich Schiller-University in Jena, Germany on 8 April 2012.