European Yearbook on Human Rights 2024

Philip Czech holds a Dr. iur. and a Dr. phil. degree. Since 2002 he is a senior researcher at the Austrian Institute for Human Rights. He is editor of the Newsletter Menschenrechte, a periodical reporting in German on the current case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. His fields of interest are the case-law of the ECtHR and its transposition in Austria, asylum and migration law, the freedom of reproductive choice and family law as well as human rights in the penitentiary system.



Lisa Heschl is senior scientist at the European Training and Research Centre on Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Graz (Uni-ETC). She received her Ph.D. in law from the University of Graz and holds a European Master Degree in Human Rights and Democratization (E.MA). Her research focuses on the European migration and asylum policy and legislation, the extraterritorial application of international and European refugee and human rights law and its relation to European border policies.



Karin Lukas is Professor at the Department of Legal Studies, Central European University (CEU). She is an expert on the interactions between different human rights systems and institutions with a focus on the wider Europe as well as on the translation of human rights standards into activities of business, trade, development cooperation and climate change. She has served as a consultant at various national and international organisations, such as the UN Development Programme, MIGA (World Bank Group) the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and companies in various sectors. In 2011 she was appointed as a member to the European Committee of Social Rights of the Council of Europe (until 2022).



Manfred Nowak is Professor of Human Rights and Scientific Director of the Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights at the University of Vienna and Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice. He has carried out various expert functions for inter-governmental organisations including the UN (e.g. UN Independent Expert leading the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, UN expert on enforced disappearances, and UN Special Rapporteur on Torture) and the EU (e.g. Vice-Chair of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency in Vienna). He was director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights at the Utrecht University, founder and co-director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights at the University of Vienna, and held visiting chairs at the University of Lund, the Graduate Institute in Geneva and at Stanford University.



Gerd Oberleitner is UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security at the Faculty of Law, University of Graz and Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy at the university. He is a lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Visiting Professor at the European Inter-University Centre Venice, the Universite du Quebec a Montreal, the Universities of Ljubljana, Bochum and Rutgers University. He teaches in the Global Campus of Human Right.