Kalliopi Koufa Foundation

23/04/2023

The Kalliopi Koufa Foundation is proud to announce that Professor Samia Bano will lecture on " Gender, Religion and Human Rights" during the 2023 Thessaloniki Summer Course.

Professor Bano teaches Family Law, Research Methods in Law and Law, Multiculturalism and Rights on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of study at SOAS, School of Law. Before joining SOAS, she taught at the University of Reading, School of Law where she was appointed Deputy Director of Research.

Her research interests include the practice of Muslim family law in the UK and Europe, multiculturalism, citizenship, Islamic jurisprudence and human rights and issues concerning the rights of Muslim women and gender equality. Her research examines the nature of Muslim family law and women’s rights within pluralised legal systems, and the tensions that exist within this relationship, in terms of rights, identity, and legal citizenship. Professor Bano’s work points to the complex realities of Muslim identity and engagement with Sharia law and establishes the necessity of ensuring that assertions about the practice and acceptance of Sharia law are rooted in the lived realities of those who participate in it.

Professor Bano has published widely in this field and is a recognised expert within her field of expertise. She has also worked as a researcher on a number of social and policy projects and acts as an advisor for a number of working groups.

She is an editorial board member for the feminist journal Feminist Legal Studies and the journal Mediation, Theory and Practice. Professor Bano is currently completing her new book monograph on Cultural Expertise and English Family Law and her new research project is investigating the rise of Muslim legal services and the practice of Muslim family practices in the UK.

For more information, please see:
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/samia-bano

We look forward to welcoming Professor Samia Bano in Thessaloniki!

18/04/2023

We are very excited to announce that Professor Andreas R. Ziegler will deliver a lecture on “Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and International Human Rights Law” at the 2023 Thessaloniki Summer Course.

Professor Andreas R. Ziegler is a Professor of International Law at the University of Lausanne. He regularly advises governments, international organizations, NGOs and private clients and represents them before various domestic and international courts and arbitral tribunals. He is also on the permanent roster of panellists for the World Trade Organization (WTO) and International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

He currently chairs the Swiss Section of the International Law Association (Section suisse de l’International Law Association (ILA)) and is a member of the board of several academic associations such as the Swiss Society of International Law, German Society of International Law, International Law Association (Executive Council), European Law Faculties Association.

His main research areas are international (economic) law (with a special emphasis on Switzerland) and international legal developments relating to s*xual orientation, gender identity and expression as well as s*x characteristics (SOGIESC).

Prior to joining the University of Lausanne, Professor Ziegler worked for the Swiss Government, European Commission, Secretariat of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and a law firm in Zurich on trade and investment issues. In these roles he negotiated several multilateral and bilateral agreements and was also a delegate to the WTO, UNCTAD, OECD, Energy Charter and other international organisations.

He has published widely on European law, public international law, international courts and tribunals, as well as trade and investment.

For more information please see
http://andreasrziegler.com/

We look forward to welcoming Professor Andreas R. Ziegler in Thessaloniki!

13/04/2023

It is a great honour for Koufa Foundation to welcome Judge Hilary Charlesworth on Wednesday 28 June 2023 for a keynote speech.

Judge Hilary Charlesworth was elected as a Judge of the International Court of Justice on 5 November 2021. Prior to her election, she was Harrison Moore Professor of Law and a Melbourne Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School.
Judge Hilary Charlesworth was also a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University. She has been a visiting professor at various institutions including Harvard Law School, New York University Global Law School, UCLA, Paris I and the London School of Economics.

Judge Hilary Charlesworth has been a member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law and the American Society of International Law as well as President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. She is a member of the Institut de Droit International and the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law.

She served as Judge ad hoc in the International Court of Justice in the Whaling in the Antarctic case (Australia v Japan) (2011-2014) and in the Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 case (Guyana v Venezuela) (2019-2021).

Among other publications, Judge Hilary Charlesworth is the author of Democracy in International Law, The Hague Academy of International Law 2015 (371 Recueil des Cours, pp. 53-152); Sexe, Genre et Droit International, Paris: A. Pedone 2013; "Treaties on Women" in Oxford Handbook of United Nations Treaties 2019; "International Law and International Justice" in Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory 2018.

For more information see
https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/members-of-the-court-biographies/charlesworth_en.pdf

Judge Hilary Charlesworth will give the keynote speech online.

The Koufa Foundation is grateful to Judge Hilary Charlesworth for giving the keynote speech and sharing her expertise in the 2023 Summer Courses!
We look forward to welcoming Judge Hilary Charlesworth at the 2023 Summer Courses!

08/04/2023

‼️2023 Thessaloniki Summer Courses: Don't miss out on early-bird application‼️

Only one week remain before the end of early-bird application deadline for the 8th Thessaloniki Summer Courses on “Women, Gender and International Human Rights Law”.
End of early-bird application: 15 April 2023

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For more information, please visit:
http://www.koufafoundation.org/apply/

We look forward to welcoming you at the 2023 Summer Courses!

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27/03/2023

We are very pleased to welcome Professor Tina Stavrinaki at the 2023 Summer Course. We look forward to her lecture on "Gender-based Discrimination and Hate Crimes”.

Professor Stavrinaki is Assistant Professor in Human Rights and International Law with the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (SIM) and the International and European Law Department, Vice-Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and Rapporteur on the General Recommendation on racial discrimination and the right to health. She teaches International Human Right Law, Racial discrimination and Health, Gender and International Law.

She holds a PhD in international law from the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2)(summa laude and special award), a LLM in comparative European human rights law from the University of Strasbourg – Institut des Hautes Etudes Europeennes and a LLB from the University of Athens. She was post-doctoral researcher on "Hate in Law and in Practice" at the University of Cyprus where she taught Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, Asylum and Migration Law and, as part of a special programme for law enforcement, Policing and Human Rights Law. Previously, she taught at the School of Political Science and Public Administration of the University of Athens.

Professor Stavrinaki litigated on behalf of the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights the collective complaint No. 30/2005, in which the European Committee of Social Rights recognized the right to a healthy environment and how environmental violations in the energy sector breach the rights to just, safe and healthy working conditions.

She has an extensive research and consultancy experience with the National Human Rights Institution and the UNHCR in Greece. She co-founded and coordinated the Racist Violence Recording Network, a widely recognized best practice in recording hate crimes, supporting victims and building synergies between human rights institutions, civil society, and national authorities.

For more information see
https://www.uu.nl/staff/SStavrinaki

We look forward to welcoming Professor Tina Stavrinaki in Thessaloniki!

18/03/2023

It is a great pleasure for Koufa Foundation to welcome Professor Natasa Mavronicola for her lecture at the 2023 Summer Course on "Gender-based Violence as Violation of Human Rights”.

Professor Mavronicola joined Birmingham Law School as a Senior Lecturer in September 2016, and has been Professor of Human Rights Law since 2022. She was previously a Lecturer in Law at Queen’s University Belfast (2013-2016). Between March 2017 and July 2019, she served as Special Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Professor Nils Melzer.

Professor Mavronicola is chiefly interested in the theory and interpretation of human rights. Her research has focused on pursuing dynamic coherence in the interpretation of human rights. With this overarching agenda, she has probed various (often inter-related) aspects of human rights law: the concept of ‘absolute rights’; the delineation of negative and positive obligations under certain fundamental and well-elaborated rights; various intersections between human rights and criminal justice; and the relationship between human dignity and human rights.

She has published on these topics in a number of journals, including the Human Rights Law Review and the Modern Law Review, in edited collections, and in a recent monograph: Torture, Inhumanity and Degradation under Article 3 of the ECHR: Absolute Rights and Absolute Wrongs (Hart Publishing 2021) - recipient of the Society of Legal Scholars’ Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.

For more information see
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/law/mavronicola-natasa.aspx

We look forward to welcoming Professor Natasa Mavronicola at the 2023 Summer Course!

15/03/2023

We are very delighted to welcome Professor Vladislava Stoyanova for her lecture at the 2023 Summer Course on "Domestic Violence and Trafficking as Human Rights Violations".

Professor Vladislava Stoyanova is an Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University (Sweden). She is the holder of the Wallenberg Academy Fellowship (2019-2024) awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. As a Wallenberg Fellow, she leads the project "The Borders within: the Multifaceted Legal Landscape of Migrant Integration in Europe". Her research interests relate to public international law, human rights law, migration law and EU law.

She has acted as a national expert in relation to the Bulgarian legislation in the field of human trafficking and was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Abor, USA and the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford University.

Her publications include the monographs Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States' Positive Obligations in European Law (Cambridge University Press 2017), and four co-edited volumes Seeking Asylum in the European Union: Selected Protection Issues Raised by the Second Phase of the Common European Asylum System (Brill 2015), The New Asylum and Transit Countries in Europe: During and in the Aftermath of the 2015–2016 Crisis (Brill 2018), International Law and Violence against Women: Europe and the Istanbul Convention (Routledge 2020) and Migrants’ Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe (Cambridge University Press 2022).

For more information see
https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/vladislava-stoyanova

We look forward to welcoming Professor Vladislava Stoyanova in Thessaloniki!

10/03/2023

A great honour for Koufa Foundation to welcome Professor Felipe Gómez Isa for a lecture on "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women".

Professor Felipe Gómez Isa is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Deusto and Researcher at the Human Rights Institute in Pedro Arrupe, where he serves as Director of the European Masters in Human Rights and Democratization. He is also a visiting lecturer in a diverse number of universities around the world.

He also directs the Programa de Formación en Derechos Humanos para Líderes Indígenas, which has been in effect since 2000 in collaboration with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Professor Gómez Isa was the Spanish representative to the UN Working Group for the elaboration of an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (New York, 1998 and 1999).

Among many other publications, Professor Felipe Gómez Isa is the author of International Human Rights Law in a Global Context (University of Deusto, co-edited with Koen de Feyter, 2009), Rethinking Transitions. Equality and Social Justice in Societies Emerging From Conflict (Intersentia, co-edited with Gaby Oré, 2011), and “Freedom From Want from a Local Perspective: Evolution and Challenges Ahead”, in The Local Relevance of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, edited by Koen de Feyter, Stephan Parmentier et al., 2011).

For more information see
https://www.deusto.es/en/home/we-are-deusto/team/lecturers/22/profesor

We look forward to welcoming Professor Felipe Gómez Isa in Thessaloniki!

26/02/2023

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE EIGHTH THESSALONIKI SUMMER COURSE!
The Koufa Foundation is pleased to announce the 8th Thessaloniki Summer Courses on “Women, Gender and International Human Rights Law” to be held from Wednesday 28 June to 7 July 2023. The summer course will focus on Women, Gender and International Human Rights Law, one of the most dynamically evolving and challenging fields of international human rights protection. The course will be held in a hybrid format (attendance will be either in person in Thessaloniki, Greece or online via zoom).
For more information, please visit https://www.koufafoundation.org/
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16/12/2022

The Kalliopi Koufa Foundation proudly announces that the topic of the 2023 Thessaloniki Summer Courses on International Law and Human Rights will be "Women, Gender and International Human Rights Law". The Summer Course will be held in hybrid form (in Thessaloniki and via zoom) from 28/6 to 7/7/23. More information will be released soon.

01/12/2022

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