Children and Rights to Identity at the European Court of Human Rights

17.10.2024 14:15 - 15:30English

How has human rights law and the European Court of Human Rights developed the right to personal identity?

The European Court of Human Rights Photo: Council of Europe

In her presentation, Jill Marshall examines how human rights law, particularly the European Court of Human Rights, has developed the right to personal identity under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Building on previous work, she focuses on the Court’s case law relating to children, analyzing how personal identity is protected and interpreted.

Marshall critiques the role of human rights law in shaping personal identities from birth and explores what the Court has achieved and could achieve in this area.

Moderator: Ana Côrtes

The lecture is free and open to all.

The seminar is part of the RDV series, a collaboration between the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism and the Centre on Law and Social Transformation at the University of Bergen. The RDV-webinar series is an interdisciplinary webinar where national and international researchers are invited to talk about their pioneering research on topics regarding law, democracy, and welfare. It is also part of the PhD course on Gendered Autocratization at the Department of Government, UiB.

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Bergen Global
Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen

17.10.2024
14:15 - 15:30
English
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Jill Marshall
Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London

Jill Marshall is Professor of Law, at Department of Law and Criminology, Royal Holloway, University of London, and co-directs the interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law (CSEL). She also leads the Rights and Freedoms research cluster and postgraduate research within her department. She is a qualified lawyer.

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