A joint initiative between the University of Bergen
and CMI – Chr. Michelsen Institute
How has human rights law developed and interpreted the right to a personal identity?
Photo: Yunus Tuğ The right to personal identity has largely arisen from a right to respect for one’s private life. In this seminar, Jill Marshall analyses whose rights are protected and what role human rights law play in the formation, and protection, of permissible personal identities. What has been, and what could be, achieved?
Marshall looks at applied philosophy and case law and concentrates on recent cases from the European Court of Human Rights. This includes cases on Islamic headscarves, secret births, and intercultural adoption.
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.
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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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.
Her work focuses on the relationship between law and living well, human flourishing, what it means to be free, with a focus on girls’ and women’s human rights. She has written widely on these topics and is the author of three books and one edited collection. Current projects include conceptually distinguishing pregnancy and giving birth from motherhood, baby boxes and secret births, deception and identity in the metaverse, and freedom of religion, expression, and identity through dress.
Bergen Global is a joint initiative between the University of Bergen and Chr. Michelsen Institute that addresses global challenges.
