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Conference Programme:

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15, 2018: LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND PROCESSES

• 9:00 Welcome

Mart Susi, Professor of Human Rights Law, School of Governance, Law and Society, Tallinn University

• 9:15 Keynote Speech

Mikael Rask Madsen, Director of the Centre of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen

• 10.00 Session 1: Baltic countries and Europe (the Strasbourg view)

Overview and Lessons of the Lithuanian Cases in the Strasbourg Court

Egidijus Kuris, Judge, Euroepan Court of Human Rights

Overview and Lessons of the Latvian Cases in the Strasbourg Court

Anta Rutka-Kriškalne, Head of the Office of the Representative of Latvia before International Human Rights Organizations

Overview and Lessons of the Estonian Cases in the Strasbourg Court

Maris Kuurberg, Representative of Estonia before the European Court of Human Rights

Each presentation will conclude with a QA and discussion

• Coffee break at around 11:30
• 12.45 Lunch
• 13:45 Introduction to the East European Yearbook on Human Rights

Mart Susi, Vesna Crnić-Grotić and Michał Balcerzak, Editors of the East European Yearbook on Human Rights

• 14.00 Session 2: Domestic Protection of Human Rights

Remedies against Human Rights violations in Lithuania

Rimvydas Norkus, President of the Supreme Court of Lithuania

Remedies against Human Rights violations in Estonia

Peeter Roosma - Judge at the Supreme Court of Estonia

Remedies against Human Rights violations in Latvia

Arturs Kućs, Judge at the Constitutional Court of Latvia

Each presentation will conclude with a QA and discussion

• Coffee break at around 15:30
• 16.45 Concluding Remarks

Tiina Pajuste, Associate Professor, School of Governance, Law and Society, Tallinn University

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16, 2018: ACTORS AND CHALLENGES

• 9:00 Welcome and Remarks on Yesterday

Hans-Otto Sano, Director of Research, Danish Institute for Human Rights

 Andreas von Arnauld, Walter-Schüking Institute for International Law, Kiel University

•  9:15 Keynote Speech

Sirpa Rautio, Director of the Finnish Human Rights Centre

• 10.00 Session 3: Current and Future Challenges

Current Developments in the Field of LGBT Rights

Phillip Ayoub, Associate Professor in the Department of Diplomacy & World Affairs at Occidental College

Social Practice of Human Rights Protection – The Case of Gender Discrimination

Alina Žvinklienė, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Lithuanian Social Research Center

Security, Fundamental Rights and the Role of Courts

Janneke Gerards, Professor of Fundamental Rights Law at Utrecht University

Freedom of Assembly in the Baltic states in the light of the OSCE/Venice Commission Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly

Alexander Vashkevich, Professor at the European Humanities University Vilnius ans Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of Belarus

Each presentation will conclude with a QA and discussion

• Coffee break at around 11:30
• 12.45 Lunch Break
• 14.00 Session 4: Current and Future Challenges

Simone Hein Nielsen, former employee of the Danish Institute for Human Rights

Mapping the Jurisprudence of the ECtHR in the Baltic Region

Prioritizing National Interest at the Expense of Narrowing Regular Migrant Mobility and Residence

Elina Todorov, PhD Student at the University of Tampere

Climate Change Litigation before the ECtHR

Heta Heiskanen, Post-Doc Researcher at the University of Tampere

The Normative Force of the ECtHR: The Moral Reading of Rights in Minority Cases

Elina Pekkarinen, PhD Candidate at the University of Tampere

The Delfian Model: The ECtHR erred and crashed it in Delfi v. Estonia

Liudmila Sivetc, Doctoral Candidate at the University of Turku

Each presentation will conclude with a QA and discussion

• Coffee break at around 15:30

• 16:45 Closing Remarks

Mart Susi, Professor of Human Rights Law, School of Governance, Law and Society, Tallinn University

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