News & Events

Dr Agnieszka Kubal presented at the When Justice Migrants workshop. Her talk has since been published in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civil and Political Studies: ‘Dissenting Consciousness: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Russian Migration Cases before the European Court of Human Rights’.

Dr Kubal and Denis Shedov represented the HuRiEE team at the 2023 BASEES conference in Glasgow. Dr Kubal presented a paper on ‘Women’s complaint to ECtHR as a window into the Polish society’ and Denis Shedov participated in a panel on Russia’s exit from the Council of Europe. 

Dr Kubal and Dr Huszka (supported by Prof Birgit Apitzsch, Bochum and Prof Ramona Coman, Brussels) have been awarded follow up funding from the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers Symposia for their project on ‘Comparing Judicial Activism’.

Dr Kubal and Dr Huszka presented at the 2023 Annual meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law: Law, Society, and Digital Pasts, Presents and Futures. Dr Kubal presented early research from the HuRiEE project on a sociological profile of court applicants and Dr Huszka discussed legal mobilization for language rights of the Hungarian minority in Romania.

Dr Kubal organised the ‘Rule of law Crisis in Poland'. A public lecture with Professor Adam Bodnar (SWPS)’ event at SSEES.

Dr Kubal and Dr Huszka, together with the project partners Professor Birgit Apitzsch and Professor Ramona Coman attended the launch of the ‘Judicial Activism as a modality of resistance and a form of communication’ project in Brussels. Dr Kubal introduced the keynote speaker for the conference, Professor John Morijn.

Dr Kubal was a guest speaker for the keynote plenary discussion at the 22^nd Annual Alexantieri Conference in Helsinki. The conference centred on discussions of ‘Decolonizing Space in the Global East: Legal Choices, Political Transformations, Carceral Practices’.

The HuRiEE team conducted our third team away day and met in Berlin to finalise the publication strategy for the project. Watch this space for updates! 

The project PI, Dr Kubal, presented at the 2023 ASEEES annual convention in Philadelphia as part of a panel on ‘Access to Justice: Challenges in Russia, Eastern Europe and Kazakhstan’. Dr Kubal reflected on the ways that Polish citizens mobilised through the European Court of Human Rights in response to authoritarian backsliding following the infamous abortion law.

Beáta Huszka published an op-ed (with a co-author, Zsolt Körtvélyesi) in the EU Law Live Symposium entitled “The Impact of Enlargement on Human Rights in the EU: Disentangling Negative Trends”. 

Hanna Oliinyk represented HuRiEE at the British International Studies Association Conference in Birmingham (BISA 2024). She spoke at a roundtable titled 'Ukrainian Identity, Regional Diversity, and Wartime Unity,' where she discussed how Ukrainian human rights activists and legal professionals are addressing the challenges of the Russian war in Ukraine. 

Hanna Oliinyk took part in the 'Re(kn)own: Region(s) from Within' Conference, organised by the RUTA Association. She participated in the roundtable 'Decolonizing ''Communist Secret Services Archives'': Memory Politics, Human Rights, and Knowledge Production Challenges,' where she talked about 'Search for Human Rights in the Ukrainian Communist Archives.'

Hanna Oliinyk took part in the 'Witnessing the War in Ukraine: Testimony in the Pursuit of Justice' Summer Institute in Wrocław, Poland. The event centred on testimony research and its role to advance justice, with particular focus on the concept of genocide.

Beáta Huszka participated in the 'Representing Law' conference in Bangor, Wales, organised by the Research Committee on Sociology of Law. She took part in the 'Legal Consciousness: the Use of Micro Lenses' panel and spoke about mobilising European courts in defence of sexual minorities' rights in Hungary and Romania.

Dr Agnieszka Kubal represented HuRiEE at the 'Exploring the ‘Human’ of the European Court of Human Rights' workshop in Zurich. She participated in the 'Humans on and Before the Bench' panel and discussed 'Who Are the Humans Behind Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia?'.