Venice
Academy of Human Rights

The Venice Academy of Human Rights will take place from 9-18 July 2012. The
theme of this year’s Academy is "The Limits of Human Rights" (http://www.eiuc.org/veniceacademy/).

Online registration is open until 1 May 2012.

Faculty of the Venice Academy 2012
Professor Philip Alston, NYU
Professor Seyla Benhabib, Yale
Professor Martti Koskenniemi, Helsinki
Professor Friedrich Kratochwil, CEU/EUI
Professor Bruno Simma, Ann Arbor/Munich
Professor Henry Steiner, Harvard
Erika Feller, UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection

Key Facts
Participants: Academics, practitioners and PhD/JSD students
Type of courses: Lectures, seminars and optional workshops
Number of hours: 21 hours of compulsory courses (plenum), 16 hours of elective
and optional courses (smaller groups)
Location: Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice – Lido, Italy
Fees: 500 €
 

The Venice Academy of Human Rights is a center of excellence for human rights
education, research and debate. It forms part of the European Inter-University
Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC). The Academy offers
interdisciplinary thematic programmes open to academics, practitioners and
doctoral students with an advanced knowledge of human rights.

A maximum of 55 participants is selected each year.

Participants attend morning lectures, afternoon seminars and workshops and can
exchange views, ideas and arguments with leading international scholars and
other experts. This includes the opportunity to present and discuss their own
"work in progress" such as drafts of articles, chapters of doctoral
theses, books and other projects.

At the end of the program, participants receive a Certificate of Attendance
issued by the Venice Academy of Human Rights.