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Programs and Projects

Read about the Department´s various study programs and research projects here. Many of these have separate webpages.

Lucerne Academy for Human Rights Implementation

The Lucerne Academy for Human Rights Implementation is a 3-week program of coursework and hands-on learning for law students and legal practitioners held at the University of Lucerne School of Law in Switzerland, in partnership with several distinguished international law schools. This is a summer law program with a distinctly global relevance. Given the realities of human rights implementation, the focus of the program will be on the challenges and practical aspects of litigation and advocacy of human rights. Students will not only learn about the field of human rights, but about how to incorporate that knowledge into the actual work of defending human rights. Special focus will be placed on advocacy skills such as case assessment, brief writing, and oral argumentation. To that end, the Academy will feature a prominent moot court exercise where students will litigate a hypothetical case from beginning to end, culminating in a program-wide competition.


Aside from the practical training, students will also be given a choice of coursework on a variety of topics related to human rights on both progressive and traditional issues. This is a summer law program held in the heart of Europe with a global focus established to create a dynamic and unique training program in human rights.


See www.lucerne-academy.ch

Project: Post-Enlargement Constitutionalization in Central and Eastern Europe

Constitutionalism studies acquired new scientific interest after the collapse of communism in Europe. Since the 1990s European constitutional theory and practice have been the theatre of evolutionary dynamics that have carried it eastwards. The legal aspect of the phenomenon form both a domestic and a European perspective has so far often been neglected.

The project is founded on the current trends of constitutionalization in the European continent, triggered and enhanced by the recent enlargement of the Euopean Union (EU) to Central and Eastern Europe. In the light of what has been a multidimensional accession project, the main research area that will be contemplated is the one that looks at the effects of this enlargement towards the emergence of common constitutional norms and values in Europe. In this respect, the role of European integration is crucial not so much because the European polity increasingly resembles a state but because of its impact on the constitutional fabric of states that have "return(ed) to Europe".

This Project is funded by the Gebert Rüf Foundation.

See www.constitutionalization.ch