Gerd Oberleitner
Gerd Oberleitner is Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Professor of International Law and the Law of International Organizations, and UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security. He was Legal Advisor at the Office of the Legal Adviser of the Austrian Foreign Ministry and Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Visiting Professor at the Université du Quebéc à Montréal, Rutgers University, the Universities of Prishtina, Ljubljana, Addis Ababa, Antwerp, and DAAD Visiting Professor at the Ruhr University Bochum.
- European Yearbook on Human Rights (Intersentia/Brill) (co-editor)
- Global Human Rights Institutions: between Remedy and Ritual (Polity 2007)
- Human Rights in Armed Conflict: Law, Practice, Policy (Cambridge University Press 2015)
- Blurring Boundaries: Human Security and Forced Migration (Brill 2017) (co-editor)
- Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals and Courts (Springer 2018) (editor)
- Research Handbook on Human Security and International Law (Edward Elgar 2022) (editor)
COST Action: Global Digital Human Rights Network (GDHRNet) explores the theoretical and practical challenges posed by the online context to the protection of human rights and addresses whether international human rights law is sufficiently detailed to enable governments and private online companies to understand their respective obligations vis-à-vis human rights protection online (2020-2024).
Sports Organizations Matching Social Inclusions Issues (SmatchS) is an EU-funded initiative of six organizations from sport, social and academic areas, willing to contribute with their joint efforts to encouraging social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport. The key idea of the project is to create synergy between sport and social organizations from Spain, France, Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus and Greece in order to develop and apply to the local contexts a methodology for social inclusion of children with migratory background (2021-2024).
HERAS+: Building a post-war justice system in Kosovo: the independence, impartiality, fairness and accountability of the internationalized judiciary. In cooperation with next-generation researchers of the University of Peja, the project investigates how international(ized) judicial institutions operate in a post-conflict setting under the international legal premises of independence, impartiality, fairness and accountability (2021-2024).