Law

Below you will find research projects that concern research discipline Law.

Compliance with Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and Domestic Change in Post-Soviet States

Duration: September 2013 - June 2018

Project leader: Ausra Padskocimaite | Project page

The focus of the PhD project is the domestic implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in post-communist states. The aim of the dissertation is to understand under what conditions domestic implementation of the judgments is effective, i.e. leads to positive legal changes in the specific area of human rights.

Critical normativity in law, ethics, and politics

Duration: 2016 - ongoing

Project leader: Elena Namli | Project page

The main purpose of this project is to map out a new approach to the controversy between legal positivism and natural law theory regarding the views on how law and morality are related.