Seminar with V. Stoyanova: New Directions in ECtHR Research: Positive Obligations, Causation, and Responsibility in Human Rights Law.

ČSESP has the pleasure of hosting another seminar as a part of our coffeehouse seminar series with European Law academics.
This time, Vladislava Stoyanova has accepted our invitation and will join us in Brno from Lund University, Sweden. The seminar will take place at the Panksy coffeehouse in Brno at 18:00 on Thursday, April 9th. It will center around New Directions in ECtHR Research: Positive Obligations, Causation, and Responsibility in Human Rights Law.

Vladislava Stoyanova is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University (Sweden). She is the holder of the Wallenberg Academy Fellowship (2021-2026) awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. She is the recipient of the 2023 Henrik Enderlein Prize for research excellence.

Her key publications include Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries (Oxford University Press, 2023, open access), Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States’ Positive Obligations in European Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017), From Protection to Coercion: the Limits of Positive Obligations in Human Rights (Hart Publishing, 2026 open access) and The Role of the Causal Inquiry under the European Convention on Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).