The UN Human Rights Committee, in discharging its mandate, plays an important role in the interpretation of individual rights and State obligations contained in the Covenant. Recently, this interpretative function has been viewed with scepticism and perceived as overly expansive by certain stakeholders.
Drawing insights from the Committee’s recent practice, this lecture offers a personal perspective on the dynamics of the interpretative function of the HRC.
Photini Pazartzis is Professor of Public International Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Director of the Athens Public International Law Center of the Faculty of Law of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and currently a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law (2017-2018) She is member of the UN Human Rights Committee (ICCPR). She is Vice President of the European Society of International Law and Co-Chair of the ILA Study Group on: The Content and Evolution of Rules of Interpretation.
The Lauterpacht Centre Friday lecture series is kindly supported by Cambridge University Press.
Numbers are limited so please arrive early to avoid disappointment.
Please note the lecture is subject to revision without notice.
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