The present volume contains the five awarded theses of the academic year 2003/2004 of the European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (
http://www.ema-humanrights.org ) run by EIUC - European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (http://www.eiuc.org ).Ana Raquel Bardou, Life Imprisonment: The Paradox of the ICC (Supervisor: Prof. Dirk van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham)
Thomas D. Barrett, From the Europe of Auschwitz to the Europe of Strasbourg, and Beyond (Supervisor: Prof. René Foqué, Catholic University Leuven)
Jochen De Vylder, The Responsibility of International Organisations: Taking Human Rights Seriously? (Supervisor: Prof. Jan Klabbers, University of Helsinki)
Margaret Christine Mcgowan-Smyth, Towards Justice in Rwanda(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Horst Fischer, Ruhr-University Bochum)
Sara Melkko, Marketing Human Rights (Supervisor: Prof. Fabrizio Marrella, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Like E.MA in the past, EIUC is primarily sponsored by the European Commission and receives valuable additional support from the Region of Veneto and Municipality of Venice.
As of 2005, the EIUC composition includes the following 32 universities: University of Graz and University of Vienna (Austria), Catholic University Leuven and Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), University of Copenhagen and University of Southern Denmark in cooperation with the Danish Institute for Human Rights (Denmark), Tartu University (Estonia), Åbo Akademy University (Finland), Université R. Schuman Strasbourg (France), Ruhr-University Bochum and University of Hamburg (Germany), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Panteion University Athens (Greece), Széchenyi University of Györ (Hungary), National University of Ireland, Galway and University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin (Ireland), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and University of Padua (Italy), University of Latvia (Latvia), University of Vilnius (Lithuania), Université du Luxembourg (Luxembourg), University of Malta (Malta), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland), New University of Lisbon and University of Coimbra (Portugal), Comenius University, Bratislava (Slovakia), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), University of Deusto, Bilbao and University of Seville (Spain), Maastricht University (The Netherlands), Queen’s University Belfast and University of Nottingham (United Kingdom).
The E.MA Universities co-operating with EIUC are: University of Helsinki (Finland), Université de Montpellier (France), Lund University and Uppsala University (Sweden), and Utrecht University (The Netherlands).
