Helen Keller

Helen Keller is a full professor of International Public Law, former Judge of the ECtHR and current judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Symposium
Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

A Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment

The ICJ's advisory opinion has been subject to high expectations. At first glance, these expectations appear to have been met. However, upon closer examination, it becomes clear that various statements...

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Protecting Human Rights During the Climate Crisis

Pranav Ganesan Helen Keller

This blogpost was inspired by a question that arose in an international climate case concerning emissions reductions obligations under human rights law. During the oral proceedings of KlimaSeniorinnen and Others...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Friendly Settlements as the Sleeping Beauty in Inter-State Cases

Helen Keller Réka Piskóty

With their flexible legal framework, friendly settlements (‘FS’) before the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’) have proved helpful in managing the Court’s ever-growing caseload of individual applications (Keller et...