Isabella Risini

Isabella Risini is currenlty a visiting professor of Public Law at Augsburg University and a lecturer for public law at the law faculty of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She is a member of the scientific advisory board of Völkerrechtsblog. Her PhD thesis The Inter-State Application under the European Convention on Human Rights– Between Collective Enforcement of Human Rights and International Dispute Settlement was published by Brill in 2018.

Article

Parting Paths – Russia’s Inevitable Exit From the Council of Europe

Isabella Risini Andrew Forde

Since 24 February 2022, Europe has been shaken by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This blatant violation of international law led to the suspension of Russia’s rights of representation at...

Symposium
Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Of Foxes Guarding Chickens, and Their Fellow Foxes

Isabella Risini Geir Ulfstein Andreas Zimmermann

Ever since the adoption of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the system of inter-State applications has constituted an inherent and indeed important part of its enforcement mechanism, as...

Symposium
Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

On Current Developments and Reforms

Justine Batura Isabella Risini

What is the significance of inter-State cases within the European System of Human Rights? And what does their constant increase over the last decade mean for the European Court of...

Interview

A ‘golden age’ of inter-state complaints?

Isabella Risini Justine Batura Lukas Kleinert

Recently, the Principality of Liechtenstein brought an inter-state complaint against the Czech Republic to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Already before, the two countries shared a complicated relationship....

Symposium
Lehre des internationalen Rechts

Moot Courts in der Lehre des internationalen Rechts – eine kritische Würdigung

Sebastian Wuschka Isabella Risini

Unser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob sich eine verstärkte Einbindung von Moot Courts in der Lehre des internationalen Rechts lohnt. Praxisnähe und die Steigerung der Reflexionskompetenzen der Teilnehmer sind...