Nesa Zimmermann

Nesa Zimmermann is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Geneva and Co-director of the Law Clinic for the Rights of Vulnerable Persons. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Geneva, a LL.M. from King’s College, London, and a MLaw from the University of Neuchâtel. Her fields of expertise include human rights law, migration law and constitutional law. Completed in 2020, her Ph.D. analyses particular aspects of vulnerability-reasoning in the caselaw of the ECtHR. She is an editor at Völkerrechtsblog.

Symposium
Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective

Climate Change Litigation: What the ECtHR Could Learn from Courts in the Global South

Melanie Murcott Maria Antonia Tigre Nesa Zimmermann

Climate change is increasingly recognized as an issue of justice, including because it is causing (and worsening) human rights violations (see here, here, and here). In response to climate injustice,...

Interview

The Closing Door in Strasbourg

Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou Justine Batura Nesa Zimmermann

In response to the invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukrainian territory, the Committee of Ministers (CoM) has decided yesterday to suspend its rights of representation in the Council of...

Book Review
Symposium
The Justification of War and International Order

War! What Is It Good For?

Sué González Hauck Sebastian M. Spitra Nesa Zimmermann

‘The history of war is also a history of its justification’ (p. 3) – this is the momentous starting point of the volume on The Justification of War and International...

#Ö: Our own News

Editorial #5: On Planet Earth and Beyond

Nesa Zimmermann

In our last editorial, my colleagues have reflected upon some recent evolutions on the Völkerrechtsblog, such as the diversification of our communication methods and the increased publishing pace. While not...

Symposium
Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

COVID-19 and “New” Human Rights Symposium

Maria Antonia Tigre Anna-Julia Saiger Nesa Zimmermann

Legal debates on the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the urgently needed containment measures, the distribution of vaccines, and the protection of human rights are flourishing. A year after the WHO declared...

Symposium

Call for Contributions: COVID-19 and “New” Human Rights

Maria Antonia Tigre Nesa Zimmermann Anna-Julia Saiger

COVID-19 has spread all over the world, unequivocally reaching countries of very different socio-economic development. Yet, COVID-19 has unequally affected different groups and communities around the world and continues to...

Symposium
Empty Chairs

Empty chairs

Justine Batura Nesa Zimmermann

“Enforced disappearance is a particularly heinous crime”. This phrase has been repeated time and again by civil society organisations and UN experts, and states have condemned this crime countless times....

Symposium
Empty Chairs

Call for Contributions: Symposium on Enforced Disappearances

Justine Batura Nesa Zimmermann

The year 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED) and the 40th anniversary...