The European Union and Human Rights

Jan Wouters is Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, and founding Director of the Institute for International Law and of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, an interdisciplinary research centre with the status of both a Jean Monnet and KU Leuven Centre of Excellence, at KU Leuven. He is also President of KU Leuven's Council for International Policy. He is a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po (Paris), Luiss University (Rome) and the College of Europe (Bruges), and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. A member of the Brussels Bar and of Belgium's Royal Academy, he has published widely on international law, EU law and global governance. He was Coordinator of the FRAME project (2013-2017) and is Coordinator of the RECONNECT project (2018-2022). and a Member of the Belgian Royal Academy.Manfred Nowak is Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights, based in Venice, and Professor for International Human Rights at the University of Vienna. He served as UN Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010 and served as Vice-Chairperson of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency between 2012 and 2017. In October 2016, he was appointed as independent expert leading the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. He is author of over 600 books and articles in the field of human rights.Anna-Luise Chané is a Research Fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and at the Institute for International Law (KU Leuven), and Project Manager of the large-scale Horizon 2020 Project RECONNECT ("Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and Rule of Law"). Her research focuses on the relationship between multilateral organizations, in particular the United Nations and the EU, on the EU and human rights, and on human dignity in the case law of international courts and tribunals. Anna-Luise studied law at the University of Cologne and the University of Leuven and passed her First and Second Juridical State Examination with distinction. She holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School, where she was an ERP Scholar of the German Ministry of Economy and Technology and the German National Academic Foundation.Dr Nicolas Hachez was the manager of the FRAME project (www.fp7-frame.eu) from 2013 to 2017. Nicolas is currently Associate Fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and was previously Lecturer in EU and international law at KU Leuven (2017-2018), Senior Researcher at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies (2008-2018), and Associate Attorney in the Brussels office of an international law firm (2004-2008). Nicolas' research lies at the intersection between international economic law and international human rights law and is featured in numerous international books and journals.

• Herman Van Rompuy: Forward: a union of values Jan Wouters, Anna-Luise Chané, Manfred Nowak: The European Union and human rights: law and policy - an introduction Framework 1: Jan Wouters: From an economic community to a union of values: the emergence of the EU's commitment to human rights 2: Eva Maria Lassen: Factors enabling and hindering the promotion and protection of human rights by the EU 3: Lorena Sosa and Alexandra Timmer: Conceptual underpinnings of the EU's commitment to human rights 4: Chiara Altafin, Karin Lukas, Manfred Nowak: The normative framework of the EU's commitment to human rights: the Treaties, the Charter, Member States' constitutional traditions, and international law 5: Monika Mayrhofer: The EU's institutional human rights architecture Actors 6: Jan Wouters: The EU's engagement with its Member States on human rights 7: Anna-Luise Chané: The EU's engagement with the United Nations on human rights 8: Jakub Jaraczewski, Wladyslaw Józwicki, Zdzislaw Kedzia: The EU's engagement with the Council of Europe and the OSCE on human rights 9: Elizabeth Salmon and Magnus Killander: The EU's engagement with non-European regional organizations on human rights 10: Pál Dunay: The EU's engagement with the Eastern Partnership on human rights 11: T. Jeremy Gunn and Alvaro Lagresa: The human rights encounter between the EU and its Southern Mediterranean partners 12: Francisca Costa Reis, Weiyuan Gao, Vineet Hedge: The EU's engagement with foreign powers on human rights: Brazil, China and India 13: Jeff Kenner, Katrina Peake, Stuart Wallace: The EU's engagement with civil society on human rights 14: Mary E. Footer: The EU's engagement with business on human rights Policies 15: Beata Huszka and Zsolt Körtvélyesi: EU enlargement policy and human rights 16: Nicolas Hachez and Axel Marx: EU trade policy and human rights 17: Brecht Lein: Human rights in EU development cooperation 18: Carmen Marquez Carrasco: Human rights in the EU's common security and defence policy 19: Elina Pirjatanniemi and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso: EU migration policy and human rights 20: Elina Pirjatanniemi and Mikaela Heikkilä: EU security and counterterrorism policies and human rights 21: Cristina Churruca Muguruza and Felipe Gómez Isa: EU human rights and democratization policy 22: Wolfgang Benedek: The EU's engagement with human rights defenders Strategies 23: Markus Möstl, Maddalena Vivona, Isabella Meier, Klaus Starl: EU practices on measuring human rights 24: Manfred Nowak and Karolina Podstawa: The EU's (strategic) use of human rights tools and instruments 25: Lisa Ginsborg and Graham Finlay: Towards ever greater coherence? Human rights policies in the evolving EU 26: Nicolas Hachez: Conclusion: delivery, coherence and effectiveness - a triple challenge for the EU's commitment to human rights