First Fundamental Rights Documents in Europe

Markku Suksi is Professor of Public Law at bo Akademi University (Finland) and former Finnish E.MA National Director. He has published works about constitutional law, autonomy, linguistic rights, the referendum, and elections. Kalliope Agapiou-Josephides is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cyprus (Cyprus) and E.MA National Director (Cyprus). She has published works about political participation of women, European issues and security policy. Jean-Paul Lehners is Professor emeritus of Global History and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights at the University of Luxembourg as well as E.MA National Director (Luxembourg). He has published works in the field of global and demographic history and in the historiographical study of human rights. Manfred Nowak received his PhD from the Law School of the University of Vienna in 1973 ad his LL.M from Columbia University (New York) in 1975. He was UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, UN expert on enforced disappearances and judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is/was visiting professor at the Danish Institute of Human Rights in Copenhagen, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights at Lund University, the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization in Venice, the American University in Washington, D.C., Abo Akademie in Turku and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (Director of SIM from 1987 to 1989). He is Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Vienna University and Co-Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna. He is author of more than 500 publications in the field of human rights, public and international law.