Please join us for a lunchtime talk with Judge Anna Yudkivska. Judge Yudkivska is among the youngest and most admired judges sitting on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg. Judge Yudkivska’s native Ukraine leads Europe in the number of cases filed in the ECtHR, reflecting, in part, the crises in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. In Strasbourg last November Pope Francis aptly described the ECtHR as representing “the conscience of Europe” in regard to human rights. How the Court reconciles the imperatives of conscience with the realities of human rights law and the expectations of 800 million Europeans will be among the issues Judge Yudkivska will address.The talk is sponsored by the Human Rights Institute, Rightslink, the Human Rights Law Review, the Columbia European Law Association, the Columbia Society of International Law, and International Senior Lawyers Project.
