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E.MA Awarded Theses

Each academic year the E.MA Council selects 5 outstanding theses for this annual publication on the basis of their academic quality, originality, and contribution to the promotion and implementation of human rights and democratic values.

 

The E.MA Awarded Theses of the academic year 2010/2011 to be published online on this website are:

  1. Pieter-Jan Hamels, The Use of History in Democratization-processes: Symbols, Traditions, Education and Truth and Justice Policies in Europe
  2. Nathalie Leyns, The Holy See: Sovereign Power internationally recognised. Does the authority the Holy See exercises within the International Community go along with a responsibility for Human Rights violations?
  3. Elizabeth Lynn Schweisfurth, The corporate response to allegations of human rights abuse: an analysis of responses published by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
  4. Chyta Aikaterini, The right to Education for children with mental particularities: An insight to primary special education in France and in Greece
  5. Estévez Picon, Lidia Isabel, Criminalising Hope. Human Rights Implications of the Criminalization of Irregular Immigration in EU Member States and the EU

 

Active ImageThe awarded theses for the E.MA academic years between 1998/1999 and 2009/2010 included were published by Marsilio Editori S.P.A. in Venice (Italy) under its “Ricerche” collection and are available in the EIUC Library.

 

To order volumes of the E.MA Awarded Theses please contact Ms. Corinna Greco, EIUC Communication Manager. For orders of a consistant number she will be happy to assist you in liaising with Marsilio Editori S.P.A. in Venice (Italy).

 

 

E.MA Awarded Theses for the academic year 2009/2010:

  1. Sarah Bassiouni, Our Progressive Nature: The Environment and the Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress and its Applications
  2. Laura Van den Eynde, Litigation Practices of Non-Governmental Organisations before the European Court of Human Rights
  3. Christine Krack, Literature and Human Rights: The Fight against Gender and Racial Discrimination in the Fiction of Buchi Emecheta and Caryl Phillips
  4. Eva Oyon, Networked Revolution? A socio-theoretical assessment of how social networking sites can be used to achieve human rights advocacy goals
  5. Sanna Tulikki Eriksson, Chinese Cultural Values and International Human Rights: How to Conduct Empirical Human Rights Field Work in China

 

E.MA Awarded Theses for the academic year 2008/2009:

  1. Katrin Fischer, YouTube-Broadcast yourself!...and your Propaganda? Freedom of expression and the New Media in Armed Conflict
    (supervised at Ruhr-University Bochum)
  2. Arne Hoffmann, Human Rights in Numbers: Do Global Quantitative Human Rights Indicators Change the International Human Rights Discourse?
    (supervised at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen)
  3. Antoine Meyer, Making Human Rights (') Work: Local Governments Stepping in? Exploring a Potential, with a Focus on Experiences in New York City, Johannesburg and Paris
    (supervised at University of Padua)
  4. Claire San Filippo, Domesticating the 'Dogs of War': the Regulation of Private Military Companies
    (supervised at University of Nottingham)
  5. Cécile Wendling, Education and Reconciliation in the Post-Conflict Kosovo. 1999-2009
    (supervised at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

 

E.MA Awarded Theses for the academic year 2007/2008:

  1. Petr Preclik
    “Culture Re-introduced: Contestation of Human Rights in Contemporary Russia.”
    (Tartu University)
  2. Daniela Jaros
    “Sovereign Debt of Developing Countries: The Problems, their Human Rights Implications and the Possibility of a Bankruptcy Procedure for States in International Law.”
    (Cà Foscari University of Venice)
  3. Johannes-Mikael Maki
    “Ambivalent scope of states' obligations: analysing the territorial and jurisdictional reach of human rights instruments and the effects of de-territorialisation.”
    (University of Bratislava)
  4. Vera Martins Almeida
    “Gender identity discrimination: a form of sexual apartheid.”
    (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  5. Birgit Kunrath
    “Bargaining for Social Justice: the Role of International Framework Agreements for Fair Globalisation."
    (Lund University).

 

E.MA Awarded Theses for the academic year 2006/2007:

  1. BARRETT Lena Bernice
    The Stubborn Pursuit of Justice: Extraterritorial Redress for Torture
    (Supervisor at the University of Vienna: Manfred Nowak)
  2. KERSCHBAUMER Caroline
    Reprisals and similar unwanted consequences of detention monitoring
    (Supervisor at the Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg: Florence Benoit-Rohmer)
  3. RAVNBØL Camilla Ida
    The Human Rights of Minority Women : Challenging International Discourses with the Case of Romani Women
    (Supervisor at Lund University: Christina Johnsson)
  4. SCHERRENS Jonas
    The muscle drain of African football players to Europe: trade or trafficking?
    (Supervisors at the University of Graz: Wolfgang Benedek, Yvonne Schmidt)
  5. TRINCHIERI Luca
    Assessing the European control of small arms exports in the light of the EU's promotion of the democracy and human rights: reality vs. rethoric
    (Supervisor at the University of Hamburg: Michael Brzoska).

 

E.MA Awarded Theses for the academic year 2005/2006:

  1. KAREL DE MEESTER, Corporate Involvement in Gross Human Rights Violations and the Lack of an International Forum, a Future Role to Play for the ICC?
  2. VICKY DILLON, Ideology and Transformation – Human Rights from a Postcolonial Perspective.
  3. EVE GEDDIE, The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Imprisoned Identities.
  4. GAURI VAN GULIK, Confronting the Human in Human Rights.
  5. EMMA REILLY, The Trade Union Rights of Working Children: Do, and Should, Working Children Have a Human Right to Access Trade Unions.

E.MA Awarded Theses for the academic year 2004/2005:

  1. FILIPA GUINOTE, Private Military Firms and the State: Sharing Responsibility for Violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
  2. ERIN KOENIG, Architectural Apartheid and Urban Cleansing: the Politics of Space and Structure in Hyman Rights Discourse.
  3. GEORG KUBER-GRABENWARTER, The World Bank, Human Rights and Oil. 
  4. BLANDINA STECCA, Children, Social Subjects in Time of Emergency: a Compelling Desire for change.
  5. ELAINE WEBSTER, Can You Spare Any Dignity, Please?

E.MA Awarded Theses for the academic year 2003/2004:

  1. THOMAS BARRETT, From the Europe of Auschwitz to the Europe of Strasbourg and Beyond.
  2. ANNA RAQUEL BARDOU, Life Imprisonment: The Paradox of the ICC.
  3. JOCHEN DE VYLDER, The Responsibility of International Organisations, Taking Human Rights Seriously?
  4. MARGARET CHRISTINE MC GOWAN-SMYTH, Towards Justice in Rwanda.
  5. SARA MELKKO, Marketing Human Rights.

E.MA Awarded Theses for the academic year 2002/2003:

  1. JOANA ARAUIO TORRES, No Man's Child" - The War Rape Orphans.
  2. SOPHIE HOFBAUER, The Visualisation of Dignity. Photography from an Ethical Perspective.
  3. DAVID O'CONNELL, Human rights: Political Empowerment or Impoverishment?
  4. GALLIANNE PALAYRET, France's exotic legal order: an implicit recognition of minority rights?
  5. WOLFGANG SAKULIN, The Possible Effects of E.U. Competition Law on Media Plurality. 

E.MA Awarded Theses for the academic year 2001/2002:

  1. ASIF AFRIDI, Unveiling Islam in the media: a critical examination of the under-representation of Islam in British media.
  2. LAURE AMOYEL, Mainstreaming human rights in the European Investment Bank.
  3. JOSÉ MARÍA ARRAIZA, Serb Participation in the provisional institutions of self-government of Kosovo.
  4. CHRISTINA BINDER, Indigenous peoples and their lands. International standards and Domestic implementation. The case of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
  5. ELIZABETH MC ARTHUR, Liberty and security: the state’s dilemma. September 11th and the UK response to terrorism.

E.MA Awarded Theses for the academic year 2000/2001:

  1. VICTOR BOJKOV, The European Union and Democratisation in Small European States: Selected Case Studies From Southern, Central and Southeastern Europe.
  2. ANNA CRAWFORD, Child War Criminals. Is it Possible to Prevent Child Soldiers Being Held Criminally Responsible for War Crimes whilst also Satisfying the Right to Justice in Sierra Leone?
  3. MANUELE FANTINI, How Water Flows through the Veins of Globalisation: Human Right or Economic Commodity? Promoting the Right to Access to Water in the Global Market.
  4. BÁRBARA OLIVEIRA, Using the Technique of Trial Observation for the Study of Indigenous Systems. A Contribution for the Process of Recognition of Indigenous Traditional Judicial Systems in Latin America.
  5. KATARINA PLANCKAERT, Dealing With the Burden of an Authoritarian Past: the Role of the United Nations in Establishing Accountability for Grave Human Rights Violations after a Regime Transition.

E.MA Awarded Theses for the academic year 1999/2000:

  1. MATS LINDFELT, Non-derogable rights and states of emergency:doctrine of treaty-monitoring bodies and identification of non-derogable rights using the link between International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law.
  2. NUALA NI MHUIRCHEARTAIGH, The half-light and shadows: Criminal Deportation from the State of Refugee under Refugee and Human Rights Law. With special reference to the United States and subsidiary examination of the Federal Republic of Germany.
  3. NEL RUIGROK, Ethnic Cleansing. How the Media introduced a new term into International Law?
  4. KATIA SCHEMMANN, Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
  5. HANS VERMEERSCH, Democracy and inequality in a global context: Whether and under what circumstances democracy, in comparison to other forms of government, can lead to a more equal society: statistical analysis.

E.MA Awarded Theses for the academic year 1998/1999:

  1. ANNALISA CRETA, Recent Trends in the International Protection of Internally Displaced Persons.
  2. MACA HOURIHANE, International Humanitarian Law and United Nations: International Committee of the Red Cross and Human Rights: Making the Connections through New Conflicts.
  3. RALF JANSEN, From Portugal to China - Democracy and Human Rights Protection in Macao after the 20th December 1999.
  4. ANNIKA SANDLUND, The Right of Property: Contested Meanings, Contested Claims.
  5. ANDRAS ZIDAR, The European Court of Human Rights and The Question of Remedies.