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The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights (ECI) was established in 1998 within the Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki as a centre for research and study. The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights was named after Professor Erik Castrén.

The aim of the Institute is to promote research on human rights and new approaches to public international law.

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News

1. 8 May 2013: ECI & Foreign Ministry co-organize a seminar on The United Nations and International Law: Aspects of Peace and Security on 17 May 2013 (register by 14 May!)
2. 29 Apr. 2013: ECI & Pugwash co-host a seminar on Iran Sanctions Regime on 6 June 2013
3. 07 Mar. 2013: Website for the project Law and the Other in Post-Multicultural Europe, co-directed by ECI's Magdalena Kmak, launched
4. 06 Feb. 2013: ECI, together with Ministry of Defence, organize a panel discussion on cyber security, 11 March 2013, in Finnish (invitation)
5. 05 Feb. 2013: First speakers of the ECI Summer Seminar announced
6. 15 Jan. 2013: Next week, on 22 Jan. 2013, ECI & the Ministry for Foreign Affairs co-organize a seminar with ICTY Prosecutor Serge Brammertz
7. 28 Nov. 2012: ECI successfully hosted the ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda yesterday in a seminar in the Great Hall of the University Main Building
8. 20 Nov. 2012: ECI and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs co-host a guest lecture by ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on 27 Nov.
9. 20 Nov. 2012: ECI researchers co-organize the Europe at the Edge of Pluralism Conference on 13-14 Jun. 2013
10. 8 Nov. 2012: Live broadcast of Jarna Petman's discussion with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate President Ahtisaari and journalist/documentarist Elina Hirvonen (in Finnish)
11. 6 Nov. 2012: Jan Klabbers the new Martti Ahtisaari Academy Professor focusing on ethics of global governance (the news article in English coming later)
12. 18 Oct. 2012: New ECI research project “Intellectual History of International Law: Empire and Religion” website launched

Martti Koskenniemi: New Articles

1. Law, Teleology and International Relations: An Essay in Counterdisciplinarity (International Relations 2012 26: 3)
2. THE PUBLIC LAW OF EUROPE. Reflections on a French 18th century Debate (Published in: Helena Lindemann et al (eds), Erzählungen vom Konstitutionalismus (Baden-Baden, Nomos 2012), 43-73.)
3. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE EMERGENCE OF MERCANTILE CAPITALISM Grotius to Smith (unpublished paper)
4. - Histories of International law: Dealing with Eurocentrism, Zeitschrift des Max-Planck-Instituts für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Rg 19/2011
5. The mystery of legal obligation, International Theory (2011), 3:2, 319–325

Other News & Recent Publications:

1. University of Helsinki news (in Finnish): Ihmisoikeudet terrorismin vastaisen sodan jaloissa
2. ECI receives excellent results in the University of Helsinki international research evaluation - for more, see http://www.helsinki.fi/arviointi2010-2012/eng/
3. Koskenniemi awarded Doctor Honoris Causa at Frankfurt Goethe University
4. Koskenniemi again selected for the Academy Professor 2012-2016
5. Magdalena Kmak: The Scope and Application of the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction
6. University of Helsinki news (in Finnish): Uuskolonialistista rikosoikeutta?
7. Koskenniemi: EMPIRE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE REAL SPANISH CONTRIBUTION, University of Toronto Law Journal, Volume 61, Number 1 /2011
8. Koskenniemi: What Use for Sovereignty Today? Asian Journal of International Law, 1 (2011), pp. 61–70
9. Jan Klabbers: Autonomy, constitutionalism and virtue in international institutional law: forthcoming in Nigel White & Richard Collins (eds.), International Organisations and the Idea of Autonomy (Routledge 2011)
10. Klabbers: Global Governance before the ICJ: Re-reading the WHA Opinion:13 Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (2009), 1-28