Martin Scheinin
British Academy Global Professor
Biography
In August 2020, Professor Martin Scheinin joined the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights as a British Academy Global Professor. His research project “Addressing the Digital Realm through the Grammar of Human Rights Law” will run for four academic years (2020-2024).
Professor Scheinin joined the Bonavero Institute from the European University Institute where he has been Professor of International Law and Human Rights since 2008. He is the author of numerous books and articles concerning international and European human rights law, international courts and tribunals, the law of treaties, as well as comparative constitutional law. He was the leader of the EU-funded research project SURVEILLE that in 2012-2015 developed a multidisciplinary methodology to assess holistically the security benefits, cost efficiency, moral harm and human rights intrusion of a wide range of surveillance technologies, including those employed in relation to the threat of terrorism. Besides his academic expertise, Professor Scheinin will brings to the Bonavero Institute his extensive experience in the practice of human rights law, having served on the United Nations Human Rights Committee (1997-2004), as UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism (2005-2011) and as a member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (since 2018).
The project will also address a range of interconnected challenges related to the exponential growth of information created, communicated, stored and exploited in electronic and overwhelmingly digitised form. These challenges are societal, and they have distinct and important legal dimensions that will be addressed in respect of human rights law through one overarching research question: Is human rights law, as it has developed within the post-1945 conceptual framework, capable of addressing the major challenges that characterize the current digital information age. The programme of work will convene a series of annual workshops between conceptual thinkers, experts and policy-makers and result in several journal articles across its wide range of sub-themes, culminating in a final conference and an academic monograph in 2024. The research examines whether both the moral principles underpinning human rights law and existing human rights law are capable of addressing the new and emerging challenges concerning the digital realm. The research project includes a focus on some of the human rights issues that arise from state responses to the current COVID-19 global pandemic, in particular questions relating to digital surveillance, privacy and discrimination.
Publications
Krupiy T and Scheinin M, ‘Disability Discrimination in the Digital Realm: How the ICRPD Applies to Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Processes and Helps in Determining the State of International Human Rights Law’ (2023) 23(3) Human Rights Law Review
Gherbaoui T and Scheinin M, ‘A Dual Challenge to Human Rights Law: Online Terrorist Content and Governmental Orders to Remove it’
Korkea-Aho E and Scheinin M, ‘“Could you, would you, should you?” Regulating cross-border travel through COVID-19 soft law in Finland’ (2021) 12(S1) European Journal of Risk Regulation 26
Scheinin M, ‘Leading the World Requires a New Approach to Terrorism, Based on a Moral Principle’ (2021) 27(3) Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 333
Scheinin M, ‘Towards evidence-based discussion on surveillance: A Rejoinder to Richard A. Epstein’ (2016) 12(2) European Constitutional Law Review 341
Scheinin M, ‘The Italian Constitutional Court’s Judgment 238 of 2014 Is Not Another Kadi Case’ (2016) 14(3) Journal of International Criminal Justice 615
Scheinin M, ‘The state of our Union: Confronting the future’ (2015) 13(3) International Journal of Constitutional Law 559
Scheinin M, ‘Foreword’ [2013] Secrecy, National Security and the Vindication of Constitutional Law ix
Scheinin M, ‘International Organizations and Transnational Corporations at a World Court of Human Rights’ (2012) 3(4) Global Policy 488
Lavapuro J, Ojanen T and Scheinin M, ‘Rights-based constitutionalism in Finland and the development of pluralist constitutional review’ (2011) 9(2) International Journal of Constitutional Law 505
Scheinin M, ‘EU Counter-Terrorist Policies and Fundamental Rights — The Case of Individual Sanctions by Christina Eckes (Oxford University Press, 2009), 512 pages, £60, Hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-957376-9’ (2010) 29(1) Yearbook of European Law 539
Scheinin M and Vermeulen M, ‘Unilateral Exceptions to International Law: Systematic Legal Analysis and Critique of Doctrines that Seek to Deny or Reduce the Applicability of Human Rights Norms in the Fight Against Terrorism’
Kamminga M and Scheinin M, ‘Preface’ [2009] The Impact of Human Rights Law on General International Law
Langford M and others, ‘Preface’ [2009] Global Justice, State Duties: The Extraterritorial Scope of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law xvii
Scheinin M, ‘Is the ECJ Ruling in Kadi Incompatible with International Law?’ (2009) 28(1) Yearbook of European Law 637
Scheinin M, ‘The ICJ and the Individual’ (2007) 9(2) International Community Law Review 123
Scheinin M, ‘The Proposed Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Blueprint for UN Human Rights Treaty Body Reform—Without Amending the Existing Treaties’ (2006) 6(1) Human Rights Law Review 131
Scheinin M, ‘Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion’ (2000) 54(1) Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology 5
Scheinin M and Rosas A, ‘Les libertés fondamentales figurant dans la Constitution finlandaise’ (1995) 47(3) Revue Internationale De Droit Comparé 643
Scheinin H and Scheinin M, ‘Monoamine metabolite levels in rat CSF: kinetic studies.’ (1987) 61(3) Pharmacology & Toxicology 167
HEIKKILÄ M, KNUUTILA J and SCHEININ M, ‘State and Church in Finland’ 2 European Journal for Church and State Research - Revue européenne Des Relations Églises-État 115
Scheinin M, ‘Tshernobyl, immuunikato, terrorismi : miten turvavaltio vastaa uusiin riskeihin?’ 12(4) Tiede & Edistys
SCHEININ M and LANGFORD M, ‘Evolution or Revolution? – Extrapolating from the Experience of the Human Rights Committee’ 27(01) Nordic Journal of Human Rights 98
Scheinin M, International Human Rights Norms in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (2023) 1
Patterson D and Södersten A (eds.), A Companion to European Union Law and International Law (Wiley 2016)
Bell J and Paris M-L (eds.), Rights-Based Constitutional Review (Edward Elgar Publishing 2016)
McGonagle T and Donders Y (eds.), The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information (Cambridge University Press 2015)
Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism, Human rights perspectives (Taylor & Francis 2013)
Grogan J and Donald A, Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic (Routledge)
Scheinin M, ‘Indigenous peoples’ right to fish: Recent recognition of Sámi rights in Finland through civil disobedience and criminal trial’ in D Cambou and O Ravna (eds.), The Significance of Sámi Rights: Law, Justice, and Sustainability for the Indigenous Sámi in the Nordic Countries (Taylor & Francis 2023)
Myntti K and Scheinin M, ‘The Right of Domicile in the Åland Islands in the Light of Human Rights Treaties and the European Integration Process’, Autonomy and Demilitarisation in International Law: the Åland Islands Ina Changing Europe (2023)
Scheinin M, ‘INCORPORATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN FINLAND’, International Human Rights Norms in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (2023)
Scheinin M, ‘GENERAL INTRODUCTION’, International Human Rights Norms in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (2023)
Scheinin M, ‘Assessing human rights compliance during COVID-19’, Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
Scheinin M, ‘Finland’s success in combatting COVID-19: Mastery, miracle or mirage?’, Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
Scheinin M, ‘Death Penalty’ in A Peters and M Sólveigardóttir (eds.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2021)
Scheinin M, ‘A Proposal for a Kantian Definition of Terrorism’, 9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2021)
Scheinin M and Molbæk-Steensig H, ‘Human rights- based versus populist responses to the pandemic’, COVID-19 and Human Rights (2021)
Scheinin M, ‘Security, Right to, International Protection’ in A Peters and M Sólveigardóttir (eds.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2020)
Paulussen C and Scheinin M, ‘Introduction’, Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism (T.M.C. Asser Press 2020)
Scheinin M, ‘Human Dignity, Human Security, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism’, Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism (Springer Nature 2020)
Scheinin M, ‘How and Why to Assess the Relevance of Human Rights Norms in ‘Other’ International Courts’, Human Rights Norms in ‘Other’ International Courts (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019)
Scheinin M, ‘Taking Stock: Relevance of Human Rights Norms in ‘Other’ International Courts’, Human Rights Norms in ‘Other’ International Courts (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019)
Scheinin M, ‘Impact of post-9/11 counter-terrorism measures on all human rights’, Using Human Rights to Counter Terrorism (Edward Elgar Publishing 2018)
Scheinin M, ‘The art and science of interpretation in human rights law’, Research Methods in Human Rights: A Handbook (2018)
Scheinin M and Vermeulen M, ‘Unilateral exceptions to international law: Systematic legal analysis and critique of doctrines that seek to deny or reduce the applicability of human rights norms in the fight against terrorism’, Challenges in International Human Rights Law (2017)
Scheinin M, ‘Taking seriously indigenous peoples’ right of self-determination and the principle of ’free, prior and informed consent’: Human Rights Committee, 2102/2011, Paadar et al. v Finland’, Integrated Human Rights in Practice: Rewriting Human Rights Decisions (2017)
Scheinin M, ‘Indirect Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law’, The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2016)
Scheinin M, ‘International Human Rights Law’, A Companion to European Union Law and International Law (2016)
Scheinin M, ‘Chapter 2: United Nations law: substantive constitutionalism through human rights versus formal hierarchy through Article 103 of the Charter’, Constitutionalism Across Borders in the Struggle Against Terrorism (Edward Elgar Publishing 2016)
Lavapuro J, Ojanen T and Scheinin M, ‘Chapter 5: Finland’, Rights-Based Constitutional Review (Edward Elgar Publishing 2016)
Lavapuro J, Ojanen T and Scheinin M, ‘Intermediate constitutional review in Finland: Promising in theory, problematic in practice’, Rights-Based Constitutional Review: Constitutional Courts in a Changing Landscape (2016)
Scheinin M, ‘Chapter 9: The judiciary in times of terrorism and surveillance: a global perspective’, Judges as Guardians of Constitutionalism and Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing 2016)
Scheinin M, ‘International Human Rights Law and the Islamic Headscarf: A Short Note on the Positions of the European Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee’, Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues (2016)
Scheinin M, Van Genugten W and Vandenhole W, ‘Preface’, Challenging Territoriality in Human Rights Law: Building Blocks for a Plural and Diverse Duty-Bearer Regime (2015)
Scheinin M, ‘Limits to freedom of expression: lessons from counter-terrorism’, The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2015)
Scheinin M, ‘Counter-terrorism and human rights’, Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law (2014)
Scheinin M and Meyerson D, ‘The limits of punishment’, Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law (Taylor & Francis 2013)
Scheinin M, ‘International human rights law and the islamic headscarf: A short note on the positions of the European court of human rights and the human rights committee’, Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues (2013)
Scheinin M, ‘Just Another Word? Jurisdiction in the Roadmaps of State Responsibility and Human Rights’, Global Justice, State Duties (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2012)
Scheinin M, ‘International human rights law and the Islamic headscarf: A short note on the positions of the European Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee’, Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues (2012)
Scheinin M, ‘Resisting panic: lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after 9/11’, The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2012)
Scheinin M and Vermeulen M, ‘International law: Human rights law and state responsibility’, International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability (2011)
Scheinin M, ‘European human rights as universal rights: In defence of a holistic understanding of human rights’, Shaping Rights in the Echr: The Role of the European Court of Human Rights in Determining the Scope of Human Rights (2011)
Scheinin M, ‘Impact on the Law of Treaties’, The Impact of Human Rights Law on General International Law (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2009)
Scheinin M, ‘The United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Article 27 and other provisions’, Synergies in Minority Protection (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2009)
Scheinin M, ‘Human rights committee: Not only a committee on civil and political rights’, Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law (2009)
Scheinin M, ‘Monitoring Human Rights Obligations and the Fight against Terrorism: Whose Obligations? And Monitored How?’, Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library (2009)
Langford M and others, ‘Introduction: An emerging field’, Global Justice, State Duties: The Extraterritorial Scope of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law (2009)
Francioni F and Scheinin M, ‘Preface’, Cultural Human Rights (Brill Academic Publishers 2008)
Francioni F and Scheinin M, ‘Preface’ in F Francioni and M Scheinin (eds.), Cultural Human Rights (2008)
Scheinin M, ‘The Right of a people to enjoy its culture: Towards a Nordic Saami rights convention’ in F Francioni and M Scheinin (eds.), Cultural Human Rights (Brill 2008)
Scheinin M, ‘Constitutionalism and Approaches to Rights in the Nordic Countries’, Constitutionalism: New Challenges (Brill | Nijhoff 2008)
Francioni F and Scheinin M, ‘Preface’, Cultural Human Rights (Brill | Nijhoff 2008)
Scheinin M, ‘7 The Right of a People to Enjoy Its Culture: towards a Nordic Saami Rights Convention’, Cultural Human Rights (Brill Academic Publishers 2008)
SCHEININ M, ‘Access to Justice before International Human Rights Bodies: Reflections on the Practice of the UN Human Rights Committee and the European Court of Human Rights’, Access to Justice as a Human Right (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2007)
Marauhn T, Zimmermann A and Scheinin M, ‘The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights’, Making Treaties Work (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2007)
Scheinin M, ‘The Relationship between the Agency and the Network of Independent Experts’, Monitoring Fundamental Rights in the EU: The Contribution of the Fundamental Rights Agency (2005)
Scheinin M, ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Rights under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights’, International Law and Indigenous Peoples (Brill Academic Publishers 2005)
Scheinin M, ‘The Human Rights Committee’s Pronouncements on the Right to an Effective Remedy – an Illustration of the Legal Nature of the Committee’s Work under the Optional Protocol’, Towards Implementing Universal Human Rights (Brill Academic Publishers 2004)
Scheinin M, ‘What are Indigenous Peoples?’, Minorities, Peoples and Self-Determination (Brill Academic Publishers 2004)
Scheinin M, ‘The Human Rights Committee and Freedom of Religion or Belief’, Facilitating Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Deskbook (Brill Academic Publishers 2004)
Scheinin M, ‘Reservations by States under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Its Optional Protocols, and the Practice of the Human Rights Committee’, Reservations to Human Rights Treaties and the Vienna Convention Regime (Springer Nature 2004)
Scheinin M, ‘Capital Punishment and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Some Issues of Interpretation in the Practice of the Human Rights Committee’, Nordic Cosmopolitanism (Brill Academic Publishers 2003)
Scheinin M, ‘State Responsibility, Good Governance and Indivisible Human Rights’, Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library (2002)
Scheinin M, ‘Minority rights: additional rights or added protection?’, Human Rights and Criminal Justice for the Downtrodden (Brill Academic Publishers 2002)
Scheinin M, ‘How to Untie a Tie in the Human Rights Committee’, Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library (2001)
Scheinin M, ‘The Right to Social Security’, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Brill Academic Publishers 2001)
Scheinin M, ‘Domestic implementation of international human rights treaties: Nordic and Baltic experiences’, The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2000)
Scheinin M, ‘Article 20’, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Brill Academic Publishers 1999)
Paulussen C and Scheinin M (eds.), Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism (T.M.C. Asser Press 2020)
Scheinin M, Human rights norms in ’other’ international courts (2019) 1
Scheinin M, International Human Rights Law (Wiley 2016) 439
Scheinin M, Krunke H and Aksenova M (eds.), Judges as Guardians of Constitutionalism and Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing 2016)
Langford M and others, Global justice, state duties: The extraterritorial scope of economic, social and cultural rights in international law (2009) 1
Francioni F and Scheinin M (eds.), Cultural Human Rights (Brilll 2008)
Scheinin M, ‘DEFINING ACTS OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IN TIME OF ARMED CONFLICT: A CRITICAL COMMENT ON ITALIAN CASE LAW’, Italian Yearbook of International Law (2010)
Scheinin M, ‘Book Review: The Reporting Procedure under the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Practice and Procedures of the Human Rights Committee’ (2000) 18(1) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 139 (review)