Here is a list of ideas for PhD theses that may stimulate reflection by potential students who have not yet identified a topic of field of research
- Racism in sport
- or, possibly, other topics related to sport and human rights
- Protection of witnesses at international criminal tribunals
- in particular, there is a practice of relocating witnesses about which almost nothing is known
- international trials are often like organised crime trials, with a decisive role being played by 'protected witnesses'
- The Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly
- The Amicus Curiae
- Practice of High Commissioner for Human Rights
- International Criminal Tribunals
- European Court of Human Rights
- Quantitative measurement of human rights violations
- How do we determine how many people were killed in a massacr
- Scientific technique
- Misrepresentatio
- Advocacy concerns etc.
- Non-member states of the United Nations and the protection of international human rights law
- The ‘Uniting for Peace’ Resolution as a mechanism to protect human rights
- Terminology in human rights law (e.g., Déclaration des droits de l’homme, etc.)
- Justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights
- Examine relevant case law in national jurisdictions
- International jurisprudence involving ESCR
- Documents of the UN War Crimes Commission
- study the UN War Crimes Commission through archives, memoires etc.
- Special advisor on the Prevention of Genocide
- Commissioner for human rights of Council of Europe
- Comparison of Rules of Procedure and Evidence at international tribunals
- Study of deaths in armed conflict
- Totals, over the century
- Are more dying or fewer?
- Substantive criminal justice and human rights norms
- What do human rights norms say about the content of crimes
- Can a criminal justice system punish any crime (sodomy, adultery, abortion) without violating human right
- Are there obligations to punish certain crimes
- Lis pendens and international human rights bodies (same or similar case treated by two or more bodies)
- Evidence in international human rights law
- What is ‘a national’; nationality in international human rights law, etc. (ICL)
- Grey zones in international human rights law (Taiwan, Northern Cyprus, Kosovo, Occupied Territories
- Who can ratify the ICC Statute?
- Who can ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights?
- Mandate of any of the Special rapporteurs
- ‘Good offices’ and Human Rights
- Research based on travaux preparatoires of the ICC Statute
- Examination of the participation of a delegation, or group of delegations
- USA? EU? Ireland?
- Work of the Venice Commission in development of human rights law
- Ex gratia payments to war victims
- Study on Migrant Workers Convention
- Study of draft Convention on Enforced Disappearance
- The dead in international human rights law
- Preambles of human rights treaties