The Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will co-host a workshop 'In the Name of National Security: The Fragility of Human Rights' at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales in Madrid on 3 July 2025.
Keynotes will be presented by Professor Iain Cameron and Professor Ana María Salinas de Frías. The workshop is held in conjunction with the European Human Rights Law Review and it is intended that a selection of papers from the workshop will be included in a Special Issue of the journal in 2026.
Additional support for the event is generously provided by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Confinanciado por la Unión Europea.
The organisers welcome abstracts on any topic within the theme, including the following non-exhaustive list of topics:
- Citizenship deprivation
- Border control
- Detention and liberty
- Official secrets and classified information
- Whistleblowers
- Terrorism
- Military operations
- Security services
- Surveillance
- Access to justice, closed material proceedings, special advocates
- Foreign influence or interference
- Extraterritorial jurisdiction
- Derogation
To propose a paper, please submit an abstract of 250-500 words by 25 April 2025.
All who submit will be notified as to whether their papers have been accepted by no later than 30 April 2025.
Full papers are to be submitted by 26 June 2025, namely one week in advance of the workshop. Papers may be between 5,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of footnotes).
Please direct any queries you might have about this event to either Professor Susana Sánchez Ferro (UAM) (susana.ferro@uam.es) or Dr Kirsty Hughes (Cambridge) (kh391@cam.ac.uk).
Grant PID2021-123563NB-I00, funded by MICIU/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF/EU”