Academic staff
During the Program, class will be given by professors and jurists with recognized trajectory in the research and in the praxis of human rights. Students will be able to engage in conversations and generate debates that will be enriching and educational.
Programme teachers
Prof. Dr. Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor
Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
"It is difficult to think of economic and political integration without the fundamental pillar of respect for human rights. The Inter-American Court has been decisive in strengthening the rule of law and democracy in the region. The standards developed by the Court throughout its history are a beacon to confront complex issues such as forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, torture, limitations to military jurisdiction, the death penalty, due process, judicial protection, freedom of thought and expression".
Prof. Dr. Amaya Úbeda
Lawyer at committee of Europe
"The European System of Human Rights Protection is the oldest and most sophisticated. Its achievements have served as an impetus for similar developments in many other parts of the world. Today, however, it is facing what many call an "unprecedented crisis". Throughout the lectures we will work on the history, the present and the future of the European System".
Prof. Dr. María Carmelina Londoño
Professor of International Law at Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia).
"This course seeks to familiarize students with the mechanisms available to the United Nations to protect Human Rights as well as their objectives, operation and significant doctrinal developments. Through a methodology of comparative analysis with regional systems, the student will obtain an overview both academically and internship for the international defense of the human being."
Prof. Mag. Pablo Saavedra
Registrar of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
"The Inter-American Human Rights System is in a stage of consolidation and, although it may seem paradoxical at first glance, of change. The IPHR classes will allow us to learn about its functioning, its achievements, and also the challenges it faces.
Prof. Dr. Ángel José Gómez Montoro
University of Navarra
"Constitutional democracies are the fruit of a delicate balance in which fundamental rights are a very important element, but not the only one. Rights must be understood as a limit of the constituent power to the constituted powers (including the Constitutional Courts themselves) and must be complemented with the functional division of power and the democratic principle, which gives Parliament the leading role in everything that the Constitution does not decide, including the development of the same rights".
Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Villalta
Full Professor from International Public Law at the University of Navarra
"I invite legal and moral reflection on the interrelationship between the violation of human rights and the suspension of free trade in state-to-state diplomacy. It highlights the European Union's insistence on the inclusion of essential elements clauses in its trade agreements as a measure to protect human rights in the countries with which it agrees. I aspire to promote critical and transcendental thinking on the problems of economic globalisation and the discernment of the common good at internship of International Office."
Programme management
Juan Cianciardo
Director of Master's Degree of Human Rights of the University of Navarra
Jorge Machín
coordinator of the Programme