CGPL has joined the “Domestic Impact of the UN Human Rights Treaty System” study led by Prof. Christof Heyns and Prof. Frans Viljoen of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria in collaboration with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights as a collaborating institution.

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Center for Global Public Law at Koc University and the Human Right Centre of the University of Essex are very pleased to publish an Annotated Compilation of Case Law surveying the effects of international human rights law on other branches of public international law alongside a bibliography focusing on the relationship between human rights and international law. The Annotated Compilation of Case Law surveys the effects of international human rights law as fundamental principles, as a list of rights and as a source of interpretive doctrines in fifty cases spanning across five core branches of public international law: international investment law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international trade law and international environmental law.

On 21 September 2018, a group of leading academic centres in Europe, including the Centre for Global Public Law (Koç University), is co-organising a workshop at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The workshop is entitled:

The Center for Global Public Law at Koç University Law School is glad to issued a call for papers for a workshop on "Türkiye and International Law: History, Present and Future.

On Friday 18 August 2017, the Center for Global Public Law attended the Istanbul Consultation on the 2020 Review of the United Nations (UN) Treaty Body System – Strengthening the UN Treaty Body System. Columbia University invited experts from academia, civil society, and persons with experience working in the UN and regional human rights systems to participate in the Istanbul consultation. This consultation took place over one day at the Columbia Global Center in Istanbul. The main agenda item involved assessing the role of the UN Treaty Bodies in the wider ecosystem of international and regional human rights mechanisms, and how this might vary in different institutional settings.