Dr. LL.M. Manfred NOWAK Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Vienna; Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights, Vienna; Former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, Vienna
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since 1973 | Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Constitutional Law, International Law and Human Rights, Law School, University of Vienna |
1987-1989 | Director, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht University |
1989-2001 | Professor of Law, Austrian Academy of Public Administration, Vienna |
1996-2003 | Judge, Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo |
1993-2006 | United Nation Expert on Enforced Disappearances, Geneva |
2004-2010 | United Nation Special Rapporteur on Torture, Geneva |
since 2012 | Vice-Chair of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency, Vienna |
Visiting Professor at the Universities of Lund, Sweden (2002, 2003), Venice (2004), Geneva (2008, 2009), Stanford (2014) |
Mitgliedschaften
Founder and Co-Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna, since 1992 | |
International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, since 1995 | |
Vice-President of the Austrian United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization-Commission, since 2010 | |
Scientific Director, Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights, since 2012 | |
OMV Advisory Board for Resourcefulness, Vienna, since 2012 | |
Director of the Research Centre Human Rights, University of Vienna, since 2014 |
Publikationen
All Human Rights for All - Vienna Manual on Human Rights, Vienna 2012 | |
UN Convention against Torture - CAT Commentary, Oxford, 2008 | |
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - CCPR-Commentary, Kehl/Strasbourg/Arlingon, 2nd ed. 2005 | |
Introduction to the International Human Rights Regime, Leiden/Boston, 2003 |
Auszeichnungen
UNESCO Prize for the Teaching of Human Rights, 1995 | |
Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award, 2007 | |
Human Rights Award of the Unversity of Oslo, 2013 | |
Otto Hahn Friedensmedaille in Gold Berlin, 2014 |