The Legitimacy of Family Rights in Strasbourg Case Law: ?Living Instrument? or Extinguished Sovereignty?

Dr Carmen Draghici is Senior Lecturer in Law at City, University London's Law School, where she joined in 2009. She teaches Human Rights Law and Family and Child Law at undergraduate/ graduate-entry level, and she acts as Deputy Director and Admissions Tutor for the undergraduate programme. She is also a member of the London-based Centre for Child and Family Law Reform (since 2010). Dr. Draghici holds a PhD degree in 'International Law and Human Rights' from the University of Rome 'Sapienza' (awarded in 2007). She was formerly a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program (2015), a Visiting Research Scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (2012), a Leverhulme Visiting Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, University of East London (2008), and a Visiting Professor in Public International Law at the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona (2009-2014). Her main research interests concern the judicial interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights and the responsibility of States and international organisations for breaches of human-rights obligations; her work has focused in particular on the right to respect for private and family life, freedom of expression, and the protection of civil liberties in the context of counter-terrorism. Her publications include several articles and chapters published in UK, US and European journals and edited collections and a book titled The Legitimacy of Family Rights in Strasbourg Case Law: 'Living Instrument' or Extinguished Sovereignty? (Hart Publishing, 2016, forthcoming).