Profiles of Speakers
Marko Milanovic
University of Cambridge
Former Associate, Belgrade Centre for Human Rights
Marko Milanovic is currently a PhD Candidate in International Law at the University of Cambridge,
focusing on Extraterritorial application of human rights treaties. His fields of research are Public
International Law; International and Comparative Human Rights Law; International Humanitarian Law;
and International Criminal Law. Previously, Mr Milanovic has worked for Judge Thomas Buergenthal at
the International Court of Justice and as Researcher at the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights. He has
appeared as Counsel before the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Serbia.
Mr Milanovic is widely published in leading legal journals. Recent publications include ‘The Strange
Story of the Bosnian Genocide Case’; ‘An Odd Couple: Domestic Crimes and International Responsibility
in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’; and ‘State Responsibility for Genocide: A Follow-Up.’ Mr
Milanovic has also authored a number of Serbian text books for school children on human rights.
Dominic McGoldrick
Professor of Public International Law
Liverpool Law School
University of Liverpool
Dominic McGoldrick is a specialist in Human Rights Law. In 1999-2000 he was a Fulbright
Distinguished Scholar and Human Rights Fellow at Harvard Law School. He has authored four books:
Human Rights Committee; International Relations Law of the European Union; From 9-11 to the Iraq
War 2003 - International Law In An Age Of Complexity; and Human Rights and Religion - The Islamic
Headscarf Debate in Europe. He was a contributor to and co-editor of The Permanent International
Criminal Court - Legal and Policy Issues (Hart, 2004). Among his recent works are articles on
‘Multiculturalism and its Discontents’; ‘Culture, Cultures and Cultural Rights’; ‘Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law in the UK Courts’; ‘The Bosnian Genocide Case’; and ‘Terrorism and Human Rights
Paradigms’.
Alastair Mowbray
Professor of Public Law
School of Law
University of Nottingham
Alastair Mowbray read law as an undergraduate at the University of Warwick and then undertook fulltime research for a doctorate in public law at the University of Edinburgh. He taught at the Universities of
Edinburgh and Lancaster prior to joining the School of Law at Nottingham as a Lecturer in 1988. He
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subsequently became a Senior Lecturer and then a Professor. His primary research and teaching interests
are in the fields of Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and European Human Rights Law. He has
written and contributed to books published for the academic community, students and legal practitioners;
pieces written by him have appeared in a number of journals including: Public Law; International and
Comparative Law Quarterly; Human Rights Law Review; and Law Quarterly Review. The second edition
of Professor Mowbray’s book on the European Convention on Human Rights was published in 2007.
Egbert Myjer
Judge
European Court of Human Rights
Strasbourg
Judge Myjer was appointed Judge at the European Court of Human Rights in 2004. He is Professor of
human rights at the Free University of Amsterdam and further teaches on the impact of the ECHR on
Dutch Criminal Procedure for members of the Netherlands Bar. Judge Myjer is a member of the board of
the Nieuwsbrief Strafrecht; the Board of the Stichting Strafrechtspraktijk of the Dutch Bar; the Executive
Committee of the International Association of Prosecutors; the Institute of Criminology and Criminal
Justice, Queens University Belfast (Northern Ireland) and a chairman of the Human Rights Forum of the
International Association of Prosecutors. He is also a founding member of the editorial board of the
NJCM-bulletin (Netherlands Human Rights Law Review), mainly writing comments on judgments of the
European Court of Human Rights which are of importance for the Dutch Criminal Procedure.
His publications include ‘Human Rights Manual for Prosecutors’ 2003 (co-authored with Barry Hancock
and Nicolas Cowdery); about 100 comments on admissibility decisions of the European Commission of
Human Rights and the Court of Human Rights, and judgments of the European Court of Human Rights;
and about 30 contributions on the subject of the ECHR in books, conference papers and the like. He was
awarded with the Council of Europe Medal of Merit by the SG of the Council of Europe in 2001.
Sergey Golubok
Lawyer
Registry of the European Court of Human Rights
Having graduated from the University of Essex with an LLM in International Human Rights Law, Mr
Golubok now works as a lawyer at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights. His recent
publications include ‘Judgment of the Russian Constitutional Court on Supervisory Review in Civil
Proceedings: Denial of Justice, Denial of Europe’ (co-authored with Kirill Koroteev) which was published
in the Human Rights Law Review.
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