Institute for Human Rights

The Institute for Human Rights was founded in 1987. It forms part of the Department of Public Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Leuven.
The Institute is in charge of the courses on international human rights law (in Englisch and Dutch) within the law programme. Its teaching is focused on the European Convention of Human Rights and its institutions. The members of the Institute conduct research in a wide range of issues of international human rights law.

The Institute closely collaborates with other Flemish law faculties in the Interuniversitair Centrum Mensenrechten. It organizes a Summer Course on Human Rights together with the Dutch School of Human Rights Research.
The Institute participates also in the thematic network ProHuman, a Project on Humanitarian Development Studies. The European Masters in Human Rights and Democratization is organised within this framework.