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Dr Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou

Lecturer in Law

Qualifications: Diploma in Law (Distinction) Gomel State University (Belarus), MA (Merit) Sussex, PhD UCD

Email:
Phone: Work: 01483 68 6333
Room no: 32 AP 02

Office hours

Tuesday 2-4 pm

Thursday 2-4 pm

Further information

Biography

Kanstantsin read for his undergraduate law degree in Belarus. After graduation he worked as a lecturer in law at the Gomel State University for two years. Then he took a MA in European Studies from the University of Sussex. After graduation he worked as a legal adviser with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Poland. In 2007 Kanstantsin began working on his PhD project in UCD (Dublin, Ireland). In 2011 he successfully defended his PhD. Kanstantsin is a visiting lecturer at the European Humanities University (Lithuania), he also cooperates with international NGOs as an expert in international and European human rights law.

Research Interests

International human rights law, administration of international justice, public law, jurisprudence.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Dzehtsiarou K, Lukashevich V. (2012) 'Informed Decision-Making: The Comparative Endeavours of the Strasbourg Court'. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights,
    [ Status: Accepted ]
  • Dzehtsiarou K. (2012) 'Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR Justice, Politics and Rights. Buyse, A and Hamilton M. eds.'. Human Rights Law Review,
    [ Status: Accepted ]
  • Dzehtsiarou K. (2011) 'European Consensus and the Evolutive Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights'. German Law Journal, 12 (10), pp. 1730-1745.
  • Dzehtsiarou K, Greene A. (2011) 'Legitimacy and the Future of the European Court of Human Rights: Critical Perspectives from Academia and Practitioners'. German Law Journal, 12 (10), pp. 1707-1715.
  • Dzehtsiarou K. (2011) 'Does Consensus Matter? Legitimacy of European Consensus in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights'. Public Law, UK: , pp. 534-553.
  • Dzehtsiarou K. (2010) 'Comparative Law in the Reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights'. University College Dublin UCD Law Review, 2010 (10), pp. 109-140.
    doi: 10.2139/ssrn.1703120
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/186004/
  • Dzehtsiarou K. (2010) 'Civilising Globalisation. Human Rights and the Global Economy. By David Kinley, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-71624-6, 256 pp.'. Journal of International Economic Law, 13 (2), pp. 521-524.
    doi: 10.1093/jiel/jgq017

Departmental Duties

Please contact Kanstantsin if you wish to publish a working paper with the Surrey Law Working Paper Series.

Affiliations

Kanstantsin is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars, Irish Society of International Law.