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Biljana Braithwaite

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Biljana Braithwaite

Legal Consultant 

Biljana leads the AIRE Centre’s Western Balkans Rule of Law Programme. She has over twenty years’ experience developing, funding and delivering more than fifty rule of law projects, ranging from strengthening national judiciaries and other forms of technical assistance, human rights training, legislative reform, and the fight against corruption, often in partnership with local civil society. A lawyer by training with degrees from Belgrade University and Lund University’s Raul Wallenberg Institute, Biljana began her career at the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and has been associated with the AIRE Centre since 1998. She founded and co-edits the professional legal bulletin, Human Rights in Europe,now over 150 editions.  She has also co-edited a series of guides for judges, decision makers and practitioners in South East Europe on freedom of expression, international child protection, and European asylum law.  She is a member of the boards of the AIRE Centre USA and the International Bridges to Justice. 

Published: 5th October, 2018

Updated: 17th April, 2019

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Catharina Harby

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 Catharina Harby 

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Catharina Harby is a Swedish lawyer who has been working with the AIRE Centre as a Legal Consultant since 2000. She runs, together with her colleague Biljana Braithwaite, the AIRE Centre's programme in the Western Balkans. She has lectured on the substantive and procedural aspects of the European Convention on Human Rights throughout Europe and was between 2005 and 2014 a Visiting Lecturer at the International Relations Programme at Regent’s University, London.

Catharina is the co-editor of a number of publications, including “Towards a More Effective National Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights – Guide to Key Convention Principles and Concepts and Their Use in Domestic Courts”, “The Prohibition Against Torture, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment – An overview of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights”, “European Law on Asylum Through Case Law – A Guide for Judges, Decision Makers and Practitioners”, as well as the Legal Bulletin “Human Rights in Europe” which is published three times per year containing articles on topics relevant for the Western Balkans as well as summaries and comments on cases from the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union. In addition, as part of a team of European experts, Catharina has been involved in the drafting of a human rights training manual for professional target groups across the Council of Europe.

Catharina studied law at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, where she obtained a Master of Law and speaks fluent Swedish and English. In 2007 she was short listed for the Peter Duffy Award at the Liberty/Justice Human Rights Awards.


Published: 19th October, 2018

Updated: 1st February, 2019

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