2025 Liberty Lecture: Climate Change and Human Rights Law

The 2025 Liberty Lecture will be given by Ioannis Ktistakis, a Judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (2021-) and President of its Third Section (2024-). The topic of the lecture will be climate change and human rights law. An abstract is forthcoming. 

Prior to that, he was an associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Democritus University of Thrace [Komotini-Greece], assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University [Istanbul-Turkey] and visiting Professor at Faculty of Law, George Washington University [Washington DC - USA].

Former memberships included the Executive Board of European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, the Greek Equal Treatment Committee and the Greek National Commission for Human Rights.

He has over 61 publications on issues related to public international law, immigration law, environmental law and religious freedom.