Renate Weber - Articles, Studies, Books

Articles, Studies, Books

Renate Weber has over 50 published studies and articles on human rights, the rights of national minorities, constitutional law, the European Convention on Human Rights and fighting discrimination. Here are several examples:

• Synthesis of the national situation in Romania (anti-discrimination report produced for the European Commission, 2006)
• The Kin-State and Its Minorities: Which European Standards? The Hungarian Status- Law : Its Antecedents and Consequences, in The Hungarian Status Law: Nation Building and/or Minority Protection, Zoltan Kantor and others eds., Slavic Eurasian Studies, Vol. 4, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 2004

• “Non-Discrimination Review” – project undertaken by the Council of Europe, addressing non-discrimination issues within the Central and South East Europe – member of the three country group expert team 2002-2003

• “Report on Measures to Combat Discrimination in the 13 candidate countries “– project undertaken by MEDE European Consultancy in partnership with Migration Policy Group – country report on Romania, 2003

• “Concept paper on Combating Discrimination in Romania. An Inventory of Problems on Legislation and Institutional Mechanisms for Combating Discrimination” - a follow up project within the Non Discrimination Review project of the Council of Europe, 2003

• “The Romanian Constitutional Court: In Search of its Own Identity“ in Sadurski Wojciech ed. Constitutional Justice, East and West – Democratic Legitimacy and Constitutional Courts in Post-Communist Europe in A Comparative Perspective, Kluwer Law International, The Hague-London-New York, 2002

• “The Impact of the European Convention of Human Rights upon the Rule of Law in Romania”, Blackburn and Polakiewicz (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2002

• Research on “National and European Legislation to Combat Racism”, project undertaken by Migration Policy Group, Interrights and European Roma Rights Center, report on Romania, 2001

• “The Effect of the on the Legal and Political System of Member States: Romania”, in Prof. Robert Blackburn and Dr. Jorg Polakiewicz eds. Fundamental Rights in Europe – The European Convention on Human Rights and its Member States, 1950–2000, Oxford University Press, 2001

• “Constitutionalism as a Vehicle for Democratic Consolidation in Romania”, in Jan Zielonka ed. Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe, Oxford University Press, 2001

• “Police Organization and Accountability: A Comparative Study”, in Andras Kadar ed. Police in Transition, Central European University Press, 2001
• Women 2000 – An Investigation into the Status of Women’s Rights in Central and South-Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States, editor, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, Vienna, 2000

• “Transylvania: evolution through devolution?” in The Transilvanian Problem (Problema transilvana), Polirom, Iasi, 1999

• “The Romanian-Hungarian Relations within the Legal Frame of the Schengen Agreements, in the review International Studies”, Centre for International Studies, Bucharest, 1999 (published also in Hungarian, in Europai Szemmel, Budapest, 1999);

• “The Moldavian Csango”, (in co-operation), International Foundation for Promoting Studies and Knowledge of Minority Rights, Budapest, 1998

• “The Protection of National Minorities in Romania: a Matter of Political Will and Wisdom”, in Law and Practice of Central European Countries in the Field of National Minorities Protection, Institute for International Affairs, Warsaw, 1997;

• “Three minorities and their claims: the Hungarian from Romania, the Romanian from Ukraine and the Gagauz from Moldova”, in Altera, no.6/1997;

• “Self-determination”, study prepared with the Bucharest Centre for Human Rights for the Committee on Political Affairs of the Council of Europe, 1996;

• “Romania and International Human Rights” - chapter for the Romanian version of Thomas Buergenthal’s book International Human Rights - in a nutshell, All, Bucharest, 1996;

• “Evolutions in the D.A.H.R. Conception on Hungarian Minority Rights” (in co-operation), Centre for Human Rights, Bucharest, 1996;

• “The White Paper on Access to Information in Romania” (in co-operation), Centre for Human Rights, Bucharest, 1996;

• “The Welfare State in Post-Communist Countries: The Romanian Case”, in Re-conceptualizing the Welfare State, the Danish Center for Human Rights, ed. Copenhagen, 1996

• “Romania’s Relations with the Republic of Moldova” (in co-operation), in the review International Studies, Centre for International Studies, Bucharest, 1995;

• “Nationalism and its Impact upon Rule of Law in Romania” (in co-operation), in the review International Studies, Bucharest, 1995;

• “Study on the Conception of Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania on the Rights of National Minorities” (in co-operation), Centre for Human Rights, Bucharest, 1994;

• “Two draft laws on the protection of minorities” (in co-operation), in Legislation in transition, Bucharest, 1994

Other articles/papers on the Romanian legal system, the implementation of international human rights/minority rights legislation by the Romanian Courts and the human rights/minority rights situation in Romania.