Prosecution of racially motivated hate crimes against the Roma in Eastern Europe—the region’s largest ethnic minority—is systematically hindered. Yet, members of the Roma community have themselves been charged with hate crimes, resulting from violent conflicts with the majority population and racist hate groups. Professor Pap will show how inconsistent approaches on the part of international organizations and the intrinsically ambiguous legal nature of conceptualizing identity result in unfavourable conditions for members of ethno-racial minorities in the region.

András L. Pap is Research Chair and Head of Department for the Study of Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies. He is an Associate Professor at Eötvös University (ELTE) Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Philosophy. He is also a member of the Law Enforcement Faculty of the National Public Administration University and a Recurrent Visiting Professor at Central European University’s Nationalism Studies Program in Hungary.

Presented by the International Human Rights Clinic.

Lunch will be served.