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PERSONAL DATA

Born in Völs am Schlern, Italy, 12 October 1975

 

EDUCATION

2000 – 2007
Doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz (Austria).
Doctoral thesis: "Soft jurisprudence im Minderheitenrecht: Standardsetzung und Konfliktbearbeitung durch Kontrollmechanismen bi- und multilateraler Instrumente" (Soft jurisprudence and the rights of minorities: standard setting and conflict regulation through bi- and multilateral instruments)
Supervisors: Prof. Joseph Marko (Graz) and Prof. Rainer Hofmann (Frankfurt)

1994 – 2000
Law studies at the Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Degree thesis: „Der Minderheitenschutz im europäischen Recht mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Art. 13 EG-Vertrag." (Protection of Minorities in European Law, with special reference to Art. 13 TEC.)

spring term 1997 - Erasmus-Student at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

1994 - High school degree at the Institute for Modern Languages Meran/Merano (Italy)  grade: 56/60

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

September 2007 –
Researcher at the Competence Centre for South Eastern Europe at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz
Main responsibilities:

  • Establishment of a Joint PhD Programms in "Diversity Management and Governance", in cooperation with the Universities of Primorska (Slovenia), Bologna (Italy) and the New Bulgarian University in Sofia (Bulgaria);
  • Cooperation in various projects dealing with the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

January 2000 –
Researcher at the European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC)
Main responsibilities:

  • Coordinator of the Masters programme in European Integration and Regionalism 
  • Co-managing editor of the European Yearbook of Minority Issues, published with Brill Academic Publishers, in co-operation with the European Centre of Minority Issues (ECMI, Flensburg)
  • responsible for the project: Minority Protection through Bilateral Agreements
  • Co-managing editor of the online series "European Diversity and Autonomy Papers", published by the Institute for Minority Rights at EURAC (www.eurac.edu/edap);
  • Cooperation in other projects, amongst others the publication of the "Review of Central and East European Law"

April – June 2001
Internship at the Council of Europe – Directorate General of Human Rights, Minorities Unit, Strasbourg (France)
working on minority protection through bilateral agreements

March – June 1997
Internship at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium)

June – August 1997
Administrative assistance and translation (French-German) at the Real Estate Agency CETIM, Brussels (Belgium)

October 1994 – July 1995
Administrative assistance in the Law firm Egger & Partner, Bozen/Bolzano (Italy)

 

PUBLICATIONS

"Siamo in crisi. Werden die Neuwahlen etwas an Italiens Unregierbarkeit ändern?", Steirisches Jahrbuch für Politik (2008 forthcoming)

"Emerging European Standards of Minority Protection through Soft Jurisprudence?", in Joseph Marko (ed.), European Integration and its Effects on Minority Protection in South Eastern Europe (Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2008 forthcoming)

with Giovanni Poggeschi, "Census, Declaration of Belonging to a Linguistic Group, and Quota System", in Joseph Marko, Francesco Palermo und Jens Woelk (Hrsg.), Tolerance Established by Law. Self-Government and Group Rights: The Autonomy of South Tyrol (Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, 2007), 219-233

"History of the South Tyrol Conflict and its Settlement", in Joseph Marko, Francesco Palermo und Jens Woelk (Hrsg.), Tolerance Established by Law. Self-Government and Group Rights: The Autonomy of South Tyrol (Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, 2007), 3-15

"Emerging Standards through Soft Law", pubslished in the framework of the research project NODE Research "New Orientations for Democracy in Europe", 2005 (at  www.uni-graz.at/suedosteuropa/media/NODE/Lantschner.pdf)

"Ein kurzer Überblick über die Geschichte Südtirols", in J. Marko, S. Ortino, F. Palermo, Jens Woelk und Leonhard Voltmer (eds.), Die Verfassung der Südtiroler Autonomie (Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2005), 25-37

"Bilateral agreements and their implementation", in Alexander Morawa (ed.), Mechanisms for the Implementation of Minority Rights, (Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg, 2004), 203-224

Joint Commissions and the Implementation of Bilateral Agreements in the Field of Minorities, together with Sergiu Constantin, (Council of Europe, Strasbourg, December 2003), at www.coe.int/minorities

"Protection of National Minorities through Bilateral Agreements in South Eastern Europe", 2 European Yearbook of Minority Issues (2002/3), 579-603

"Bilateral approach to the protection of kin-minorities", together with Roberta Medda-Windischer, in European Commission for Democracy through Law (ed.), The protection of national minorities by their kin-state, (Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg, 2002), 107-133

"Protection of National Minorities through Bilateral Agreements in South Eastern Europe", together with Roberta Medda-Windischer, 1 European Yearbook of Minority Issues (2001/2), 535-564

"Protection of National Minorities through Bilateral Agreements in South-Eastern Europe", Draft Report prepared by the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano, prepared by Emma Lantschner and Roberta Medda under the supervision of Prof. Joseph Marko for the 8th Meeting of Government Offices for National Minorities, Strasbourg, 21-22 May 2001, at www.coe.int/minorities
 
"Breve sintesi della storia dell'Alto Adige", in Joseph Marko, Sergio Ortino e Francesco Palermo (cur.), L'ordinamento speciale della Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, (Cedam, Verona, 2001), 14-33.

 

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS

"State Responsibility and Minority Protection" (June 2006)

with Marianne Pasterk, "Politische Repräsentation von Minderheiten und Frauen" (January 2005)

"Der Einfluss von Wahlrecht auf die Vertretung von Minderheiten" (October 2004)

"Ethnische Konflikte in Europa: Der Fall Zypern und der Versuch einer föderalen Lösung" (October 2003)

"Protection of National Minorities through their Kin-State" (April 2003)

 

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES

Expert Seminar on the Recommendations on State Responsibility and National Minorities Abroad (OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities)
The Hague, 11 April 2008
Expert

Workshop "Democratizing Minority Governance" (European Centre for Minority Issues, ECMI)
Flensburg, 7 December 2007
Presentation: The Commission of Six within the Autonomous System of South Tyrol

Round-table on Education for the Turkish Community (OSCE Mission in Kosovo; Ministry of Education, Science and Technology; UNMIK Department of Civil Administration; UNICEF)
Prizren, 23 October 2007
Presentation: Curriculum and textbooks

Project relating to the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in Kosovo (Office of the Prime Minister, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, CoE)
Pristina, 10-11 October 2007
Training on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
Workshop with representatives from civil society and from the Human Rights Units of PISG Ministries on the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in Kosovo

Seminar: Participation of Persons Belonging to National Minorities in Cultural, Social, Economic Life and in Public Affairs. Consultation seminar on the first draft of the Commentary on minority participation by the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (Council of Europe)
Bozen, 2-3 October 2007
Chair of the Workshop: Participation of Persons Belonging to National Minorities in Public Affairs

Master in European Integration and Regionalism (University of Graz, EURAC und EIPA)
Bozen, 14 September 2007
Lecture: International Law of Human and Minority Rights. Theory and Practice

Master in European Integration and Regionalism (University of Graz, EURAC und EIPA)
Bozen, 15 June 2007
Lecture: The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities;
Role play: The Work of the Advisory Committee

Project relating to the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in Kosovo (Office of the Prime Minister, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, CoE)
Pristina, 28 May - 14 June 2007
Series of workshops with the Human Rights Units of PISG Ministries

UniDem Seminar of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (in cooperation with the Universities of Graz and Trieste)
Graz, 12 July 2006
Lecture: Cross-border Co-operation as an Instrument for Conflict Resolution? The Example of Tyrol – South Tyrol – Trentino

Master in European Integration and Regionalism (University of Graz, EURAC and EIPA)
Bozen, 16 June 2006
Lecture: The Council of Europe Instruments for the Protection of Minorities: The Framework Convention for the Protection of Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages;
Role play: The Work of the Advisory Committee

Scientific Reunion on Regionalism and Models of Autonomy in Europe (Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina)
Novi Sad (Serbia), 22-23 May 2006
Lecture: South Tyrol – Legal and institutional aspects

CoDe - Joint European Master in Comparative Local Development for the Balkans and other Areas in Transformation (University of Trento, Corvinus University of Budapest, University of Ljubljana, University of Regensburg)
Trento, 11 April 2006
Lecture: The Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) and Roma

International Conference on the Participation of National Minorities in Public Life: The Role of Consultative Bodies (Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Council of Europe)
Brasov (Rumania), 7 March 2006
Rapporteur of the workshop: Status, Mandate, Function

International Conference: European Integration and its Effects on Minority Protection in the Western Balkan Countries (University of Graz)
Graz, 24-25 February 2006
Lecture: Standard Setting by the Advisory Committee under the FCNM

National Dialogue on Peace and Devolution of Power in Sri Lanka (Association for Conflict Prevention, Democracy and Human Rights; and Institute for External Relations)
Badulla (10-11 December 2005), Anuradhnaphura (17-18 December 2005) (Sri Lanka)
Lectures: European Experience of Power Sharing

Atlante Project: Education to human rights in the age of globalisation (financed by the European Commission, DG Education and Culture)
Venice, 24 November 2005
Lecture and Workshop: Minority Rights. An Integration that Works: The Example of Alto-Adige – Südtirol

Master in European Integration and Regionalism (University of Graz, EURAC, EIPA)
Bolzano, 6 September 2005
Lecture: South Tyrol. Legal and Institutional Aspects

Master on Local Development for the Balkans (University of Trento)
Trento, 29 April 2005
Lecture: Minority Protection through Bilateral Agreements

Workshop "European Integration and its Effects on Minority Protection" (University of Graz)
Graz (Austria), 20-23 January 2005
Presentation of the paper: "Emerging European standards of minority protection through soft jurisprudence"

Master in European Integration and Regionalism (University of Graz, EURAC, EIPA)
Bolzano, 8 September 2004
Lecture: South Tyrol. Legal and Institutional Aspects

Catholic Relief Services/Croatia (CRS)
Slavonski Brod (Croatia), 28-29 June 2004
Training on "Political Participation of National Minorities"

Master on Local Development for the Balkans (University of Trento)
Trento, 12 May 2004
Lecture: Minority Protection through Bilateral Agreements

Seminar on Kin-State Involvement in Minority Protection: Lessons Learned (Association for International Law and International Relations)
Bucharest, 12 February 2004
Launching of the publication on Joint Commissions and the Implementation of Bilateral Agreements in the Field of Minorities

Master on Local Development for the Balkans (University of Trento)
Bolzano, 10 May 2003
Lecture: Minority Protection through Bilateral Agreements

The Civil Society Dialogue on Intercultural Co-operation in Cyprus (EURAC)
Pyla (Cyprus), 12 April 2003
Lecture: Protection of National Minorities through their Kin-state

Meeting of Representatives of Joint Commissions on "Joint Commissions and the Implementation of Bilateral Agreements in the Field of Minorities" - Stability Pact Project concerning Minorities (Council of Europe/Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/EURAC)
Poiana Brasov (Romania), 18-19 November 2002

International Colloquy on Protection of National Minorities by their Kin-State (Venice Commission)
Athens, 7-8 June 2002
Intervention: Bilateral approach to protection of kin- minorities.

Exploratory meeting on the issue of Roma in Bilateral Treaties (Council of Europe)
Strasbourg, 18-19 February 2002
Rapporteur of the working group: How might bilateral agreements best extend protection to Roma/Gypsies (and other minorities without a kin-state)

OSCE Conference on Equal opportunities for Roma & Sinti. Translating words into facts.
Bucharest, 10-13 September 2001
Invited as expert on Roma and bilateral agreements by the Council of Europe

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

German – mother tongue
Italian – excellent
English – excellent
French – fluent
Spanish – good
Croatian – beginner

 

 

 


 
 
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