Jernej Letnar Černič

Jernej Letnar Cernic is a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. His research interests are in human rights law, business and human rights, investment law, international criminal law, transitional justice and criminal law. He completed his Ph.D. on Corporate responsibility for fundamental human rights in 2009 at the School of Law, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and his current research projects include: corporate obligations deriving from economic, social and cultural rights; a s tudy on how the memory of crimes committed by totalitarian regimes in Slovenia are dealt with in Slovenia; human rights protection in the Basque country; the application of the European Convention of Human Rights in Central Europe, and a study on regulating money laundering and tax havens. Jernej has worked in the European Ombudsman’s Office, the Superior Court of the Republic of Slovenia, the Law Institute in Ljubljana and the International Criminal Court. He has conducted tutorials and LL.M seminars at the University of Aberdeen and LL.M seminars at the University of Lund. Jernej is fluent in seven languages and he has written a number of articles and research studies in Slovene, English and Swedish on human rights law, international law, European Law and human rights and business. Jernej is a member of the International Human Rights Committee of the International Law Association.

Education

• Bacheor of Science in International Development The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2013.09 — 2018.07)
• PhD in Law University of Aberdeen (2005 — 2009)
• Diplome de droit international et de Droit compare des Droits de l'Homme International Institut Rene Cassin of Human Rights (2005 — 2005)
• LL.M in International Human Rights Law Lund University (2003 — 2005)
• Diploma in Human Rights Law (merit) European University Institute, Academy of European Law (2004 — 2004)
• LL.M in European Law Lund University (2003 — 2004)
• university graduate lawyer University of Ljubljana (1997 — 2002)
• National University of Ireland, Galway
• Hague Academy 2006

Companies

• Professor of Law Faculty of Government and European Studies, New University (2021)
• Associate Professor of Law Nova univerza, Faculty of Government and European Studies (2016 — 2021)
• Senior Research Fellow University Institute of European Studies – IUSE (Turin, Italy) (2014 — 2020)
• Member (alternate) of the Management Board European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2012 — 2017)
• Assistant Professor in Law Graduate School of Government and European Studies (2010 — 2016)
• Member and Co-Rapporteur ILA Human Rights Law Committee (2009 — 2016)
• Steering Committee Member, GLOTHRO project University of Antwerp (2010 — 2014)
• Senior Lawyer and Senior Researcher Institute for European, Constitutional, International Law and Law of Economics (2004 — 2014)
• Visiting Professor and Researcher Universidad de los Andes (2014 — 2014)