COT Alumnus nominated for York Prize

Thursday 1 July 2010

COT alumnus Dr Anton Burkov has been nominated for the prestigious York Prize, awarded annually by the University of Cambridge, for his recently published book Convention for the Protection of Human Rights in Russian Courts.

Dr Burkov, scholar and jurist, has worked for more than twelve years as a staff attorney and project coordinator for the Ural Centre for Constitutional and International Protection of Human Rights of the NGO Sutyajnik, as well as having recently completed his doctoral thesis here in Cambridge.

Described as "provocative" by European Court of Human Rights Judge Anatoliy Kovler who wrote the foreword, the book is a publication of Dr Burkov’s PhD thesis, and speaks about the true spirit of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which ensures the protection of the rights and freedoms by their own national judiciary systems of all citizens of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.

This book is in Russian and is available at:

www.wolters-kluwer.ru/catalogue/34373.html

It will be available in English later this year.