Workshop on human rights and neurotechnologies

 18 November 2025 Strasbourg, France

 

 Programme

Lunch break (13:00 - 14:30)

 Documents

 Context

This workshop will explore whether and how human rights law in its current form can serve as an effective legal framework to address the challenges arising from the increasing use and development of neurotechnologies.

 Recordings

Morning

Afternoon

 Speakers & Moderators

Speakers and moderators are being confirmed progressively, with updates shared on this webpage as they become available.

Back Anna Austin

Jurist Consult of the European Court of Human Rights
Anna Austin

Anna Austin qualified as a Solicitor (Law Society of Ireland) in 1991. Having worked for 6 years with A&L Goodbody in Dublin, she joined the European Commission for Human rights in 1994 and, subsequently, the European Court of Human Rights in 1998. She worked as a Head of Division in the Registry of the Court for 10 years. She was appointed to act as the Court’s Deputy Jurisconsult in 2015 and as the Court’s Jurisconsult in 2020, a position she holds to date. 

She has also been seconded from those institutions on a number of occasions. She was the Deputy Ombudsperson for Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997. She headed the Office of the Investigating Judges of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia 2008-2009. Anna Austin was the human rights advisor of the Secretariat of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 2014-2015. In 2013-2015, she acted as the Legal Advisor of the International Advisory Panel on Ukraine (Maidan).

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