26.10.2010 Polish lawyers submitted an expert opinion written by Professor Andreas Fischer-Lescano on request by ECCHR to the Polish Supreme Court. In the expert opinion, Professor Fischer-Lescano (University of Bremen and Director of the Centre of European Laws and Politics) analyzes the question of exceptions to state immunity before foreign courts in the case of serious human rights violations.

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ECCHR submitted in February 2010 an expert opinion on concurrent criminal jurisdictions under international law in a Spanish case. The opinion was written by ECCHR and its advisory board member Professor Dr. Florian Jeßberger. Spanish courts argued they were not competent to open investigations into international crimes committed in Gaza, because investigations were already opened by local authorities.

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