Human Rights Lunch Online is a digital seminar series where the profile area members present their latest projects and research. On the 16th of May we get to hear a presentation from Martin Sunnqvist, coordinator for the Advanced Study Group ”Oaths and Courts – from Forum to the Future” at Pufendorf Institute.

Within the ASG ”Oaths and Courts – from Forum to the Future” at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, a group of researchers working within law, history, legal history, theology and languages (Latin and Greek) gather. The independence and impartiality of judges, and the ambition to find the truth through judicial proceedings, have been defined by different types of oaths from Antiquity and onwards. In the ASG we discuss how we can understand these legal oaths today, what they mean and what role they play in finding the truth and for the independence and impartiality of judges. And what do the standards of independence and impartiality mean when AI becomes part of decision-making? During the lunch seminar we will present the results from a workshop “The Right to a Fair Trial – Historical Foundations” arranged by the ASG with support from the profile area.

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