New Partnership

The Centre for Constitutionalism and Human Rights has been successful in a Charles University-wide call aimed at building strategic partnerships with selected foreign universities. From September 2026, the Centre will therefore begin a collaboration with the University of St Andrews and its Centre for the Critical Reimagining of Human Rights.

The partnership, which will run until November 2027, will focus primarily on developing a joint course, Human Rights and Humanities. The course is intended to be taught at both universities and will offer students an opportunity to explore human rights from the perspectives of different humanities disciplines.

The course will focus in particular on bringing human rights and the humanities together, as well as on experimental, artistic and performative approaches to human rights. Its aim is to explore new ways of studying, interpreting and teaching human rights, while creating space for approaches that extend beyond the traditional legal framework.

The collaboration with the University of St Andrews thus represents an opportunity for sustained international academic exchange, as well as for developing innovative approaches to the teaching and study of human rights.