Human Rights and their Limits

'… provide[s] an interesting contribution to one of the major debates occurring in human rights scholarship at the present time. This is the changing role of history in human rights scholarship.' Cambridge Law Journal

'… provide[s] an interesting contribution to one of the major debates occurring in human rights scholarship at the present time. This is the changing role of history in human rights scholarship.' Cambridge Law Journal

Wiktor Osiatyński is a professor at the Central European University, where he teaches at the CEU Legal Program in Budapest. He is a former co-director of the Center for the Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe at the Chicago Law School and an advisor to a number of constitutional committees of Poland's parliament. The author of more than twenty books, Osiatyński is a member of the board of the Open Society Institute Budapest and of the board of the OSI Justice Initiative as well as of a Human Rights and Governance Grant Program at the OSI. In 2007, he cofounded the Women's Party in Poland.