Dr Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg

Dr Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg

Birmingham Law School
Associate Professor
Head of Planning and Strategy

Contact details

Telephone
+44(0)121 415 8662
Email
d.a.gonzalezsalzberg@bham.ac.uk

Damian is an Associate Professor in Law, specialising in International Law and Human Rights. His primary interest is in the use of different theoretical and methodological tools to explore the protection of human rights under international law. His research on the European Court of Human Rights and on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as Harvard Human Rights Journal, American Journal of International Law – Unbound, American University International Law Review, Human Rights Law Review, Modern Law Review, Journal of Law and Society, and Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. 

Damian is the author of Sexuality and Transsexuality under the European Convention on Human Rights (Hart 2019) and the co-editor of Research Methods for International Human Rights Law(Routledge 2019). Damian’s newest book International Law of Human Rights, co-authored with the late Judge A.A. Cançado Trindade (ICJ, IACtHR), is forthcoming in February 2024 with Oxford University Press.  

Qualifications

  • PhD in Law (University of Reading)
  • Diploma in International and Comparative Law of Human Rights (Institut International des Droits de l'Homme)
  • Diploma of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (American University)
  • MA in International Relations (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals)
  • MA in Public Administration and Public Policy (University of York)
  • Attorney-at-Law (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Biography

Damian joined the University 麻豆精选 in January 2020. Prior to this, he was based at the University of Sheffield (from 2014) and at the University of Reading (from 2011). Before moving to the United Kingdom, Damian worked as a lawyer on human rights law in his home country (Argentina) both for a human rights NGO and for a governmental department.

Damian specialises in International Human Rights Law, with a strong interest in the work of international courts and monitoring bodies. Within the last few years his research has focused on both the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. Making use of queer theory, his research has explored the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on sexuality and trans* rights. This research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, American University International Law Review, and Modern Law Review, as well as in his 2019 monograph Sexuality and Transsexuality under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Damian has conducted research on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for over ten years. This research has benefited from the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore different areas of the Court鈥檚 work, such as the examination of preliminary objections (Human Rights Law Review) and the compliance with reparations (International Law: Revista Colombiana de Derecho Internacional and Sur 鈥� International Journal on Human Rights), while his ongoing research focuses on the Court鈥檚 method to quantify compensation following a violation of human rights.

Teaching

  • International Human Rights Law (LLB) – Module Leader
  • European Human Rights Law (LLM) – Module Leader

Postgraduate supervision

Damian is keen to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:

International and Regional Protection of Human Rights
The work of international courts
Human Rights Research Methods
LGBTQI Rights
Feminist and Queer Legal Theories

Research

  • International and Regional Protection of Human Rights
  • The work of international courts
  • Human Rights Research Methods
  • LGBTQI Rights
  • Feminist and Queer Legal Theories

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Can莽ado Trindade, AA & Gonzalez Salzberg, D 2024, . Oxford University Press. <>

Gonzalez Salzberg, D & Hodson, L 2019, .

Gonzalez Salzberg, D 2019, . 1st edn, Hart Publishing.

Article

Gonzalez-salzberg, DA 2022, '', AJIL Unbound, vol. 116, pp. 5-9.

Gonzalez Salzberg, D & Perisanidi, M 2021, '', Journal of Law and Society, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 669-689.

Gonzalez Salzberg, D 2021, '', Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 1-36. <>

Gonzalez Salzberg, D & Hodson, L 2019, '', Revista do Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos, vol. 19, pp. 107-124. <>

Gonzalez Salzberg, DA 2018, '', Modern Law Review, vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 526-538.

Gonzalez-Salzberg, D & Zavala Guillen, A 2017, '', Revista Argentina de Teor铆a Jur铆dica, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-19. <>

Gonzalez Salzberg, DA 2015, '', Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 173-186. <>

Gonzalez-Salzberg, DA 2014, '', Revista do Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos, vol. 13, pp. 1-27.

Gonzalez-Salzberg, DA 2014, '', American University International Law Review, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 797-829.

Chapter

Gonzalez Salzberg, D 2019, . in Research Methods for International Human Rights Law: Beyond the Traditional Paradigm.

Gonzalez Salzberg, D, Hodson, L & Johnson, P 2019, . in Feminist Judgments in International Law.

Gonzalez Salzberg, D 2017, . in Law and Policy in Latin America: Transforming Courts, Institutions, and Rights.

Expertise

  • International Human Rights Law
  • The work of international courts
  • LGBTQI rights

Expertise

Damian’s expertise lies in the area of international human rights law. Within this field, he has worked for and collaborated with human rights NGOs, think tanks, and Governmental agencies.