Professor Douwe Korff
Douwe Korff has been professor of international law at London Metropolitan University since 2002. He is a Dutch comparative and international lawyer, specialising in human rights and data protection. In the 1970s, he graduated from the Free University in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and was researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In the 1980s, he carried out human rights research at the Max Planck Institutes for comparative and international criminal law and for comparative and international public law in Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg, Germany. In the ’90s, he taught international law and human rights at the University of Limburg in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and the European Convention on Human Rights at the University of Essex, UK. In 2006 and 2007, he was visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Rijeka, Croatia, and in 2007 also at the University of Zagreb (Faculty for Information and Organisation), Croatia.
In the late-70s and early 80s, Douwe Korff was Head of Europe Research at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat. He has since done work for the European Commission of Human Rights in Strasbourg, Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, the Netherlands Human Rights Institute, the International Council on Human Rights Policy and other IGOs and NGOs on international standards relating to freedom of expression, freedom of religion, the criminal justice system, and racism. He often acts as a human rights expert for the Council of Europe, the European Union and the OSCE and as such regularly writes opinions and provides training in the field of human rights and criminal justice, freedom of religion, etc.
In the last few years, he has carried out research and provided such opinions and training for judges, procurators, advocates and human rights activists in Armenia, Croatia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Douwe Korff has acted as counsel for the applicant in a number of leading cases under the European Convention on Human Rights, including Castells -v- Spain (concerning freedom of expression), McCann et al. -v- the UK (the "Gibraltar Shooting Case", concerning the right to life) and Kelly et al.- and Shanaghan -v- the UK (concerning the procedural aspect of the right to life), and has been closely associated with a number of other cases, against the Netherlands, France, Germany, the UK and Sweden. He is an Associate of London Metropolitan University’s European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) and, through EHRAC, involved in cases relating to alleged human rights violations in the Russian Federation and Georgia. He recently wrote the Council of Europe Human Rights Handbook on the Right to Life.
For the last fifteen years, Douwe Korff has also been a leading data protection expert and consultant. In that capacity, he has advised Amnesty International, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as international trade associations, in particular in the field of direct marketing (FEDMA, DMA-US), as well as individual companies. His corporate clients have included American Express, Cendant Corporation, Dun & Bradstreet, Readers Digest, Cygna, Symantec and others. He has written extensively on comparative, international and transnational data protection law and is involved in several major EU projects on data protection and e-government.
In the last ten years, he has carried out four major studies for the European Union’s Directorate-General on the Internal Market, relating to the implementation of EC Directives harmonising data protection law in the EU and the EEA, and was involved in two studies for the UK Information Commissioner, on "Privacy & Law Enforcement" and on "Children’s Databases- Safety & Privacy". He recently wrote an Issue Paper for the Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights on "Privacy & the Fight Against Terrorism". He is also a member of the advisory council of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), the leading UK think-tank on IT policy. |
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