Marta Achler

Background

About Marta Achler

DR MARTA ACHLER joined the team of the University of Florence, Law Department, working on the INFOLEAD project together with Oxford University and Helsinki University, on the media literacy of the judiciary and policymakers in May, 2024. She previously served as Deputy Head of the Democratization Department of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). She defended her PhD at the EUI in the field of human rights of assembly and association and new technologies. She recently collaborated as an expert with the Centre for Judicial Cooperation TRIIAL 2 project at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI Florence, Italy. Marta has been practicing as a lawyer in the field of international law and international human rights law for over 25 years. She also worked in the private law field, prior to taking on her assignments with ODIHR, where she held the post of Chief of the Legislative Support Unit in the Democratization Department representing the organization at United Nations and Council of Europe bodies (permanent representative to the Venice Commission) and subsequently became Deputy Head of Democratization. Her areas of expertise are, international human rights, constitutional law, judicial independence, democratization and new technologies and the law. She has worked on legal reform in Azerbaijan, Armenia, BiH, Bulgaria, Hungary, North Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Georgia, Serbia, Turkmenistan and Ukraine, among others. Since many years Marta has been working on legal opinions concerning the violations of the Rule of Law in the European Union, in particular Hungary, Poland and Romania. She has worked with International IDEA, UNESCO, and non-governmental organisations. She led processes of negotiations of new conventions and contributed to a number of handbooks and soft law tools - but also General Comments of the United Nations. Marta has also provided training for judges on international human rights standards and rule of law, most recently, at the SSM (Scuola Superiore della Magistratura) in Rome and Naples, and also within the remit of the EUI TRIIAL 2 project. She is the author or co-author of over 220 legal opinions on compliance of laws of OSCE participating States with International Law, as well as a number of publications in international human rights law journals. Marta is also an author at Just Security: