Prof. Eric Heinze, Licence, Maîtrise (Paris); J.D. (Harvard); Ph.D. (Leiden), Member of the Bars of New York and Massachusetts.
Eric Heinze came to Queen Mary in 1995. After completing his law degree at Harvard in 1991, he worked with the International Commission of Jurists and UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva, and on private litigation before the United Nations Administrative Tribunal in New York. He has also advised NGOs on human rights, including Liberty and Amnesty International.
Prof Heinze’s awards and fellowships have included a Fulbright Fellowship, 1991-92; a French Government (Chateaubriand) Fellowship, 1992-93; a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) fellowship, 1986-87; a Nuffield Foundation Grant, 1998; a Harvard University Fellowship (Sheldon), 1992; an Andres Public Interest grant, 1990; and a C. Clyde Ferguson Human Rights Fellowship, 1989.
Prof. Heinze is convenor of the LL.B courses Democracy and Justice; Law and Literature; Law, Justice and Ethics; and Constitutional Rights in the United States. He has also taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses in Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, Public International Law and International Human Rights Law. He currently co-ordinates Queen Mary’s Inter-Departmental Philosophy Programme, which has featured .
BOOKS:
• The Logic of Constitutional Rights (Ashgate 2005)
• The Logic of Liberal Rights (Routledge, 2003)
• The Logic of Equality (Ashgate, 2003)
• Of Innocence and Autonomy: Children, Sex and Human Rights (editor) (Ashgate 2000)
• Sexual Orientation: A Human Right (Martinus Nijhoff, 1995) [Russian translation, Idea Press, Moscow, 2003].
WRITINGS ON HUMAN RIGHTS:
• ‘Wild-West Cowboys versus Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Some Problems in Comparative Approaches to Extreme Speech', in Extreme Speech and Democracy chapter 10, James Weinstein and Ivan Hare, eds., Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 182 – 203.
• ‘Cumulative Jurisprudence and Hate Speech: Sexual Orientation and Analogies to Disability, Age and Obesity’, 12 International Journal of Human Rights (2009), reprinted in: Extreme Speech and Democracy chapter 14, James Weinstein and Ivan Hare, eds., Oxford University Press, pp. 264 – 84 (2009), and in Protection of Sexual Minorities since Stonewall—Progress and Stalemate in Developed and Developing Countries, Phil C. W. Chan, London: Routledge, forthcoming.
• ‘Public Awareness of Human Rights: Distortions in the Mass Media’, 12 International Journal of Human Rights (with Rosa Freedman) (2009)
• ‘Even-handedness and the Politics of Human Rights’, 21 Harvard Human Rights Journal (2008), pp. 7 – 46.
• ‘Towards the Abolition of Hate Speech Bans’, in Religious Pluralism and Human Rights 295 – 309 (Titial Loenen & Jenny Goldschmidt, eds. 2007).
• ‘Viewpoint Absolutism and Hate Speech’, 69 Modern Law Review 543 – 82 (2006)
• ‘Children’s Rights’ in Governments of the World (T. Edelman et al., eds. 2006).
• ‘Sexual Orientation and International Law: A Study in the Manufacture of Cross-Cultural “Sensitivity”’, 22 Michigan Journal of International Law 283 – 309 (2001); reprinted in Discrimination and Toleration 205 – 27 (Kirstin Hastrup, ed. 2002)
• ‘The Universal Child?’ in Of Innocence and Autonomy: Children, Sex and Human Rights 3-24 (Eric Heinze, ed. 2000)
• ‘The Construction and Contingency of the Minority Concept,’ in Minority and Group Rights Toward the New Millennium 25 – 74 (Bill Bowring & Deirdre Fottrell, eds. 1999)
• ‘Victimless Crimes’, 4 Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics 463-75 (Celia B. Fisher et al. eds. 1997).
• ‘Gay and Poor’, 38 Howard Law Review 433 – 48 (1994)
• ‘Beyond Parapraxes: Right and Wrong Approaches to the Universality of Human Rights Law,’ 12 Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 369 – 91 (1994)
• ‘Equality: Between Hegemony and Subsidiarity,’ 52 Review of the International Commission of Jurists 56 – 65 (1994)
WRITINGS ON LEGAL PHILOSOPHY:
• ‘The Status of Classical Natural Law: Plato and the Parochialism of Modern Theory’, 20:2 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 323 – 50 (2007).
• ‘Truth and Myth in Critical Race Theory and LatCrit: Human Rights and the Ethnocentrism of Anti-Ethnocentrism’, National Black Law Journal (Columbia Law School), Vol. 20:2 (forthcoming 2007).
• ‘Epinomia: Plato and the First Theory of Law’, 20 Ratio Juris 97 – 135 (2007)
• ‘The Logic of Standards of Review in Constitutional Cases’, 28 Vermont Law Review 121 – 47 (2003)
• ‘Principles for a Meta-Discourse of Liberal Rights: The Example of the European Convention on Human Rights,’ 9 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 319 – 94 (1999)
• ‘Discourses of Sexuality: Classical, Modernist and Post-Modernist’, 67 Nordic Journal of International Law 37 – 76 (1998)
WRITINGS ON LAW AND LITERATURE:
• ‘Power Politics and the Rule of Law: Shakespeare’s First Historical Tetralogy and Law’s “Foundations”’, 29 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2009)
• ‘“Were it not against our laws”: Oppression and Resistance in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors’, 29 Legal Studies (2009)
• ‘Empire, Nation, Liberation, Oppression: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline’ 18(3) Journal of Social & Legal Studies (2009)
• ‘Heir, Celebrity, Martyr, Monster: Legal and Political Legitimacy in Shakespeare and Beyond’, 20(1) Law & Critique (2009).
• ‘“This power isn’t power if it’s shared’: Law and Violence in Racine’s La Thébaïde’, 22 Law & Literature (2010).
• ‘“The World Merely a Prison’: Nation and Empire in Jean Racine’s Alexandre le Grand’ (forthcoming)
Postgraduate supervision
Prof. Heinze welcomes proposals for postgraduate supervision in the fields of jurisprudence, legal theory, legal philosophy, law and humanities and human rights.
