Martin Scheinin

Martin Scheinin (born 4 November 1954) is an international law scholar who served as the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism in 2005–2011. He was selected for this position after serving for eight years (1997–2004) as member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the independent expert body monitoring states' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. While on the committee, he was known as a defendant of the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples and opponent of capital punishment, as well as the drafter of the committee's General Comment No. 29 on states of emergency.

Today, he is British Academy Global Professor at the University of Oxford, Visiting Professor at Lund University's Faculty of Law, and remains a part-time professor of International Law and Human Rights at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is an expert of international law, human rights and constitutional law. From 2010 to 2014 Scheinin was President of the International Association of Constitutional Law. In 2018-2023 he was a member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.