Costas Paraskeva

is an expert of the Advocacy Centre on Council of Europe Standards (ACCESS) and a Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Cyprus, an advocate and a member of the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT). He has established himself as an expert in the area of the protection of human rights, under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), both as an academic and as a practitioner.

Costas regularly represents applicants before the European Court of Human Rights and provides legal consultations on diverse aspects of ECHR litigation. He is the author of a number of books, articles and chapters on various human rights issues and has conducted training on the ECHR for the Council of Europe, the OSCE and for various NGOs. His areas of research include the European system of protection of human rights, the effective enforcement and implementation of human rights norms, and the right of access to justice and redress.