Helga Molbæk-Steensig personal website

Postdoctoral researcher at the Law Department

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Publications

Books

  1. Forthcoming: Helga Molbæk-Steensig, Alberto Quintavalla, Sascha van Schendel, and Jeroen Tempermann: Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: A Textbook. Oxford University Press, 2027.
  2. Forthcoming: Helga Molbæk-Steensig, Francesca Palmiotto, Alberto Quintavalla, and Jeroen Tempermann: Research Handbook: Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar. 2027.

Peer reviewed articles

  1. Forthcoming: Molbæk-Steensig, Helga and Alessandro Morelli, 2026: Constitutional Limitations to partial automation of adjudication: A Comparative Study of Denmark and Italy. Cambridge Forum on AI, Law and Governance.
  2. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga and Martin Scheinin, 2025: ‘Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare-related Settings: a Grammar of Human Rights Approach’. 32(2) European Health Law Journal. 139-164.
  3. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga, 2024: ‘Battling for the is-position in the Field of Law: The problem of Case Law sampling’. European Journal of Legal Studies. 15(2) 37-56.
  4. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga and Alexandre Quemy, 2023: ‘Judicial Independence and impartiality: tenure changes at the European Court of Human Rights’ European Journal of International Law. 34(3) 581-614.
  5. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga, 2023: ‘Subsidiarity does not win cases: A mixed methods study of the relationship between margin of appreciation language and deference at the European Court of Human Rights’. Leiden Journal of International Law. 36(1) 83-107.
  6. Molbæk-Steensig Helga, 2022: ‘AI at the European Court of Human Rights: Technological Improvement or Leaving Justice by the Wayside?’ Ordine Internazionale e Diritti Umani 5/2022 1254-1267.
  7. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga, 2022: ‘How to deal with really good bad-faith interpreters: M.A. v Denmark.’ Utrecht Journal of International and European Law. 37(1) 59-65.
  8. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga, 2020: ‘Jurisdiction and Human Rights protection in Kosovo: A black hole in Europe’. Nordisk Østforum, 34(1) 274–294.
  9. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga, 2018: ‘In defence of the dynamic interpretation tradition at the European Court of Human Rights’. The Universal. 2, 37-50.
  10. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga, 2017: ‘Politicisation of Enlargement: The future of the Balkans in Europe.’ Bezbjednosti Dialozi. 8(1), 267-282.
  11. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga, 2016: ‘The prohibition of retroactive law and other safeguards when conducting institutional reform: The right to non-recurrence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.’ International Journal on Rule of Law, Transitional Justice and Human Rights. 7, 138-146.
  12. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga 2015: ‘Reviewing the narrative of the double standard Europe concerning collective minority rights’. International Journal on Rule of Law, Transitional Justice and Human Rights. 6, 13-27.

Book Chapters and Working Papers

  1. Forthcoming: Zuzanna Godzimirska and Helga Molbæk-Steensig, 2027: ‘Third-Party Interventions and State Collaboration at the European Court of Human Rights’ in Kjetil Mujezinović Larsen, Stian Øby Johansen and Geir Ulfstein: The Role of the Executive Branch in the Domestic Application of International Law. Oxford University Press.
  2. Forthcoming: Helga Molbæk-Steensig and Ben Malin. 2027: ‘Lost in Translation: How diverging methods and terminologies in AI development and human rights law limit the impact of ethical AI measures’ in Helga Molbæk-Steensig, Francesca Palmiotto, Alberto Quintavalla, and Jeroen Tempermann: Research Handbook: Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar. .
  3. Forthcoming: Helga Molbæk-Steensig. 2027: ‘Human rights or human alignment: The impact on vulnerable minorities of fragmented vocabularies on bias and discrimination in AI development for courts’ in Medda-Windischer, Roberta and Nardocci, Costanza: Minorities and Minority Rights before Artificial Intelligence: Risks and Undetected Challenges.
  4. Forthcoming: Helga Molbæk-Steensig. 2026: ‘AI in the European Court of Human Rights’ in Monika Zalnieriuteand Agne Limante(eds.): The Cambridge Handbook of AI and Technology in Courts, Cambridge University Press.
  5. Helga Molbæk-Steensig, 2025: ‘Ad Hoc use of Generative AI by Judges’. ESIL Working Paper Series.
  6. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga. 2025: 4 entries in Kushtrim Istrefi, Zane Ratniece and Kristaps Tamuzs (eds): Companion to The European Convention on Human Rights. Brill.
    1. ‘judgments’
    2. ‘decisions’
    3. ‘separate opinions’
    4. ‘striking out’
  7. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga and Alexandre Quemy, 2023: ‘Artificial Intelligence and Fair Trial Rights’, in Quintavalla, Alberto and Jeroen Temperman, Human Rights and AI. Oxford University Press.
  8. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga 2022: ‘The Copenhagen Declaration: Wrapping up the Interlaken Reform?’, in Stephanie Schiedermair, Schwarz, Alexander, Steiger, Dominik, Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights. Nomos.
  9. Scheinin, Martin and Helga Molbæk-Steensig, 2021: ‘Human Rights-based versus populist responses to the pandemic’. In Kjaerum, M, Davis, M, Lyons, A: COVID-19 and Human Rights. Routledge.
  10. Scheinin, Martin and Helga Molbæk-Steensig, 2021: Pandemics and human rights: three perspectives on human rights assessment of strategies against COVID-19. EUI Law working paper. 1/2021.
  11. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga, 2019: ‘Kosovo and the oddities of not being a recognised state’. In: Agir, Bülent (ed.): Kosovo, Past, Present and Future. Nova.

Blogs, Book-Reviews, Reports and Editorials

  1. Forthcoming: Li, Shu, Helga Molbæk-Steensig and Alberto Quintavalla: 'Editorial: Towards Trustworthy and Responsible AI in Adjudication' in Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance: 2026.
  2. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga and Martin Scheinin, 2025, ‘D6.2 Assessing emerging ELOQUENCE technology: Report approved by the ELOQUENCE Community on assessing project outputs as to respecting EU values, with particular emphasis on gender, cultural or racial biases ’ ELOQUENCE project report. Grant agreement number: 101135916.
  3. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga and Martin Scheinin, 2024, ‘D6.1 Report on linguistic expression respectful of EU values’ ELOQUENCE project report. Grant agreement number: 101135916.
  4. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga and Michael Widdowsson, 2024, ‘Editorial: Publish, perish or (self)plagiarise?’ European Journal of Legal Studies 15(2). 1-9.
  5. Scheinin, Martin and Helga Molbæk-Steensig, 2023: Assessing human rights compliance of European countries while combating Covid-19 [Drets humans i pandèmia: el rol dels països europeus davant la lluita contra la COVID-19], IDEES. Centre for Contemporary Studies from the Ministry for Foreign Action and European Union of the Government of Catalonia. 12 December 2023.
  6. Molbæk-Steensig, 2023: ‘No democracy without human rights – On the pressure on democracy and the rule of law in Europe’ In: Report on Prisons and the Concept of Human Rights: The Island of Santo Stefano and the Development of Human Rights in Europe. 69-81.
  7. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga, 2023, ‘Editorial: Maieutic or Meddlesome: reflections on the roles of the journal and the author’ European Journal of Legal Studies, 15(1) (2023), 1-9.
  8. Steininger, Silvia and Helga Molbæk-Steensig: ‘Favourite Readings 2022: A collection of First Academic Books’ EJIL:Talk!. 31.12.2022.
  9. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga, and Alexander Gilder 2022. ‘Editorial: Thoughts on Academic Publishing for Early Career Researchers’. European Journal of Legal Studies, 14(1), 1-7.
  10. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga: ‘Did we solve the caseload problem? Russia’s exit from the European Court of Human Rights.’ EUIdeas. 24.3.2022.
  11. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga: ‘M.A. v Denmark: Is Denmark (Still) a Good-Faith Interpreter with legitimate aims?’ Strasbourg Observers. 21.9.2021
  12. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga and Alexandre Quemy 2021: ‘Cautiously making friends with AI: Machine learning for human rights research and practice’. Conference paper Rotterdam.
  13. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga, 2021: ‘Dänemark’ in MIDEM Jahrestudie: Corona und Rachtspopulismus. Mercator Forum. 42-55.
  14. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga: ‘Particularities in the challenge to the rule of law in Eastern Europe.’Constitutionalism and Politics, 25.3.2020.
  15. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga: ‘Something Rotten in the State of Denmark?’, VerfassungsBlog, 26.4.2018.
  16. Molbæk-Steensig, Helga: ‘Book Review: Globalising transitional justice: Contemporary Essays’ by Ruti Teitel.’ International Journal on Rule of Law, Transitional Justice and Human Rights. Vol. 8. December 2017.
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