Expert on Economic and Social Rights, Just Fair Policy Director
Research Associate at Newcastle University and the Policy Director of the human rights NGO Just Fair that monitors economic and social rights in the UK. Casla is the co-author of the first UK draft Bill on Economic and Social Rights, produced at Newcastle University with partners from civil society and other universities. He holds a PhD in European and International Studies from King’s College London, a Fulbright MA in International Studies from the University of Denver, an MA in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex, and a Law Degree from the University of the Basque Country, Spain. He is the author of four Amnesty International reports on the rights to health, education and housing in Spain. Casla recently published the book “Politics of International Human Rights Law Promotion in Western Europe: Order versus Justice”.