Call for Abstracts voor ECHR Workshop
Van 15-16 juni 2023 vindt de internationale workshop 'Heads and Tails': Admissibility and Remedies at the European Court of Human Rights' plaats, georganiseerd door de Universiteit Utrecht (Montaigne Centrum voor Rechtsstaat en Rechtspleging; Studie- en Informatiecentrum Mensenrechten - SIM) en de Universiteit Oslo (Institute of Private Law). De organisatoren doen een oproep voor abstracts (zie onderstaande link).
In recent years, much attention has been given to the position and effectiveness of the European Court of Human Rights. With the aim of helping the Court deal with its heavy case-load, the ‘Interlaken process’ and the entry into force of Protocol 15 ECHR have brought about important changes in the formal rules on access to the Court as well as the Court’s working processes.
Although these developments have been commented upon by scholars, their contributions often concern just one or a few particular aspects of the wider phenomena of admissibility and remedies. This makes it difficult to see the overall picture and discuss how the various developments regarding the ‘head’ and ‘tail’ of cases interact, from admissibility to striking off-decisions and remedies, or what their overall impact is on the ECHR system.
How do these developments relate to the debate on whether the Court should offer individual or general justice, and whether its primary role should be to offer redress to individual justice or rather (or also) to address systemic violations?
This workshop brings together a number of expert researchers working on the ECHR system, from different perspectives, and using different methods. The invitation to them is to address particular developments and changes in the Court’s approach to admissibility, strike-off decisions and remedies and critically review them in the broader light of the objectives and nature of the ECHR system. The workshop is set up to foster dialogue and discussion and to allow for the various developments to be compared and contrasted, so as to allow for a bigger picture to arise.