EU Law and European System of Human Rights Protection

3. The ECtHR – What is the Protection of HR About? - 8 October 2024

Please, read or skim through the following article as a preparation for our guest (former State Agent).

You do not have to read it all, but paragraphs on how the State Agent works might be helpful for you.

What is the core of rights protected in Europe?

What are the most contested cases?

Do states comply? Why?

Will UK leave the Council of Europe?

Will Russia join again?

Bošnjak, Marko, and Kacper Zajac. "Judicial Activism and Judge-Made Law at the ECtHR." Human Rights Law Review 23.3 (2023)

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Additional interesting information

2. Similar action in Czechia: Žuffová-Kunčová, Tereza; Kovalčík, Michal: Czechia’s First Climate Judgment, VerfBlog, 2022/9/03, https://verfassungsblog.de/czechias-first-climate-judgment/, DOI: 10.17176/20220905-111633-0
2. Germany and Netherlands: Eckes, Christina: Separation of Powers in Climate Cases: Comparing cases in Germany and the Netherlands, VerfBlog, 2021/5/10, https://verfassungsblog.de/separation-of-powers-in-climate-cases/, DOI: 10.17176/20210510-181511-0.
3. Kotzé, L. J. (2021). Neubauer et al. versus Germany: Planetary climate litigation for the Anthropocene? German Law Journal, 22(8), pp. 1423-1444, doi:10.1017/glj.2021.87
4. Reich, Johannes, Hausammann, Flora; Boss, Nina Victoria: Climate Change Litigation Before the ECtHR: How Senior Women from Switzerland Might Advance Human Rights Law, VerfBlog, 2022/5/16, https://verfassungsblog.de/climate-change-litigation-before-the-ecthr/, DOI: 10.17176/20220516-182357-0.

2. DH v Czechia

- Grand Chamber judgment: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre#{%22itemid%22:[%22002-2439%22]}