Winter School on ECHR and Migrants

The University of Bologna – the oldest in Europe – is organising a ‘Winter School’ on ‘The European Convention of Human Rights: mechanism of protection and rights of migrants’ from 10 to 14 January 2011. According to the organisers, the course aims to focus on two topics: The functioning mechanism of the European Convention of Human Rights (submission of an application, conditions of admissibility, Court’s evaluation, judgments’ effects, surveillance mechanism on judgments’ implementation); The role of the ECtHR on the protection of migrants and of people without a nationality (arts. 2, 3, 8 ECHR). More information on registration can be found here and the full programme can be found here.