The University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre has launched a call for papers for its annual Student Human Rights Conference, geared towards postgraduate students. The theme of this 20th edition of the conference, to be held on 29 March 2019, is ‘The European Court of Human Rights: 60 Years of Success?’. This is the call:
'The Call for Papers invites submissions from postgraduate
students that discuss the following themes. The deadline is 1:00pm Thursday 13
December 2018.
- Do states found in breach of the Convention implement Court judgements and what role should the Court play in the enforcement of judgements?
- How can the Court overcome its overload of cases? Should it become a constitutional court, just taking on leading cases? What procedural changes could it make? How could states help?
- Does the margin of appreciation doctrine allow undue discretion to states or should deference to states be taken even further? Is the Court’s dynamic interpretation of the Convention justifiable and what role should state consensus play?
- Is the argument that the Court lacks legitimacy persuasive?
- What impact has the post-Cold War extension of the Convention to Central and East European states had?
- A comparison of the Court’s jurisprudence with that of other international courts or UN treaty monitoring bodies. Should there be harmonisation?
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact
the Student Conference Committee. We look forward to receiving papers from your
students!'
The Conference Committee encourages the submission of papers
from postgraduate students in any discipline on any of the above themes.
Authors of selected papers will be offered the opportunity to discuss their
work in panels which will take place as part of the conference, alongside
leading practitioners and academics working in the field. Papers and
presentations should be in English.'
