On 27 May, Utrecht University is holding an online conference titled The European Convention on Human Rights: Beyond a Treaty. The conference explores the ECHR, beyond its formal treaty character, as an inspirational and aspirational source of human rights.
The conference is organised on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) in a joint collaboration with the Netherlands Network of Human Rights (NNHRR), the Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice, and Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law.
Here is the full programme of the conference:
Introduction: Kushtrim Istrefi and Claire Loven (13.00 – 13.15 CET)
Panel 1: ECHR as an inspirational source of human rights (13.15 – 14.45 CET)
Chair: Rick Lawson, Leiden University
ECHR in the EU legal order
Speaker: Ineta Ziemele, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union (former President of the Latvian Constitutional Court and ECtHR judge)
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional domestication of ECHR through the Dayton Peace Agreement
Speaker: Antoine Buyse, Utrecht University
Constitutional domestication of ECHR in Kosovo
Speaker: Kushtrim Istrefi, Utrecht University
Break (14.45 – 15.00 CET)
Panel 2: ECHR as an aspirational source of human rights? (15.00 – 16.45 CET)
Chair: Claire Loven, Utrecht University
Defining minimum standards of Convention protection by the ECtHR
Speaker: Janneke Gerards, Utrecht University
Under the bar: explaining deliberate choices to minimize the Strasbourg standards
Speaker: Catherine van de Heyning, Antwerp University
The role of the ECHR in a ‘culture of justification’: the example of Urgenda v. the Netherlands
Speaker: Ingrid Leijten, Leiden University
The application of the ECtHR jurisprudence by domestic courts in cases concerning the immunity of international organisations
Speaker: Luca Pasquet, Utrecht University
Concluding remarks: Luca Pasquet (16.45 – 17.00 CET)
The conference is free to join through this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87395734934
