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European convention for protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms

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Category: Integrated undergraduate/graduate university Study of Law

Prof. Vesna Crnić-Grotić	Assist. prof. Maša Marochini Zrinski

Students will acquire appropriate knowledge on the protection of human rights within the Council of Europe through the European Convention on Human Rights. Practice and recent developments in human rights by the European Court of Human Rights will be considered thoroughly. Students will acquire competence in independent study as well as in the use of disposable electronic data basis on the topic.
 

Course content:

INTRODUCTION
Idea of Human Rights, Protection of human rights in Europe, Statute of Council of Europe, Human rights protection under Council of Europe, ECHR, Rights and freedoms in ECHR, Protocol No. 1, Protocol No. 4., Protocol No. 6., Protocol No. 7., Protocol No. 13. and Protocol No. 14, Restriction of rights and freedoms in ECHR, Position of ECHR in Croatian legal system
1. ARTICLE 1 OF THE CONVENTION
2. THE RIGHT TO LIFE: ARTICLE 2 AND PROTOCOLS NOS. 6.  AND 13
3. TORTURE, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT: ARTICLE  3
4. SLAVERY AND FORCED LABOUR: ARTICLE 4
5. LIBERTY AND SECURITY OF PERSON: ARTICLE 5 AND ARTICLES 1 AND 2 OF PROTOCOL NO. 4
6. THE RIGHT TO A FAIR HEARING: ARTICLE 6 AND ARTICLES 2 TO 4 OF PROTOCOL NO. 7
7. FREEDOM FROM RETROACTIVE CRIMINAL LEGISLATION:
    ARTICLE 7
8. GROUNDS FOR RESTRICTING THE EXERCISE OF RIGHTS UNDER THE CONVENTION
    (IN REGULAR CIRCUMSTANCES)
9. THE RIGHTS TO PRIVACY, FAMILY LIFE, HOME AND CORRESPONDENCE: ARTICLE 8, ARTICLE 12 AND ARTICLE 5 OF PROTOCOL NO. 7
10. FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, CONSCIENCE AND RELIGION: ARTICLE 9
11. FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND INFORMATION: ARTICLE 10
12. FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY AND ASSOCIATION: ARTICLE 11
13. THE RIGHT TO PEACEFUL ENJOYMENT OF POSSESSIONS:
      ARTICLE 1 OF PROTOCOL NO. 1
14. THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION: ARTICLE 2 OF PROTOCOL NO. 1
15. THE RIGHT TO FREE ELECTIONS: ARTICLE 3 OF PROTOCOL NO. 1
16. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF NATIONALS AND ALIENS: ARTICLE 16, ARTICLES 3 TO 4 OF PROTOCOL NO.  4
      AND ARTICLE 1 OF PROTOCOL NO. 7
17. THE PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION: ARTICLE 14
18. THE RIGHT TO AN EFFECTIVE DOMESTIC REMEDY: ARTICLE 13
19. DEROGATIONS IN TIME OF WAR OR OTHER PUBLIC EMERGENCY: ARTICLE 15.
20. RESERVATIONS AND INTERPRETATIVE  DECLARATIONS
21. EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Jurisdiction ratione materiae, Jurisdiction ratione personae, Jurisdiction rationae temporis, Jurisdiction ratione loci, Composition of Court, Protocol No. 14., Procedures, Article 33. vs. 34.
Exhaustion of domestic remedies, Just satisfaction, Advisory opinions