La Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme en crise ? (I)
The European Court of Human Rights in crisis? (I)

The procedure at the European Court of Human Rights, between reform and reversal

Summary/Abstract: The article “La procédure à la Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme, entre reforme et retour en arrière”, a first part of the study “La Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme en crise?”, focuses on those modifications operated, over time, to the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, for the alleged purpose of improving the efficiency of the judicial activity of the European Court of Human Rights. Currently, one of the main problems of the Strasbourg court remains the case load, and the reforms operated up to this point only offered punctual and limited solutions to this problem. The article offers a general overview on these reforms which used the modification of the conventional provisions as main instrument, starting with the first efforts to adjust the judicial mechanism in the ‘80s and up to now, when new changes are considered, through the Protocols no. 15 and 16. The second part of the study, to be published in the future, will concentrate on those measures for the improvement of the activity of the European Court of Human Rights, adopted by the Strasbourg bodies, which do not involve any change of the provisions of the founding treaty.

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