La Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme en crise ? (II) - La réforme à droit constant – une transformation silencieuse de la Cour ?
The European Court of Human Rights in crisis? (II) - La réforme à droit constant – a silent transformation of the Court?

Summary/Abstract: Seen as a continuation of the study “La Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme en crise ?”, whose first part was published in the previous number of the journal, the article “La réforme à droit constant – une transformation silencieuse de la Cour?” focuses on certain atypical modalities to reform the system of the European Convention of Human Rights, which did not or do not involve a change of the conventional provisions. It considers, on one hand, a series of practices developed by the European Court of Human Rights itself (as the procedure of pilot judgements or various applications of the principle of subsidiarity), in order to limit the number of individual applications submitted to it, and, on the other hand, the measures adopted in the larger framework of the Council of Europe, with special regard on the so-called Interlaken process. The conclusions emphasize the importance of the debates concerning the role of the European Court in the future – jurisdiction focused on the individual applications, or jurisdiction playing a quasi-constitutional role in the field of human rights at the European level.

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