QUELLE RÉFORME POUR LA COUR EUROPÉENNE DES DROITS DE L’HOMME?
WHAT KIND OF REFORM FOR THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Summary/Abstract: On February the 7th 2001, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe designated a group of evaluation, in order to examine the issues created by the economic growth and the expected number of requests from the European Court of Human Rights, and also to propose the necessary measures to broach this impediment, while maintaining the effectiveness and the credibility of the human rights protection system established by the Convention for protection. The report of the evaluation group was filed on September 28 this year, and is currently under the guardianship of the political organs of the Council of Europe. The professors, Florence Benoît-Rohmer, Constance Grèwe and Patrick Wachsmann from the Robert Schuman University, in Strasbourg, took the initiative to reunite several eminent scholars from a major symposium which took place on 21st and 22nd of June 2002, in Strasbourg, under the chairmanship of MM. Wildhaber, President of the Court Fischbach, Judge of the Court, and Krüger, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe. The evaluation proposals of the group were analyzed, especially in the light of the comparative law teachings, recommendations that can also be extracted from the German, Spanish and American experience, hence the European Court distinguishing carefully the measures that involve or not, an amendment to the Convention for protection.

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