Human Rights Compliance and Democratic Transition of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (5cr)
Code: OTMEVAL0073V24-3002
General information
- Enrollment
- 12.08.2025 - 12.11.2025
- Registration for the implementation has begun.
- Timing
- 30.09.2025 - 03.10.2025
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Teaching languages
- english
- Seats
- 1 - 50
- Degree programmes
- Law
- Teachers
- Olga Pushina
- Course
- OTMEVAL0073V24
Evaluation scale
H-5
Objective
The students will learn about the ECHR standards of human rights protection. They will also learn to analyze the developments of national public policies in historical context and in comparative
perspective.
Execution methods
Lecture course
Accomplishment methods
Lectures (16h). Written home examination based on the lectures and recommended literature. The questions of the home exam will be given after the lecturing course is over.
Content
The multi-disciplinary lecture course will discuss the issues of democratic transition of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE states) that have been reflected in the case law of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) since the accession of these countries to the European Convention on
Human Rights (ECHR). The course will give a comparative overview of the case law of the ECtHR regarding compliance of the CEE states with the ECHR standards of human rights protection.
It will also include three case studies of policy areas that are crucial for understanding of compliance of
transitional policies with the ECHR (the judicial system, welfare policies, and restitution and privatization policies and their economic and social consequences).
The lectures will cover the following topics:
1) The history and impacts of the accession of the CEE states to the ECHR.
2) Overview of the CEE states’ compliance with the ECHR standards.
3) Structural problems in the judicial systems of the CEE states.
4) Reforms in the welfare sector.
5) Effects of restitution and privatization on the security of property rights.
Materials
The required reading is comprised of academic literature such as books and journal articles and relevant case law of the European Court of Human Rights. The list of recommended literature will be distributed to the registered students before the course.
Further information
Lecturer:Olga Pushina