EU Accession to the ECHR: "If at first you don't succeed..."

As the latest negotiations on EU accession to the ECHR inch closer to a successful conclusion, this conference will explore the proposed accession agreement as well as the future opportunities and challenges facing both the EU and the ECHR legal orders.

Attendance at the conference can be either in-person or online via Zoom. Below is the provisional programme. For more information, please refer to the University of Liverpool's website, here.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Friday 14th July: Events Space, School of Law and Social Justice

Keynote Speech from Robert Spano: The Council of Europe and the European Union - A Unified Political Community for the Protection of Human Rights?

Session A): The Framework of Accession (14.30-17.00)

• Valsamis Mitsilegas, Welcome from the Dean of the School of Law and Social Justice
• Mavluda Sattorova, Chair
• Paul Gragl, The new draft accession agreement
• Tobias Lock, Particular implications for the EU
• David Milner, Particular implications for the ECHR

Saturday 15th July: Events Space, School of Law and Social Justice

Session B): Cross-Cutting Thematic Issues in EU and ECHR Law (10.00-13.00)

• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Chair
• Demi Franklin Lee and Vassilis Tzevelekos, The future of the Bosphorous doctrine
• * Hanna Eklund, Two “margin of appreciation” doctrines?
• Eleanor Spaventa, Accountability gaps: executive “non-acts” in EU and ECHR law
• Eleni Frantziou, Horizontality of fundamental rights protection

Session C): Case Studies for Convergence, Divergence, Mutual Learning (14.00-16.00)

• Michael Dougan, Chair
• Róisín Á Costello, Data protection
• * Mariagiulia Giuffre, Migration
• Barbara Grabowska-Moroz, Rule of law / judicial independence

Close of Proceedings (16.00)