Symposium: “The European Court of Human Rights and French criminal law: mere influence”

Friday, March 16, 2018, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Faculty of Law, Building 1, Lecture Hall C
Target audience: law students, Professors, practitioners

 

Since 1974, due to the persistent phenomenon of the Europeanization of law, the nature of the relationship between the European Court of Human Rights and French criminal law has raised serious questions.
While the current President of the Republic is campaigning for stronger ties between Europe and France, notably with the ratification of Protocol 16 establishing a notification procedure before the ECHR, opponents persist, going so far as to consider that " The ECHR has undermined France's sovereignty.
Thus, while some see the Strasbourg Court as a valuable tool for better guaranteeing human rights, others believe that it interferes excessively in our domestic law, thereby violating our most fundamental principles.
There are many examples that illustrate this difficulty in determining whether ultimatelyFrench criminal law is either simply influenced by or actually subordinate to the European Court, with police custody remaining the most famous example to date.
This symposium, organized by Professor Marie-Christine Sordino, Director of the Montpellier Criminal Law Team (EDPM-UMR 5815 Dynamics of Law) and Ms. Cécile Lefrançois and Ms. Clémence Vialatte, doctoral students at the University of Montpellier, will attempt to provide as accurate an answer as possible to this persistent question.
Through in-depth analysis, academics and magistrates will examine the characteristics of the relationship between French criminal law and the European Court, before turning their attention to the impact of the latter on our criminal law, both in terms of substance and procedure.
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