A hopeful future for European human rights

Mattias C. Kettemann writing in the Harvard Law Record: “While the details, as mentioned before, will still need to be worked out and the days before the Interlaken conference are sure to be filled with intensive intra-European human rights diplomacy, one conclusion of President Costa is certainly true: Reforms must bear in mind the ‘principle of a better sharing of responsibility between the Court and the States.’ Truly, ensuring human rights protection is not a matter that states can leave to a court alone, especially one as swamped with cases as the European Court of Human Rights. It is a common responsibility.”