Key Events and Meetings

The 2nd Liverpool Summer School on “Council of Europe at 75: Protecting Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law in a Rapidly Changing World” will be organised by the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, in cooperation with the Council of Europe’s OCEAN programme and other partners.

The Summer School will explore the role of the Council of Europe in addressing key challenges for human rights protection in the era of digital revolution and new technologies. In addition, the participants will consider how different bodies of the Council of Europe, such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), the Social Rights Committee (SRC) and the Venice Commission, have been contributing to the fundamental aims of the organisation.

The 45 participants from over 20 countries, will attend the course. 25 experts will give presentations, including Presidents of the European Court of Human Rights and the Parliamentary Assembly, Chairs of the CPT and the SRC as well as one of the Vice Presidents of the Venice Commission.