he School of Law at the University of Athens, in collaboration with the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights (MFHR), successfully organized a two-day conference on December 12 and 13, 2024. The conference, conducted in Greek, focused on “50 Years of the ECHR: Interactions with Various Branches of Greek Law” It was held at the “Alkis Argyriadis” Amphitheater in the Central Building of the University of Athens.

For the first time, 42 distinguished speakers, academics, senior judges, professors of law schools, international experts and lawyers discussed and analysed the interplay between the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and various branches of the Greek legal order.

On the first day of the conference, the historical, philosophical and sociological origins of the Convention were discussed in depth and then, the impact of the ECHR on various branches of civil law, civil procedure, labour and commercial law, criminal law and criminal procedure as well as penitentiary law. On the second day of the conference, the scientific discussion focused on the relationship of the ECHR with public law and the echo of the ECHR beyond national law, with emphasis on EU law, private international law and other branches of international law.

The MFHR extends its sincere gratitude to all students and professionals in the legal field for their attendance and active participation. Their contributions were instrumental in fostering a particularly lively scientific discussion, which will soon be documented in written form.

You can see the detailed programme of the event here and the videos of the event [in Greek] here: