Sorbonne Doctoral Law Review - Revue Doctorale de droit de la Sorbonne

EDITORIAL

Marina Lovichi — 2025-12-22

L’EFFECTIVITÉ DES DROITS FONDAMENTAUX EN DROIT EUROPÉEN : APPROCHES JURISPRUDENTIELLES ET ENJEUX INSTITUTIONNELS

THE ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ADDRESSING FEMICIDE: CHALLENGES AND ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT

Katerina Koukouraki — 2025-12-22

Le présent article vise à examiner le nouveau projet d'adhésion à la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme. Il s'intéresse au recours individuel devant la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme et à l'autonomie du droit de l'Union européenne. Il convient tout d'abord de prêter attention aux aspects de l'adhésion de l'Union à la CEDH, ainsi qu'à l'adaptation de la procédure de recours individuel devant la CEDH. Il s'agit d'une discipline qui vise à garantir l'intégration du droit de l'Union européenne ainsi qu'à réaliser l'adhésion qui conduit au renforcement effectif de la protection des droits individuels dans l'ordre juridique de l'Union. Il est également important de souligner l'aspect qui reflète (et ne peut être préliminaire) le potentiel et les limites de la procédure de recours individuel à un nouveau projet d'accord dans la perspective de l'autonomie du droit de l'Union à travers le rang de cadre constitutionnel.

NOW AND BEYOND: ABORTION JURISPRUDENCE AT THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE

Juliette Moran — 2025-12-22

This dissertation addresses the ‘right to abortion’ question under the European Convention on

Human Rights (ECHR) fixing on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights

(ECtHR). A description of the state of play of abortion rights, as part of reproductive and

international human rights, under the ECHR is given. The persistent reluctance of the ECtHR

to declare a right to abortion is discussed with respect to articles of the ECHR; in particular,

the right to respect for private life, the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment and the

right to non-discrimination. Recent rulings by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal are seen to

effectively limit, if not abolish, the right to legal abortion. The ability of the ECtHR to find that

such restrictive abortion laws are a violation of the ECHR is posited with respect to Article 8,

highlighting the margin of appreciation (MoA) doctrine and (European) consensus; Article 3

and the denial of abortion as inhuman and degrading treatment; and Article 14, in respect of

gender discrimination. The thesis concludes that the ECtHR has the capacity to find that

restrictive abortion legislation violates multiple articles under the ECHR, namely, Articles 3, 8

and 14. Given past decisions of the ECtHR, the finding of a violation of Article 3, an absolute

right, would seem to be the most secure way for the court to ensure that therapeutic abortion is

protected under the Convention.

THE NEW PROJECT OF ACCESSION TO THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS. INDIVIDUAL APPEAL AT THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTEGRATION OF EUROPEAN UNION LAW

Dimitris Liakopoulos — 2025-12-22

The present paper aims to investigate the new project of accession

to the European Convention of Human Rights. Interest is the individual appeal at

the European Court of Human Rights and the autonomy of the law of the

European Union. It is worth paying attention first of all to the aspects of the

accession of the Union to the ECHR, as well as to the adaptation of the individual

appeal procedure before the ECtHR. This is a discipline that aims to ensure the

integration of the law of the European Union as well as to achieve the accession

that leads to the effective strengthening of the protection of individual rights

within the legal order of the Union. Also important is the aspect that reflects (and

cannot be preliminary) the potential and limits the individual appeal procedure to

a new draft agreement within the perspective of the autonomy of the law of the

Union through the rank of constitutional framework.