Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters: 2023 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture

The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies.
The 2023 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by President Síofra O'Leary, ECHR under the title 'Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters' on 30 November 2023.
The lecture begins at 02:56
More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at:
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There's an English saying, that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and if there was a referendum on Human Rights things would look a whole lot different than the one formulated to create the illusion of what Human Rights 'should' be, which is the current case without such a referendum.