| Abstract: | The project aims at analysing, in a comparative way, the interaction of the national and European courts in the protection of human rights against legislative and regulatory action, or the lack thereof. It treats the relations between national courts as well as the interaction of the Court of Justice with national courts. Special consideration is given to the European dimension. In order to ensure the full effect of Community law, Member States must organise their judicial system in such a way that any provision of national law which conflicts with Community law can be set aside. In the field of human rights, national courts thus have to combine the protection afforded within their national legal order with the obligations flowing from Community law as well as with the minimum level of protection imposed by the European Convention on Human Rights. The project examines how problems and bottle-necks can be solved within the existing framework of judicial protection; and to what extent the existing system of judicial protection should be reformed in order to achieve an efficient and coherent system of human rights protection, in which judicial decisions are given within a reasonable period of time.- |