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1 Eur. Convention on Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/euncvnohn1 and id is 1 raw text is: EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS LAW European Convention on BRILL REVIEW 1 (2020) 1-6 Human Rights N IJ H O F F brill.com/eclr Editorial The Conscience of Europe that Landed in Strasbourg: A Circle of Life of the European Court of Human Rights The European Court of Human Rights ('ECtHR' or 'Court') is the oldest and most successful regional human rights tribunal. It covers a vast territory, from Reykjavik in Iceland to Vladivostok in Russia. More than 8oo million people can potentially lodge an application before the Court complaining about a vio- lation of one of the rights enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights ('ECHR' or 'Convention'). The ECtHR, not very modestly, calls itself the conscience of Europe.1 Admittedly, it delivers judgments that affect 47 states in many areas of law. Its case-law is discussed nationally and internationally by the general public, journalists, lawyers, academics, civil society, national (judi- cial) authorities, and international organisations. Although there is no consen- sus as to whether this Court is indeed the conscience of Europe, it does leave its footprint on the legal and social fabric of Europe. What has puzzled us since we started researching the ECtHR quite a few years ago, is that there was no academic journal dealing exclusively with the ECtHR. Of course, a lot is written about the Court but the most authoritative articles are published in journals that are either generalist - in other words, they publish papers in all areas of law - or which specialise in areas like pub- lic international (human rights) law, European (human rights) law, constitu- tional law, and the theory of human rights. There was no journal devoted to the law of the ECHR that would offer researchers the opportunity to publish long, multi-disciplinary studies. Our ambition with the ECHR Law Review is to fill this gap in a way that will offer scholars a place to systematically analyse, i Council of Europe, The Conscience of Europe: 50 Years of the European Court of Human Rights (Millenium Publishing 2010). © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2020 1 DOI:10.1163/26663236-00101005

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