Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law / Recueil des cours de l’ Académie de droit européen

Your invitation to me, as the President of the European Court of Human Rights, to conclude this year's study programme on the protection of hu­ man rights in Europe by delivering the prestigious Winston Churchill lec­ ture is a great honour not only for me personally but for the European Court of Human Rights as a whole, and I should like to thank the European Uni­ versity Institute and its Academy of European Law most warmly for giving me this opportunity. You are fortunate to have had the o