Self-learning Materials

Although they may still represent a small percentage of the prison population, older inmates are the fastest-growing group in prisons. Thus, this course favours the development of knowledge about special needs and challenges of holistic care for elderly prisoners and also introduces good practices in working with older prisoners.

The issues raised in the EU directives were widely accepted in Greek theory and practice long before their entry into force. However, certain critical points were more specifically mapped out and developed in more detail in the transposition process.

This set of handbooks, aimed for practitioners, provide information on international private law in family matters and international private law in successions.

The Guide to preliminary ruling proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union aims to make practical suggestions based on experience acquired in the Netherlands. It provides general information as well as suggestions as to when and how to refer a case to the Court.

Guidelines on Alternatives to Extraordinary Judicial Vetting – a regional, peer-led initiative developed by judges, for judges, and designed to strengthen judicial accountability while preserving judicial independence.

These guidelines provide information related to the role, views, rights and needs of the child in judicial proceedings and in alternative procedures.

Guidelines on child focussed justice before, during and after judicial proceedings, developed by the Council of the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates (IAYFJM).

The CEELI Institute’s Guidelines on Judicial Vetting provide a resource on the extraordinary remedy of judicial vetting that aims to assist policymakers, judges, practitioners, journalists, and civil society actors alike for years to come both in the region and globally. This resource, published in 2024, is the product of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) Judicial Network, a trusted platform gathering over 370 judges across the region, which the CEELI Institute has been proud to found and moderate since 2012.

This handbook summarises the key European legal principles in the area of access to justice, focusing on civil and criminal law.

This Handbook is a guidance on the treatment of children recruited and exploited by terrorist and violent extremist groups, with emphasis on the role of the justice system.

This training material provides an overview of the EU’s and the CoE’s applicable legal frameworks in the field of data protection.

The handbook provides an overview of the EU’s and the CoE’s applicable legal frameworks. It also explains key case law, summarising major rulings of both the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, it presents hypothetical scenarios that serve as practical illustrations of the diverse issues encountered in this ever-evolving field.

This handbook provides an overview of the law applicable to asylum, border man-agement and immigration in relation to European Union (EU) law and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It looks at the situation of those foreigners to whom the EU usually refers as third-country nationals, although that distinction is not relevant to cited ECHR law. This handbook is designed to assist legal practitioners who are not specialised in the field of asylum, borders and immigration law; it is intended for lawyers, judges, prosecutors, border guards, immigration officials and others working with national authorities, as well as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other bodies that may be confronted with legal questions relating to these subjects.

The handbook is intended for lawyers, judges, prosecutors, border guards, immigration officials and others working with national authorities, as well as national human rights institutions, non-governmental organisations and other bodies that may be confronted with legal questions in the areas covered.

This handbook aims to illustrate how European law and case law accommodate the specific interests and needs of children. Children are full-fledged holders of rights. They are beneficiaries of all human and fundamental rights and subjects of special regulations, given their specific characteristics.

This handbook is designed for non-specialist legal professionals, judges, public prosecutors, child protection authorities, and other practitioners and organisations responsible for ensuring the legal protection of the rights of the child. It explains key jurisprudence, summarising major rulings of both the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.

European non-discrimination law, as constituted in particular by the EU non-discrimination directives, and Article 14 of and Protocol 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights, prohibits discrimination across a range of contexts and grounds. This handbook examines European non-discrimination law stemming from these two sources as complementary systems, drawing on them interchangeably to the extent that they overlap, while highlighting differences where these exist.

This handbook provides information on victim support programmes and for developing victim-sensitive policies, procedures and protocols for criminal justice agencies and others who come into contact with victims. It outlines the basic steps in developing comprehensive support services for victims of crime, such as crisis or long-term counselling, compensation, accompaniment to court and other advocacy services. The handbook is not intended to be prescriptive but to serve as a set of examples for jurisdictions to examine and test.

This HELP course on Business and Human Rights is part of a series of courses created by the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals in the European Union member states (HELP in the EU) aiming to support legal professionals and to enhance their capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level. This course is addressed to legal professionals (judges, prosecutors, lawyers). It aims at enabling legal professionals to understand the relationship between business and human rights, the international frameworks that govern this interaction and the duties and responsibilities that are in turn imposed upon businesses. The course will provide expert led education to increase awareness that all businesses, not just states, have an explicit role in the realization of human rights through a worldwide responsibility to respect them and implement best practice.