The course charts the position of local authorities and administrations in the EU legal system. It analyses their responsibilities in the application of EU law and describes their intervention on EU policy-making and legal standing before the EU courts.

Our yearly conference will fully immerse you in the most relevant case law of the past year. Uncover key judgments on several policy areas, as well as on the relationship between the EU and national legal orders. Discover aspects of the EU’s digital transition and connect with legal experts, practitioners, and academics in a dynamic networking environment.

The issue brief addresses current trends, challenges, and responses worldwide on defamation and related laws, with a particular focus on abusive legal practices such as SLAPPs and ‘forum shopping’.

This judicial analysis is primarily intended to be used by members of courts and tribunals of EU Member States working on international protection cases. It focuses on qualification for international protection under the Qualification Directive (QD) (recast). As now updated, it incorporates the analysis of Article 15(c) QD (recast), which was originally the subject of a separate judicial analysis.

These guidelines aim to provide a general framework for judicial actors to assess matters of privacy and data protection in the face of other rights, such as freedom of expression and the right to privacy. The document includes relevant case law from various national, international and regional bodies that may inform judicial actors’ understanding of the matters at hand. It draws a coherent line from privacy rights to data protection rights and the challenges of upholding these rights in the face of new technologies.

This toolkit aims to reinforce the practical application of universal standards on human rights, by bringing in approaches of regional human rights courts as well as perspectives from national legal systems.

This Guidance covers the right of free movement of EU citizens and their families. It focuses primarily on Directive 2004/38/EC, but also on specific applications of Articles 20 and 21 TFEU. It aims at providing updated guidance and supporting the work of national authorities, courts and legal practitioners. It integrates the relevant case law of the EU Court of Justice and aims to provide for the necessary clarifications on specific issues that citizens and national administrations have faced during the last years.

The Massice Open Online Course (MOOC) aims to introduce actors in the Justice System, such as judges, lawyers and prosecutors, to the intersection of AI and the Judiciary. This includes technical knowledge on AI and digital transformation, use cases of its adoption in Justice Systems, authoritative case-law as well as the legal, ethical, and the human rights implications of AI under international standards.

UNESCO's Webinar Series on AI and the Rule of Law explores how the Justice System may leverage digital tools, such as artificial intelligence, to empower access to justice and the risks and opportunities that come with it. It covers Intellectual Property and AI, admissibility of AI-generated evidence and augmented reality in the Judiciary.