• Following the completion of the course, students should know: concepts, characteristics and classification of human rights; the concept of protection of human rights; Definition and classification of international human rights standards; universal and regional systems of human rights protection;
• Students should know how to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights and the conditions of the application to this Court; procedure for cases consideration in the European Court of Human Rights;
• Following the completion of the course, students should be able to: work with national laws and international instruments on human rights, and interpret them according to specific situations;
• Students should be able to make an application to the European Court of Human Rights; identify the legal position set out in the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.

• Prerequisites: no
• Corequisits: no

• The rights and freedoms of man and citizen: General characteristics; • Human rights activity: General characteristics; • Maintenance, security and human rights: the concept, features and their correlation; • Universal and regional human rights systems; • National forms and tools of human rights protection in Ukraine; • Forms and means of international human rights protection by institutions of the United Nations; • Forms and means of international human rights protection in Europe; • The current procedure for the establishment, composition and structure of the European Court of Human Rights; • The procedure for application to the European Court of Human Rights and the conditions of the application; • Consideration of the case in the European Court of Human Rights and the implementation of decisions of the Court; • Features of the protection of individual human rights by the European Court of Human Rights.

• Antonovych M. Ukraine in the international system of human rights protection: Theory and Practice. - K., 2007. - 384 p.
• Dudash T.Practice of European Court of Human Rights: Teach and practical handbook. / Dudash T. - K .: Alerta, 2013. - 368 p.
• Mytsyk V. Human rights in international law, international legal mechanisms of protection: a textbook for high schools. - K., 2010. - 722 p.
• Practice of European Court of Human Rights: general theoretical research // Works of Lviv laboratory of human and civil rights Research Institute of State Building and Local Self-Government at Law Academy of Ukraine / Redkol .: Rabinovich P. and others. - Series I. Studies and summeries. Issue 21 - Lviv: Krai, 2009. – 152 pages.
• On the enforcement and implementation of practice of the European Court of Human Rights: Law of Ukraine on February 23, 2006.
• Fule T. The use of the European Court of Human rights practice in the administration of justice: Scientific manual for judges. - 2nd ed. corrected, supplemented. - K., 2015. - 208 p.
• Hammarberg T. European human rights standards and Ukraine // Law of Ukraine. - 2010. - № 10. - P. 19-23.

• Current control at workshops and implementation of individual work (40%);
• Final control (60% credit).