Elections
The ELI Council elected the following individuals to nominate positions within the Executive Committee:
- Prof Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, President-Elect
- Sir Geoffrey Vos, First Vice-President-Elect
- Prof Pietro Sirena, Second Vice-President-Elect
- Anne Birgitte Gammeljord, Treasurer-Elect
They will assume office in September during the 2025 ELI Annual Conference, taking place from 22–24 September.
Approved Projects
ELI’s Draft Enforcement Against Digital Assets project was approved at this Council session. This output follows from the first phase of the project, which culminated in the ELI Principles on the Use of Digital Assets in 2022 (available here). It contributes to the global debate by setting out Principles and Implementation Guidance aimed at courts, lawmakers and international organisations reforming, adapting, interpreting, or applying enforcement rules, procedures, and methods in the field. The final version of the output will be up for Membership approval soon.
The Council also approved ELI’s Draft Guiding Principles and Model Rules on Algorithmic Contracts, which follows ELI’s Interim Report on EU Consumer Law and Automated Decision-Making, published in December 2023 (available here). These Principles, which are designed to be supplementary to existing rules on consumer law and contract law, were developed to provide the necessary legal rules for automating contractual relations through algorithmic systems (particularly those relying on AI algorithms), referred to as ‘digital assistants’, for all the stages of the life-cycle of a consumer contract. The final version of the output will be up for Membership approval soon.
Adopted Projects
The project on Case-Overload at the European Court of Human Rights: An Update seeks to update an earlier Statement on case-overload at the Strasbourg Court, (available here) and will be led by Thibaut Larrouturou (Associate Professor, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Paul Mahoney (Former Judge and former Registrar, European Court of Human Rights), Klaudiusz Ryngielewicz (Director of filtering and support services, Deputy to the Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights) and Andreas Zünd (Judge, European Court of Human Right).
ELI’s 2012 Statement formulated a few key recommendations which proved to be foresighted, in that they have found their way into the European Convention on Human Rights, the Rules of Court or the Court’s practice. More than a decade after the 2012 Statement, however, the list of applications pending before a judgment formation remains large and, above all, the Court’s caseload has changed somewhat in nature. In the face of this challenge, ELI’s Council agreed that the time seemed right to undertake a follow-up study on case-overload at the Court in order to stimulate debate on this decisive issue for the future of the protection mechanism under the Convention. Possible changes in practice and procedure, and even in treaty provisions, will thus be examined and recommendations made accordingly.
