title: The Case Law of the ECtHR in 2024: The echr and the Contemporary Global Challenges for the International Community
abstract: This contribution analyses the main developments in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in 2024. As usual, the main criterion for selecting the relevant cases has been the list of ‘key cases’ published by the Court. A preliminary overview shows that many of those cases concerned, in one way or another, issues that have been described by scholars, states and international organisations, and sometimes even by the Court, as ‘global challenges’ or ‘emergencies’, such as, to mention ju