- Legal concept of human rights: sources and defining issues; affirmation, positivization and evolution of human rights in Europe.
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). The Council of Europe.
- Genesis and legislative and jurisprudential developments of the protection of human rights in the "European legal area". The generations of fundamental rights.The new rights.
- TheECHR as a source of international law and as one of the sources of national law;
- The protection of human rights in the framework of the European Union: European human rights policies;
- Judicial system for the protection of human rights (EU Court of Justice and ECtHR). Direct individual action before the ECHR: the "filter" and the conditions for admissibility of actions.
- Protocol No. 16 to the ECHR;
- "dialogue" between European Courts in the European legal area;
- examination of the most recent case law of the ECtHR.