CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 22 avril 2009

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s83BE5C30 { font-family:Arial; font-size:8pt; vertical-align:super } .s7ED160F0 { text-decoration:none } .s3DC36BA9 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline; color:#0069d6 } .sADADF4A7 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .sC7EAD8B { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic }   336 22.04.2009   Press release issued by the Registrar   Poitiers University team wins 2009 René Cassin Human Rights Prize   Poitiers University students have been declared winners of the 23 rd edition of the “René Cassin” European Human Rights Competition, held at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on 20 and 21 April 2009.   The winning team beat the University of Grenoble in the final of the competition, which took place in the European Court’s hearing room, in front of a panel of judges chaired by Professor Vlad Constantinesco, Dean of the International Faculty of Comparative Law.   The René Cassin competition, which consists of mock legal proceedings based on the European Convention on Human Rights, is one of the foremost French-language legal advocacy contests, open to all students of law and political science.   For the 2009 edition, on Monday 20 April the 16 teams selected following the written stage of the competition (which entailed drafting a memorial) argued their cases, on such subjects as the right to marry and freedom of expression, before a mock court made up of academics, judicial officers and officials from the European Court.   Further information about the competition can be found on the Internet site: www.concourscassin.eu .     ***   Further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   Press contacts Stefano Piedimonte (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 04) Tracey Turner-Tretz (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Paramy Chanthalangsy (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 28 30) Kristina Pencheva-Malinowski (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 70) Céline Menu-Lange (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 58 77)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.