19 April 2011 - Professor Jasna Omejec, President of the Constitutional Court attended a Conference on "Harmonisation of Croatian legislation and practice with the standards of the European Court of Human Rights" organised by the Centre for Peace Studies and the Judicial Academy. President Omejec addressed the participants, predominantly attorneys and judges, on the importance of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms for the constitutional order of the Republic of Croatia, and emphasised in her lecture the outmost importance of the knowledge of the European Court of Human Rights case-law, which in the last 50 years developed the Convention as a dynamic, living instrument capable to deal with the situations that did not exist or were unimaginable at the time of its creation. She also pointed out that at the time when Croatia is finally emerging from the transitional period the Croatian attorneys, judges and other lawyers have to be well aware of the new requirements that the legal life harmonised with the European legal standards places before them.