VERBO stores earlier IRIS Themes’ publications and will be the home of all its future editions on Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. A go-to resource on the ECtHR’s freedom of expression case law for lawyers, judges, policymakers, rights defenders, scholars, journalists, and students, the IRIS Themes – now in the form of VERBO – span 1994-2025 years and such issues as freedom of assembly and association, freedom of conscience, prohibition of discrimination, right to free elections, and right to respect for private and family life, among others, within the context of freedom of expression and journalistic freedoms.

“My warmest thanks go to Tarlach McGonagle (IViR), who not only conceived the idea of the IRIS Themes under its previous format, but also designed and formatted it,” writes Maja Cappello, IRIS Coordinator and Head of the Department for Legal Information at the European Audiovisual Observatory. “I am also very grateful to Dirk Voorhoof (Human Rights Centre, Ghent University and Legal Human Academy), who took care of the summaries of the judgments and the decisions of the Court.”