They will conduct comparative analyses of the various law systems and articulate problems and obstacles rooted in the laws, as well as in civil and criminal procedure in different countries. The staff attorneys will analyze the discriminatory effects of seemingly democratic legal arrangements. In brief, the Legal Defense Program will be a legal laboratory for Roma rights. At the same time, the Legal Defense Program will be a laboratory of law reform in a more general sense. Other deprived groups in society will benefit from this.
Class action is unknown and formally impossible.
But public interest lawyers will be available in the near future, and defense of Roma rights will be one of the triggers which will create them as a profession. This process will mean concerted pressure to change legislation as well a pressure that will bring about better treatment of members of abused groups and victims of discrimination. The ERRC will create a legal education program, which will help a generation of young minorities to grow as competent advocates for Roma legal rights. The ERRC will act to promote better understanding of specific problems with which Roma people in various social and cultural environments are faced. The main point of the ERRC message will be that Roma people are subjects of universal human rights and have to be respected and treated equally on the basis of this assumption alone.