On 7 December 2016, Judge Robert Spano of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg gave a lunchtime talk entitled ‘The EFTA Court and Human Rights – More Strasbourg friendly than the CJEU?’. In his magisterial lecture, Judge Spano underlined the challenging nature of navigating through the multiple levels of human rights norms and emphasized the importance of the Court’s judgments concerning fundamental rights. His talk was followed by an insightful discussion.