Month: May 2009
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New Scottish ECHR Resource
The Scottish Human Rights Law Group has launched and is still developing a website which contains a topical overview (including short summaries) of both ECHR cases and Scottish and other British cases concerning the ECHR. One can easily search the site through an index of
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First Anniversary
Dear readers, today this blog celebrates its first anniversary. After almost 150 posts and over 45,000 page views, I am very happy that so many academics and practitioners interested in the protection of human rights in Europe have found their way to this blog and
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Paper on Judicial Borrowing and the ECtHR
Erik Voeten, of the University of Georgetown, has posted a working paper entitled ‘Borrowing and Non-Borrowing among International Courts’ on SSRN. This is the abstract: Why do some international courts and judges extensively cite decisions from other courts whereas others do not? I argue that
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Two Free Articles from HRLR
Dear readers, the publisher of the Human Rights Law Review has been so kind to make two recent ECHR-related articles from the Review freely available for all readers of this blog. The articles, both previously featured on this blog, are: – Robin C.A. White and
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DNA Test to Establish Who the Father Is
Mater semper certa est, is an old Roman-law principle. But what about the father? That was at stake in a recent Russian case in which the Court rendered judgment last week: Kalacheva v. Russia (Appl.no. 3451/05). In 2003, the applicant had given birth to “a
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Libel Amongst Politicians During Campaign
Political campaigns are almost never the highlight of civility and politeness, in any country. A recent case of the Court, Karakó v. Hungary (Appl.no. 39311/05), concerns the accusation of libel by one politician against another during an electoral campaign. Please find below a summary and
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New Articles in EHRLR
The newest issue of the European Human Rights Law Review contains several ECHR-related articles. The first is authored by Paul Mahoney and entitled ‘A European Judicial Training Institute on Human Rights’. His plea for a new training instiute for jduges attached to the European Court
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Protocol 14 Bis – The Interim Solution
With Protocol 14 on the reform of the ECHR mechanism still stuck in the Russian Duma, the Council of Europe has launched a new initiative to prevent the European Court from succumbing (or getting crushed) under the increasing case-load. The Committee of Ministers has drafted