Month: June 2009
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Article on ECHR Impact in Russia
Alexei Trochev, of the University of Wisconsin, has just posted an article on SSRN on the impact of the ECHR in Russia, based on elaborate research of Russian sources: ‘All Appeals Lead to Strasbourg? Unpacking the Impact of the European Court of Human Rights on
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Problems in Appointing New ECtHR Judges
A procedural battle is being waged about the appointment of a new Ukranian Judge at the Court. There is currently no Ukrainian judge, which has meant thus far that for each case an ad hoc judge had to be appointed. The origin was the fact
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Article on ECtHR Overruling its Own Case Law
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review has just been published. Its opening article is on the European Court of Human Rights: Alistair Mowbray, ‘An Examination of the European Court of Human Rights’ Approach to Overruling its Previous Case Law’. This is the
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Article on Judges’ Views on the Court
The newest issue of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Volume 27, No. 2, 2009) contains an article by Robin C. White and Iris Boussiakou entitled ‘Voices from the European Court of Human Rights’. It is based on interviews with a number of Strasbourg judges
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Pinto Law Receives Benefit of the Doubt
A very large percentage of the cases coming to the Court from Italy have traditionally concerned complaints about judicial proceedings at the domestic level that took too long and for which no remedy existed. After numerous instances in which the Court found violations, Italy introduced
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Litigation and Implementation Research Project
A consortium of researchers from a range of Council of Europe member states has produced a series of reports on litigation before the European Court and implementation of its judgments on the national level: the JURISTRAS project. The website contains all the reports and a
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Landmark Judgment on Domestic Violence
The Court has just passed judgment in a landmark case on domestic violence: Opuz v. Turkey (Appl.no. 33401/02). The Court ruled that Turkey had failed to protect the applicant and her mother against grave instances of domestic violence and even found that the situation amounted
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Kenedi v. Hungary (Access to Information)
In its recent judgment Kenedi v. Hungary (Appl. no. 31475/05), the Court has given more clarifications on access to information. The applicant in the case was a historian doing research on the State Security Service. For several years he tried to get access to relevant
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New Article on Behrami and Saramati cases
The decision of the Court on the actions of peacekeepers in Behrami and Saramati keeps yielding food for thought for academics, as a new article in the latest issue of the International Community Law Review shows. Alexander Breitegger of the University of Vienna has written
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ECHR Seminar in London
On Wednesday 10 June, the Nuffield Foundation in London is hosting a seminar entitled ‘Scrutinising the Practice of the European Court of Human Rights: Fact-Finding Missions and the Nomination & Election of Judges’. The event will include two panels: Panel One: Fact-Finding Missions of the