Month: July 2009
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Newest Issue of European Human Rights Law Review
Issue No. 3 (2009) of the European Human Rights Law Review has been published. Articles related to the ECHR include the following: * Eduardo Andrés Bertoni, The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights: A Dialogue on Freedom of Expression…
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New Journal Articles on ECHR
Still catching up on new ECHR-related journal articles. Here are two noteworthy ones: * A. Ashworth, ‘Self-incrimination in European human rights law – a pregnant pragmatism’, Cardozo law review, 2008, vol. 30, no. 3. * J. Barrett, ‘Chechnya’s last hope? Enforced disappearances and the European…
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First Single Judge Decisions at the Court
This month, the Court has started to use the possibilities offered by the reforms of Protocol 14-Bis to the ECHR. The most important innovations are that single judges can now declare manifestly ill-founded cases inadmissible and that committees of three judges can decide on the…
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New article on ECHR, Risks, and Environment
Back from the summer break with a new article on the Convention! Professor Christopher Hilson of the University of Reading has published a contribution entitled ‘Risk And The European Convention On Human Rights : Towards A New Approach’. freely accessible on his webpage.
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Summer Break
This blog’s author is taking a summer break. The blog will be running again on 27 July. Wishing all my readers a very good summer!
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New Vice-President
Today, the Court has elected Renate Jaeger from Germany as Vice-President of one of its Sections, with effect from 1 July 2009. This is the main part of the Court’s press release: Judge Jaeger was born on 30 December 1940 in Darmstadt and studied law…
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Article on European Consensus in Case Law
A new working paper of the University College Dublin has just been posted on SSRN entitled ‘European Consensus: A Way of Reasoning’, authored by Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou. This is the abstract: The margin of appreciation is probably one of the most controversial and widely discussed concepts…