Year: 2009
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A New Advisory Opinion May Be Coming Up
At its meeting on 8-9 July the Committee of Ministers (in its composition of deputies) of the Council of Europe decided to ask the Court for clarity on the issue of candidates lists for possible new judges submitted to the Parliamentary Assembly. The requests directly…
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Travaux Préparatoires Available Online
For all those interested in the historical roots of the ECHR, but with no direct access to an academic library, I can recommend the site of the Court’s own library. The site contains a full page with links to the Travaux Préparatoires of the Convention,…
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Article on Rape, Torture and ECHR in ICLQ
Clare McGlynn of Durhan Law School has published ‘Rape, Torture and the European Convention on Human Rights’ in the newest issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 58-3). This is the abstract: This article examines the legacy of the ground-breaking judgment in Aydin…
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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…