Month: January 2010
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Costa’s New Year’s Press Conference
Yesterday, president Costa of the Court gave his annual press conference. He expressed optimism for three very different reasons. First, the entry into force of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty which clears the way for EU accession to the ECHR. President Costa qualified this as an
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New Italian Judge at the Court
Tuesday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected Mr Guido Raimondi He has been elected for a six-year term of office and will replace Vladimiro Zagrebelsky, who in March will be reaching the age of 70 – the age-limit for ECtHR judges. He
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Book on Interpretation Techniques of ECtHR and IACtHR
Nomos Publishers just published a book by Benavides Casals entitled Die Auslegungsmethoden bei Menschenrechtsverträgen Die Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte und des Interamerikanischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte (Methods of intepretation of human rights treaties by the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights). For those
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PACE, S-G, and Interlaken
Last December the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held a hearing on the Interlaken process entitled ‘The future of the Strasbourg Court and enforcement of ECHR standards: reflections on the Interlaken process’. The conclusions of the chairperson of that hearing, Mrs Herta
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New Academic Articles on ECHR
Here is an overview of recent ECHR-related articles in leading academic journals (and less recent ones, that I did not notify before). First, the Human Rights Law Journal features two articles on the ECHR in its latest issue (vol. 9, no. 4, 2009): * A.
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Court’s Second Advisory Opinion
The Court has just issued its second Advisory Opinion ever, entitled ‘On certain legal questions concerning the lists of candidates submitted with a view to the election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights’. The questions at issue arose from the fact that
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Upcoming Second Advisory Opinion of the Court
This Friday the Court will issue its second Advisory Opinion ever. It was requested by the Committee of Ministers (to be precise, their deputies) last year and concerns the following question: “whether a list of candidates for election as a judge in respect of a
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Russian Duma Has Accepted Protocol 14 Today
The Russian Duma has ratified Protocol 14 today (a majority of 392 votes out of 450). The other branch of the legislative, the Federation Council, now has to accept it still. Following protracted negotiations it will now be guaranteed for Russia that a Russian judge
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Four Freedoms Award 2010 Granted to European Court
It has just been made public that the International Four Freedoms Award 2010 will be granted to the European Court of Human Rights. This annual award was created to honour the Four Freedoms, as first declared by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on January 6th 1941
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Article on ECHR and Refugees
I have not reported it earlier, but a few months ago Karl C. Procaccini published the article ‘Constructing the Right “Not to Be Made a Refugee” at the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights’ in the online Harvard Human Rights Journal. This is the