Month: February 2010
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Series of Conferences on ECHR
The French Council of State, together with the European Court of Human Rights, is organising a series of conferences in 2010 and 2011. The first one, on 19 April of this year in Paris, will be devoted to ‘the principle of subsidiarity and the European
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The Press on Interlaken
The European press is reporting on Interlaken, but I must say there is not a lot on it yet. Most news media seem to limit themselves to an overview of the reforms needed rather than an analysis of the conference’s outcomes. Maybe more will come
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Interlaken Declaration and Protocol 14
Double news from Switzerland. First, Protocol 14 will now finally enter into force on 1 June, after yesterday’s reposit – just before the start of the Interlaken Conference – by Russia of its instrument of ratification. Read the relieved press statements of the Swiss president
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Interlaken Today and Tomorrow
Today and tomorrow the long-awaited Interlaken conference on the future of the European human rights protection mechanism will take place in the somewhat unlikely setting of the Casino Kusaal of the small Swiss city – symbolically emphasing that one shouldn’t gamble on these issues. For
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Literary Heritage Judgment – A Novel by Apollinaire
A century after its publication in 1907, the novel Les Onzes Milles Verges (“The Eleven Thousand Rods”) by the French author Guillaume Apollinaire became the centre of a legal controversy which ended at the highest European level. Yesterday the European Court issued its judgment in
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Article on ECHR and Territorial Jurisdiction
It remains a hotly debated issue: the scope and limits of the territorial jurisdiction of the European Court. The newest issue of the European Journal of International Law (vol. 20, No. 4, 2009) contains a new contribution to this debate. Sarah Miller has written ‘Revisiting
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Article on ECHR and Homosexuality
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (volume 10, issue 1) is out (no pun intended) and contains an article by Paul Johnson of the University of Surrey, entitled ‘An Essentially Private Manifestation of Human Personality’: Constructions of Homosexuality in the European Court
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The UK, Devolution, and the ECHR
The campaign for parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom has, amongst many issues, led to a debate on whether the current Human Rights Act, which is based on the ECHR, should be replaced by a specific British Bill of Rights. The NGO Justice has published
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ECHR and France News
Last month, a new blog on the ECHR and France was started by Zeki Mardin, in the English language. It focuses on both new applications, pending ones, and follow-up of the European Court’s judgments concerning France. The intended readership is not so much academics, but
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Two Articles on EU and ECHR
As a follow-up to my recent post on possible EU accession to the ECHR, here are references to two recent academic articles on the issue, addressing some problems in diverging case-law: * Jiri Malenovsky (a judge at the European Court of Justice), ‘L’enjeu délicat de