Month: March 2010
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New ECHR Articles on SSRN
In the last few weeks a number of papers and articles relatign to the ECHR have been posten on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), which makes them freely available. Here are a few of the notable ones: * Anne Peters, ‘The Applicability of the
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Blood Transfusion HIV Judgment
The European Court has ordered Turkey to pay lifetime medical coverage to a teenager infected with HIV. The case, Oyal v. Turkey, was decided last week. It concerned a boy born in 1996, who was given blood transfusions for medical reasons right after birth. A
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UK Parliamentary Report on Judgment Implementation
One of the bottlenecks in the whoel ECHR system is the rapid and effective implementation of the European Court’s judgments by domestic juridictions. Indeed this has been labelled by many as one of the main areas in which improvement is needed. In that context it
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More on EU Accession to the ECHR
Last week the European Parliament held a hearing on the future accession of the European Union to the European Convention of Human Rights. A number of experts addressed the meeting. The speech of Serhiy Holovaty of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly can be found
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Article on Symbolic Legal Personhood
Yofi Tirosh of Tel Aviv University has just posted a paper online entitled ‘A Name of One’s Own: Gender and Symbolic Legal Personhood in the European Court of Human Rights’. This is the abstract: Legal regulation of surnames provides a fascinating venue for examining how
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Book on ECHR and Northern Ireland
Oxford University Press has just published a book on the role of the European Convention on Human Rights in Northern Ireland: Brice Dickson’s ‘The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland’. This is the abstract: This book provides the first comprehensive
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Roma Education Grand Chamber Judgment in Orsus
Today, the Grand Chamber of the Court delivered its judgment in the case of Oršuš and Others v. Croatia. It found that the separate education of many Roma children in several Croatian towns (in one school most Roma were put in separate classes, in another
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Article on FMG, the Netherlands and the ECHR
My Utrecht colleague from the institute of criminal law, Renée Kool, has just published ‘The Dutch approach to female genital mutilation in view of the ECHR. The time for change has come’ in the latest issue of the Utrecht Law Review (Vol. 6, No. 1,
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Article on Continuing Violations
My colleague Yves Haeck, together with A. Van Pachtenbeke of Ghent University, have authored an article on continuing violations and the ECHR. It has been published in the most recent issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (see also two posts below on that)
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Key Judgments of Last Week
Let me highlight here three key judgments and decisions the Court delivered last week. The first is the judgment of Kozak v. Poland on the rights of homosexuals. The Court held that a blanket exclusion of persons living in a homosexual relationship from succession to