Month: June 2010
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Special Issue Greek Law Journal on ECHR
A special issue of the Greek Law Journal “Nomiko Vima” has just been published online with a range of articles celebrating last year’s fifth decade of existence of the European Court of Human Rights. With over twenty contributions, mostly in English, some in French, from
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First Decision on Lack of a Significant Disadvantage
On the very day of the entry into force of Protocol 14, 1 June 2010, the Court immediately seized the opportunity to start using a new key admissibility criterion introduced by that Protocol, as a press release of the Court highlights this week. In the
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Article on ECHR and Abortion
Shannon Calt has just posted a comment on the upcoming ECHR decision in A, B, and C v. Ireland, a case on abortion. The article, entitled ‘A., B. & C. v. Ireland: ‘Europe’s Roe v. Wade’?’ was published in the Lewis & Clark Law Review
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ECtHR Judgment: States not Obliged to Allow Homosexual Marriages
In a key judgment issued today, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on a complaint of a homosexual couple in Austria who were denied the right to marry. Although very recently (January 2010) Austria created the possibility to enter into a Registered Partnership for
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New ECHR Academic Articles
Three new ECHR-related articles have recently been published. The first is authored by Nadezhda Purtova and has just been published in our own Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Vol. 28, No. 2, 2010, pp. 179-198). It is entitled ‘Private Law Solutions in European Data Protection:
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New German and Maltese Judges Elected
Yesterday the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected two new judges to the Court. With respect to Germany, the new judge will be Angelika Nussberger, currently law professor at the University of Cologne. The new Maltese judge will be Vincent Anthony De Gaetano,
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Rendition Case to be Heard in Strasbourg
The case of the former terrorism suspect Khaled El-Masri is due to be considered in Strasbourg by the European Court of Human Rights, according to the Open Society Institute who is supporting his case. El-Masri was arrested by Macedonia in 2003, held incommunicado for over
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Procedure for Electing Judges at the Court
The secretariat of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly has issued a document on the ‘Procedure for Electing Judges to the European Court of Human Rights’. It is a handy summary of all the rules and developments on the
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Judgment on Non-Religious Education in Poland
Human rights in classrooms – it seems to be a topic of increasing popularity (or concern) in Strasbourg these days. Yesterday, the Court issued its judgment in the case of Grzelak v. Poland. The case concerned a Polish boy who refused to attend reilgious education
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Article on Right to Individual Petition
Astrid Kjeldgaard-Pedersen of the University of Aarhus has just posted ‘The Evolution of the Right of Individuals to Seise the European Court of Human Rights’ (forthcoming in the Journal of the History of International Law) on SSRN. This is the abstract: In at least two