Month: September 2010
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The Conscience of Europe
As a spin-off of last year’s 50th anniversary of the Court a new book entitled grandly ‘The Conscience of Europe’ (‘La Conscience de l’Europe’ in the French version) will be published in January. A true insiders’ view on the Court’s history, with contributions of several
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Cartload of ECHR Articles
A whole cartload of journal articles, if one may say so irreverently, for all readers to enjoy this fall. It certainly reflects that the European Convention of Human Rights still enjoys a growing interest among researchers. In the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (vol. 59-3,
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Pilot Flies Back to Moscow
Last week the European Court of Human Rights issued two decisions in cases concerning the non-enforcement of domestic court judgments (Nagovitsyn and Nalgiyev) and the excessive length of national court proceedings (Fakhretdinov and Others) in Russia. The human rights complaints of the five applicants (in
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Article on ‘European Consensus’ at the Court
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, a PhD researcher at University College Dublin, has just posted a working paper on one of the more opaque aspects of Strasbourg case-law: the notion of a European consensus : ‘Consensus from within the Palace Walls’. The innovative aspect is that his findings
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Introduction to the ECHR by the Council of Europe itself
Council of Europe Publishing has just published a book which functions as a basic and very short (87 pages) introduction to the ECHR: ‘The Council of Europe and human rights – An introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights’, authored by Martyn Bond. This
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Grand Chamber Judgment on Protection of Journalists’ Sources
This week the Grand Chamber of the European Court reversed an earlier Chamber judgment in the case of Sanoma Uitgevers B.V. v. the Netherlands. The Grand Chamber found, unanimously, a violation of article 10 ECHR. The judgment can be seen as a reinforcement of the
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Positive Obligations in a Democracy
Rory O’Connell of Queen’s University Belfast has written an article for the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (Vol. 61-3, 2010, pp. 263-279) on positive obligations under the right to free elections (article 3 of the first Protocol to the ECHR). The article, entitled ‘Realising Political Equality:
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Just Satisfaction Practice
The awarding of just satisfaction and the supervision of the execution of the Court’s judgments in these matters is not always very clear to outside observers. A memorandum prepared by the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (DG-HL)
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Case Note on Sejdic and Finci
Marko Milanovic (University of Nottingham) has written a case note on the case of Sejdic and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina for the American Journal of International Law (vol. 104, 2010), which he has also published on SSRN. The case, on which I reported here,
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Article on Interim Measures
The newest issue of our own Utrecht-based Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights has just been published (vol. 28, nr. 3, 2010). It includes an article on interim measures, comparing the experiences of the European and Inter-American human rights systems, authored by my friends Yves Haeck