Year: 2010
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Article on Predicaments and Challenges of the European Court
The 2009 volume of the German Yearbook of International Law features a contribution by Michael O’Boyle, deputy registrar at the European Court, & John Darcy, entitled ‘The European Court of Human Rights: Accomplishments, Predicaments and Challenges’, pp. 139-180. For those interested in comparative approaches, the…
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New Journal Articles on ECHR
Summer brings a range of new articles on the European Convention and the European Court in various academic journals on human rights. The newest Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 10-3, 2010) includes: * Alastair Mowbray, ‘The Interlaken Declaration—The Beginning of a New Era for the…
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Militant Democracy, Religion, and the ECtHR
Patrick Macklem of the University of Toronto has posted ‘Guarding the Perimeter: Militant Democracy and Religious Freedom in Europe’ on SSRN. It covers the case law of the European Court of Human Rights concerning the religion-state nexus. This is the abstract: This essay tracks the…
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Court Statistics Halfway 2010
The Court has published two documents (a pie chart and a table) which provide a snapshot of the current state of applications at the Court. The snapshot was taken exactly halfway the year, on 30 June 2010. As the table shows the majority of pending…
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Article on Subsidiary Character of ECHR – Lithuania as Case Study
The newest issue of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law has been published (Volume 9, 2009). It includes an article on the relation of the European system of human rights protection to national jurisdictions by Danutė Jočienė, entitled ‘The Subsidiary Character of the System of…
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Article on ECtHR and Non-Monetary Relief
The newest issue of the Harvard Human Rights Journal (vol. 23, no. 1, 2010) features an article by Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton of American University Washington College on Law, entitled ‘The power of the European Court of Human Rights to order specific non-monetary relief: a critical appraisal…
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Less Than 1 Euro Not a Significant Disadvantage
The European Court is continuing to make clear that it will use the new criterion of a lack of a significant disadvantage for applicants (introduced by Protocol 14 ECHR) to declare cases inadmissible. In a July decision in a case called Korolev v. Russia, the…
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Legitimacy of Human Rights Review at the ECtHR
Professor Andreas Føllesdal of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights has posted ‘The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Review: The Case of the European Court of Human Rights’ on SSRN. The article, published in the Journal of Social Philosophy (Vol. 40-4, 2009, pp. 595-607) assesses…
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New: Irish Human Rights Law Review
Earlier this year, a new journal was launched: the Irish Human Rights Law Review. In a way it is a kind of yearbook since it will be published once a year. This is what the first editorial says about the review: A necessary part of…
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Book on National Judicial Treatment of ECHR
A new book on the use of the ECHR by national judges, in a comparative perspective, also with EU law, has been published: ‘The National Judicial Treatment of the ECHR and EU Laws’ (Europa Law Publishing 2010). A Comparative Constitutional Perspective’. It was co-edited by…