Month: January 2011
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Book on European Court in Facts and Figures
The Council of Europe has just published a new book on ‘The European Court of Human Rights – Facts and Figures’. The book, available in both English and French, forms a kind of snapshot overview of the Court’s work, including all kinds of handy charts
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Conscience of Europe Book Launched
This week the book ‘The Conscience of Europe. 50 Years of the European Court of Human Rights’ is launched in Strasbourg. This is not so much a book directed at academics or lawyers – though certainly also of interest to them – but to a
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New Portuguese Judge at the Court
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected a new judge for the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Portugal: Mr Paulo Sérgio Pinto de Albuquerque. His term of office will start after 5 Febuary 2011 and will last nine
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The Life of an Application
To be found on the website of the European Court of Human Rights: a clear and handy flowchart of the ‘life of an application’, from the moment a dispute begins at the national level, all the way through proceedings at the Court in Strasbourg and
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Dublin II Grand Chamber Judgment – Expulsion within EU
Today, the Grand Chamber issued a key judgment on expulsion of an Afghan national from Belgium to Greece and found violations of human rights by both countries in the case of M.S.S. v Belgium and Greece. The judgment is bound to affect the practice of
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States Not Obliged to Assist Persons Wishing to Commit Suicide
Today, the Court decided in the case of Haas v. Switzerland (judgment in French only) that the right to private life is not violated when a state refuses to help a person who wishes to commit suicide by enabling that person to obtain a lethal
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Article on Court After Interlaken
In the wake of last year’s Interlaken reform summit, discussions have started again about the core functions of the European Court of Human Rights. A recent working paper by Fiona de Londras of University College Dublin, later to be published in the Irish Human Rights
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New Book on History of European Court of Human Rights
Before I specialised in human rights law, I studied history. I was therefore especially happy to see the recent publication of the book ‘The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights. From Its Inception to the Creation of a Permanent Court of Human Rights’
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Two New Electronic Articles on the ECHR
Recently, two ECHR-related articles have been published on SSRN. First, this is ‘Nordic Constitutionalism and European Human Rights – Mixing Oil and Water?’, authored by Jaakko Husa of the Law Faculty of the University of Lapland. This is the abstract: This article seeks to make
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Fribourg Conference on ECHR after Protocol 14
The University of Fribourg in Switzerland is organising a conference on May 4 of this year entitled “The European Court of Human Rights after Protocol 14 – Preliminary Assessment and Perspectives”. Speakers include former European Court judges Lucius Caflisch and Luzius Wildhaber and academics and