Month: February 2011
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TV Programme on the European Court
Following the controversy in the United Kingdom on the Court’s judgments on voting rights for prisoners, the BBC programme ‘The Record Europe’ has dedicated an episode to the European Court of Human Rights. It explains the controversy and the role and functioning of the Court.
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Article on Pilot Judgments in EHRLR
Stuart Wallace of the University of Nottingham has published an article on the pilot judgments at the European Court in the newest issues of the European Human Rights Law Review (No. 2011) pp. 71-81. It is entitled ‘Much ado about nothing? The pilot judgment procedure
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Dutch Short Videos on Key ECHR Rights
A collection of short videos explaining, through the real-life cases of Dutch people, the significance of a number of key ECHR rights is available online (including the right to liberty, the freedom of expression and the right to a fair trial). The videos were developed
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Transitional Jurisprudence and ECHR Book
How does the European Court of Human Rights deal with issues of transitional justice? What effect do transitions in European states have on Strasbourg case-law and how does Strasbourg jurisprudence affect transitions from authoritarian rule and protracted conflict to democracy and peace? These are some
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Two New Papers on ECHR on SSRN
In the last few weeks two new papers relating to the European Convention on Human Rights have been posted on the Social Science research Network (SSRN). Wouter P. J. Wils, connected both to the European Commission and to King’s College London, has posted ‘EU Antitrust
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Alarming Rise in Requests for Interim Measures
The number of applications might be on the rise in Strasbourg, but the number of requests for interim measures has seen an even sharper increase: a rise of 4000 % in the last four years. If this were a company, the shareholders would be jubilant,
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Controversy over Prisoners’ Right to Vote in UK: Guest Blog
Dear readers, it is my pleasure to announce a guest blog by Ed Bates, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Southampton. He recently published an extensive history of the European Court of Human Rights, on which I reported here. His guest blog addresses
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Election of ECtHR Judges Information Sheet
The Secretariat of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly has prepared an information document entitled ‘Procedure for electing judges to the European Court of Human Rights’. Apart from providing a succinct overview of the procedure itself,
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Overview of ECHR Articles in Journals
The monthly overview of human rights journal articles, compiled by the documentalists of my home base, the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) again contains a range of ECHR-related articles: First, in several issues of the Goettingen Journal of International Law. Recently: * B. Bowring,
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Book on ECHR and Marginalised Groups
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers has published the book ‘The European Court of Human Rights and the rights of marginalised individuals and minorities in national context’, edited by Dia Anagnostou and Evangelia Psychogiopoulou. They are both research fellows at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy