Month: May 2011
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The Economist’s View on the Court
Charlemagne, the European columnist of the Economist wrote an Op-Ed earlier this month on Europe’s two highest Courts: Supreme muddle – Europe’s highest courts can be annoying, but they do more good than harm. The gist of the article is that even though the two,
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Article on Children’s Right to be Heard
Aoife Daly of Trinity College Dublin has written an article on the rights of children in legal proceedings, entitled ‘The right of children to be heard in civil proceedings and the emerging law of the European Court of Human Rights’. It was published in the
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ECHR and Human Rights Violations in Chechnya
The Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, in its December 2010 issue, includes an article on remedies offered by the European Court to victims of the armed conflict in Chechnya. The article, written by Kirill Koroteev of the University of Strasbourg, is entitled ‘Legal Remedies
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The Court and Changes at the Domestic Level
What is the effect of the European Court’s rulings on other countries than the one in the specific case at hand? An intriguing question not only of legal theory, but especially of practice. A political scientist and a legal scholar have joined forces to make
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Kant and the Convention
Although Immanuel Kant’s home town of Kaliningrad, formerly Königsberg, falls within the territorial ambit of the European Convention, who would have thought that the famous philosopher’s ideas could be relevant in assessing the national implementation of the ECHR? Mads Andenas of the University of Oslo
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Documents on EU Accession to the ECHR
With the negotiations between the European Union and the state parties to the ECHR in full swing about the accession of the EU to the European Convention, the “Informal Group on Accession of the European Union to the Convention” has a specific page on the
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Case Note on Humanitarian Law and ECHR
It might be an unexpected place to look for it, but the newest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (vol. 10(1), 2011, 129-140) includes a case note by Eriko Tamura of Kansai University in Japan entitled ‘The Isayeva Cases of the European Court
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More Documents and Info on Izmir
For all information on the Izmir high level conference (of two weeks ago) on the European Court of Human Rights, a special website can be consulted here. It includes speeches of the key speakers as well as the final declaration which includes the adoption of
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Article on ECHR and Right to Reputation
Stijn Smet, PhD researcher at the University of Ghent, published an article on ECtHR defamation jurisprudence entitled ‘Freedom of Expression and the Right to Reputation: Human Rights in Conflict’ in the American University International Law Review (Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 183-236). This is the
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Report on Legitimacy of the ECtHR
Yesterday, the report ‘The Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Right’s: The View from the Ground’ was presented in Strasbourg’. The research for the report was undertaken by Basak Çali, Anne Koch and Nicola Bruch, political scientists of University College London. The report presents