Month: July 2011
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Summer Break
Dear readers, I am taking a summer break. No posting for the coming weeks. I will be back in the second half of August. Enjoy your summer, with or without the European Convention!
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Factsheet on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
For those who like summertime puzzles, the Court has now published a factsheet on its website on “Extra-territorial jurisdiction of ECHR States”. It contains the most important decisions and judgments on extraterritoriality of the ECHR of both the former Commission of Human Rights and the…
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Strasbourg Consortium on Freedom of Conscience and Religion
As a particular niche for Strasbourg watchers, let me refer you to a anotehr website: the Strasbourg Consortium. It is a network of academic institutions interested in the issue of freedom of conscience and religion at the European Court of Human Rights. It has regular…
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Working Paper on Interim Measures
My friends and colleagues Yves Haeck, Clara Burbano Herrera, and Leo Zwaak (of Ghent and Utrecht University) have just posted a working paper on SSRN on the issue of interim measures of the European Court, on which they are specialists. The paper is entitled “Strasbourg’s…
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New Articles on ECHR
The most recent issue of the Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal is out now (vol. 3, Nos. 1-2, 2010). It includes a number of articles that directly relate to the European Convention on Human Rights. These are: * Marc Bossuyt, ‘Judges on Thin Ice:…
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Paper on Rozakis’ Separate Opinions
George Letsas of University College London has posted a working paper on SSRN on the separate opinions of Greek ECtHR judge Rozakis. It’s entitled ‘Judge Rozakis’s Separate Opinions and the Strasbourg Dilemma’. This is the abstract: Separate opinions in the European Court of Human Rights…
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Swiss Minaret Decisions
Ever since 2009 when the Swiss people voted, through a referendum, to include in their Constitution a general ban on building minarets, it was to be expected that the European Court of Human Rights would be called upon sooner or later to express itself on…
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Long Awaited Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda Judgments Delivered
Today, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered its long awaited judgments in the cases of Al-Skeini and others v. the United Kingdom and Al-Jedda v. the United Kingdom. The first case concerned civilians killed during British security operations in Iraq.…
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New Academic Articles on ECHR
Please find below a new batch of ECHR-related readings for the summer: * J. Lapitskaya, ‘ECHR, Russia, and Chechyna: two is not company and three is definitely a crowd’, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, vol. 43, No. 2 (2010/2011) pp. 479-548.…
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Nicholas Bratza Elected Court President
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights elected Sir Nicholas Bratza as its new president. When the term of the current president, the French judge Costa, ends at the beginning of November, Bratza will succeed him in that position. The 66-year old Bratza is by…