Month: August 2011
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Upcoming Liber Amicorum Judge Rozakis
Bruylant Publishers has announced that it will publish, in November, a liber amicorum dedicated to the retiring Greek judge Rozakis. The bilingual book has been edited by Dean Spielmann, Marialena Tsirli and Panayotis Voyatzis and is entitled ‘La Convention européenne des droits de l’homme, un
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Book on Hindrances to Individual Petition
Professor Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad of the University of Strasbourg has written ‘Preventing and sanctioning hindrances to the right of individual petition before the European Court of Human Rights’(Intersentia 2011). This is the abstract: Whereas it is common today to focus on the overwhelming backlog of
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Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda Case Note
The ever-productive Marko Milanovic of the University of Nottingham has posted a dual case note article on Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda on SSRN, entitled ‘Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda in Strasbourg’. It will not be published in print until 2012 in the European Journal of International Law, but
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ECHR as a Cosmopolitan Legal Order
Alex Stone Sweet (Yale University) has posted a working paper on ssrn entitled ‘A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Constitutional Pluralism and Rights Adjudication in Europe’. The paper deals with the ECHR as a cosmopolitan legal order. This is the abstract: The European Convention on Human Rights
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ECHR Articles in Newest HRLR
The most recent issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2011) includes a number of articles relating to the European Convention on Human Rights: * Dominic McGoldrick, ‘Religion in the European Public Square and in European Public Life—Crucifixes in the
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My New Book on Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR
It is my great joy to announce that a book edited by my good friend Michael Hamilton (Central European University & Ulster University) and myself, entitled ‘Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR. Justice, Politics and Rights’ has just been published by Cambridge University Press. After three
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Summer Harvest of Academic Articles
Please find below the “summer harvest” of academic articles published about the European Convention on Human Rights in the past few months in a wide variety of academic journals, in no particular order: * M. Milanovic, ‘Applicability of the ECHR to British soldiers in Iraq’,
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Filtering Section at Court
More news that might have escaped attention during the summer: the Court itself reports that its new filtering section, set up in the wake of Interlaken and Protocol 14, to assign in the most efficient way incoming applications to the right formation of judges, seems
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Article on Judicial Tactics in the European Court
Shai Dothan of Tel Aviv University has written an article entitled ‘Judicial Tactics in the European Court of Human Rights’ which has been published in the Chicago Journal of International Law (vol. 12, no. 1, 2011, p. 115) and is available for free on SSRN.
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New Book on European Court Between Law and Politics
Jonas Christoffersen and Mikael Rask Madsen, of the Danish Institute for Human Rights and of the University of Copenhagen respectively, have edited the book ‘The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics’, now published by OUP. This is the abstract: The European Court