Month: September 2011
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European Yearbook on Human Rights 2011 Published
The newest edition of the European Yearbook on Human Rights (2011) has been published. The yearbook includes a very wide range of articles on human rights, including a number on the ECHR. This is the abstract: In the human rights field, 2010 was a year
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Article on ECHR Application to Northern Cyprus
The newest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 15, Issue 6, 2011) includes an article on Northern Cyprus and the ECHR. It was written by Leonard Hammer (affiliation not provided) and is entitled “Re-examining the extraterritorial application of the ECHR to northern
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M.S.S. Judgment Echoes in Luxemburg
At the beginning of this year, the European Court of Human Rights issued its important M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece judgment, on the asylum seekers transfer system within the European Union (see my earlier report here). In summary, the Court held that asylum conditions in
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New ECHR Articles
A few new academic articles and papers concerning the ECHR have become available online. The first is an article on human trafficking entitled ‘Complementary Protection for Victims of Human Trafficking under the European Convention on Human Rights’ published by Vladislava Stoyanova in the Goettingen Journal
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Article on Pilot Judgments most downloaded on SSRN
Usually it’s difficult to assess how many people read one’s academic work. But the online open access database SSRN offers the possibility to see at least how many people download articles and thus show initial curiosity in a certain article. I am happy to note
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New Book in French on Interim Measures
A group of lawyers from the ‘Young Brussels Bar’ has published an edited collection of essays on interim measures at the European Court of Human Rights. The book is entitled ‘Les mesures provisoires devant la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme. Un référé à Strasbourg?’.
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New Vice-President and Section President
The judges of the European Court have elected a new vice-president, Josep Casadevall, the judge in respect of small Andorra. In addition, a new Section President was elected: Lech Garlicki, the judge in respect of Poland. Casadevall will serve until 31 October 2015 and Garlicki
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Article on Inflation of Margin of Appreciation
The newest issue of our own SIM-based Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (vol. 29,No.3, 2001) features an article by Jan Kratochvíl, working at the registry of the European Court of Human Rights, entitled ‘The inflation of the margin of appreciation by the European Court of
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Newest Issue RTDH
The newest issue of the Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme (July 2011, No. 87) is out now. Contents include various ECHR related articles (in French): * Antoine Garapon, ‘Les limites à l’interprétation évolutive de la Convention européenne’ Le présent article est la version écrite
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Network Neutrality and Article 8 ECHR
Bert-Jaap Koops (Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society) and Jasper P. Sluijs (Tilburg Law and Economics Center) have published a working paper on SSRN on what might to many perhaps be a surprising angle to approach the ECHR. It’s entitled ‘Network Neutrality and Privacy