Month: October 2011
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Today: Seminar on Bridging the Implementation Gap
As a very late announcement, but maybe of interest to those living in the Netherlands: The Netherlands Helsinki Committee, formerly focusing mostly on the OSCE, is today organising a seminar on implementation problems and the ECHR. It is entitled ‘Bridging the Implementation Gap – Enlarging
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Article on Same-Sex Partners and ECHR
The Child and Family Law Quarterly (vol. 23, No. 1) includes an article entitled ‘Families But Not (Yet) Marriages? Same-Sex Partners and the Developing European Convention ‘Margin of Appreciation’ by Nicholas Bamforth of the University of Oxford. This is the abstract: This commentary examines two
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Guide on Admissibility Criteria Translated
The Courts’ Practical Guide on Admissibility Criteria, launched at the end of last year, already existed in the Court’s working languages English and French. This week, the Guide has been made available in Italian, German, Greek and Bulgarian. Hopefully, up-to-date Russian, Romanian and Turkish translations
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Report on ECHR and Cypriot Property Issues
The PRIO Cyprus Centre, the Cypriotic branch of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, has published an online report with recommendations on how to move forward in the Cyprus property issue. The report was written by Rhodri Williams, a forced displacement and property restitution expert, and
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Country Profiles on the Court’s Website
This week the European Court of Human Rights took a new step in making its activities more known. The website of the Court now includes country profiles about all state parties to the ECHR. The profiles include a list of previous and current judges in
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Newest Issue of German Law Journal dedicated to ECHR
The newest issue of the respected online German Law Journal (vol 12. No. 10, 2011) is entirely dedicated to ECHR issues. The articles are based on papers presented at University College Dublin in April of this year at a conference entitled “The Legacy and Future
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Article on Islam, Secularism and the ECHR
The newest issue of the Michigan Journal of International Law (vol. 32-4, 2011) includes an article on the ECHR, entitled ‘Islam in the Secular Nomos of the European Court of Human Rights’ written by Peter G. Danchin of the University of Maryland. sine it contains
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New Academic Articles on the ECHR in French
The newest issue of the Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme has been published (No. 88, October 2011). It includes the following ECHR-related articles: * Dean Spielmann, La reconnaissance et l’exécution des décisions judiciaires étrangères et les exigences de la Convention européenne des droits de
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More Administrative Autonomy for the Court
Earlier this week, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted resolution CM/Res(2011)9, which amends the Staff Regulations with regard to delegation of staff management powers to the Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights. The resolution enables the delegation of certain
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New Book on Positive Obligations and the ECHR
A new book has been published with Routledge by Dimitris Xenos (of the European Public Law Organisation in Athens)entitled ‘The Positive Obligations of the State under the European Convention of Human Rights’. This is the abstract: The system of the European Convention of Human Rights