Month: December 2011
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Christmas Break
The end of the year is approaching. 2011 was a very eventful year for the European Court of Human Rights. Apart from issuing important case-law, it has also come under intense criticism in some state parties and new reforms to increase its efficiency are again
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Research Reports of the Court
In the course of this year, the registry of the European Court of Human Rights has published a number of so-called ‘research reports’ online. In the form of succinct handbooks they provide analytical information on the Court’s case-law on a (sofar) restricted number of themes:
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New ZaöRV Articles on ECHR
The newest issue of the Zeitschrift for ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, also known as the Heidelberg Journal of International Law (vol. 74, no. 4, 2012) has just been published. It includes two articles relating to the European Convention on Human Rights: * Matthias Klatt,
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Lord Irvine’s Take on the ECHR
Last Wednesday, Lord Irvine of Lairg, the ‘architect’ of the Human Rights Act, delivered a lecture at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law adding to the discussion on the ECHR in the United Kingdom. The lecture is entitled ‘A British Interpretation of Convention
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ECHR Implementation in Central and Eastern Europe
Frank Emmert, of the School of Law of Indiana University, has posted the findings of an upcoming book (‘The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Central and Eastern Europe’, Eleven International Publishing, 2012) on SSRN in a paper entitled ‘The Implementation of
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Op-Ed on European Court
Emma Bonino (member of the Italian Senate and former European commissioner) and James Goldston (executive director of Open Society Justice Initiative) have added their voices to the debate about the European Court of Human Rights. In an Op-Ed published in the online journal European Voice
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Paper on National Judicial Treatment of the ECHR
Giuseppe Martinico, of the Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales in Madrid and the European University Institute in Florence, has posted a paper on the differences and similarities between EU and ECHR law in national legal orders. It is entitled ‘The National Judicial Treatment of
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Important Housing Rights Judgment
What to do when one buys a house or an apartment in good faith, but it later on expires that the original owner had acquired it by fraud? To what extent should the interests of the new bona fide owner then be protected? These questions
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Immunity of Judges in Practice
The question of the immunity of judges arose in Strasbourg in the past two months in the context of a search of the Romanian house of judge Corneliu Bîrsan, one of the Court’s longest-serving judges (since 1998). The direct reason was that the wife of
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Admissibility Checklist
Today, the Court launched yet another tool to make sure no clearly inadmissible applications are lodged in Strasbourg: an admissibility checklist. Whereas previous efforts were focused to a large extent on lawyers, this new initiative is aimed at the applicants themselves. In the Court’s own