Month: January 2012
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Video on Admissibility Criteria
In its continuing quest to better inform citizens of the possibilities and limits of the European human rights protection system, the Court has launched yet a new tool: a short youtube movie which in about three minutes – and with the generous support of the
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The Court’s Annual Report 2011
Today, at the opening of the judicial year in Strasbourg, the Annual Report and an overview of facts and figures for 2011 were presented. This includes a table of violations (by country). It reveals that the top five of countries against which judgments were issued
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Once in a Generation?
Yesterday, Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom – which is currently chairing the UK – addressed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The main part of the speech concerned the European Court of Human Rights. Cameron packed his by now well-known
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PACE Resolution on Authority and Effectiveness of ECHR
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted the report ‘Guaranteeing the authority and effectiveness of the European Convention on Human Rights’, on which I earlier blogged here in November. The accompanying resolution (No. 1856) calls, as by tradition one can almost
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And More New ECHR Publications
And yet another batch of new ECHR-related books and articles. The first is a book on freedom of expression and minorities, written by colleague and friend Tarlach McGonagle of the University of Amsterdam. Its entitled ‘Minority Rights, Freedom of Expression and of the Media: Dynamics
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Report Wilton Park on Future of European Court
Last November, a big conference was held at Wilton Park in the United Kingdom. It was an international informal discussion meeting between national judges and parliamentarians, state representatives, Council of Europe and Court offocials and civil society experts on discussing the future of the European
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New Working Paper on Margin of Appreciation
Paul Gallagher, associated to the University College Dublin, has posted a working paper on the Court and the margin of appreciation on SSRN. It’s entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights and the Margin of Appreciation’. This is the abstract: The debate as to whether
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Articles in EHRLR
Three issues of the European Human Rights Law Review of 2011 (on which issues I did not yet report) include a number of articles on the European Convention on Human Rights. Here is an overview. In issue 3: * Sophie Briant, Dialogue, diplomacy and defiance:
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Blog on ECHR and Poland
The ever-expanding blogosphere, specifically the one on human rights, has a new offshoot: Etpcz Blog, a blog on the European Convention on Human Rights in Polish. The blog was created two months ago by Robert Rybski of Warsaw University. Its aim is to cover Polish
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New Academic ECHR Publications
At the start of the new year a very wide range of articles and publications on the European Convention and the European Court (see the overview below). A very good year to all readers! * Yonatan Lupu and Erik Voeten, ‘Precedent in International Courts: A