Month: February 2012
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Draft Declaration on British ECHR Reform Plans Leaked
The French and English versions of the draft of the so-called ‘Brighton Declaration’ (the seaside city where state parties to the ECHR will meet in April to discuss reforms of the Court and the Convention) have been leaked after the UK government refused to publicly
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Handbook on Monitoring ECHR Judgment Implementation
Translated editions of the handbook ‘Monitoring the Implementation of the Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights’ are now available online in German, Croatian and Turkish. The book, written by Basah Cali and Nicola Bruch of University College London, is meant for practitioners “finding
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New ECHR-related Articles
The newest edition of ‘current contents on human rights’ of my home base SIM (Netherlands Institute of Human Rights at Utrecht University) include a number of academic publications related to the ECHR: * A. Wiesbrock, ‘The right to family reunification of third-country nationals under EU
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Boat Migrants Grand Chamber Judgment
Yesterday, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered judgment in an important case about one of the most topical migration issues: irregular migrants intercepted in the Mediterranean by ECHR state parties. In the case of Hirsi Jamaa and others, the Court
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Call for Papers EU – ECHR
The Surrey School of Law and the Surrey European Law Unit (SELU) have issued a call for papers for an interdisciplinary workshop entitled ‘A Europe of Rights: the EU and ECHR’. It will be held on 8 and 9 June. This is the call: This
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Newest Issue of HRLR
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 12, issue 1, March 2012) is out now and includes a number of ECHR-related articles. First, the article ‘Argentoratum Locutum: Is Strasbourg or the Supreme Court Supreme?’ by Baroness Brenda Hale, justice of the Supreme
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Anti-Gay Speech Judgment
In the recent case of Vejdeland and others v Sweden the Court for the first time issued a ruling on offensive speech in relation to sexual orientation. The case centered on the conviction of four men who had entered a secondary school and circa 100
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New Documents on Selection of Judges and Reform Measures Requiring ECHR Amendments
Two important documents of the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee on Human Rights (CDDH), where much of the preparations for reforms happen, have been put online. The first are ‘Draft Committee of Ministers’ Guidelines on the selection of candidates for the post of judge at
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Paper on Compliance with ECtHR Judgments
Andreas Von Staden of the Department of Political Science of the University of St. Gallen has posted a paper on SSRN on conmpliance with the European Court’s rulings, entitled ‘Rational Choice within Normative Constraints: Compliance by Liberal Democracies with the Judgments of the European Court
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Seminar in London on the European Court
Next week, on Wednesday 22 February a seminar on the European Court of Human Rights will be organised at Europe House, Smith Square, Westminster in London. The seminar is entitled ‘Some issues around Reform of the European Court of Human Rights’. This is the programme: