Month: March 2012
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Committee of Ministers Adopts Guidelines on Selecting European Court Judges
Yesterday, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted Guidelines on the selection of candidates for the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights. The guidelines address the first step in electing judges: the national selection procedures. Earlier, in 2010,
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Paper on Reparations in Torture Cases in Strasbourg
Professor Bill Bowring of Birbeck College of the University of London has posted a working paper on SSRN on Strasbourg’s practice of reparations in torture cases. It is entitled ‘What Reparation Does a Torture Survivor Obtain from International Litigation? Critical Reflections on Practice at the
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Part of FIDE 2012 Dedicated to EU – ECHR Relationship
From May 30 to June 2, 2012 Tallinn will be the host city of the Congress of the International Federation of European Law (FIDE). This will be the 25th time that the biennial FIDE Congress is serving as a common forum for European legal scholars
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Dutch Supreme Court President’s Views on the European Court
Earlier this month, the President of the Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad), Geert Corstens, and one of his staff, Reindert Kuiper, published their views on the problems the European Court is facing in a short article in the Dutch review of jurists (Nederlands Juristenblad). I
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Guest Post on Austin and Others Grand Chamber Judgment on ‘Kettling’
Last week was a week full of important judgments from the European Court. One of the main Grand Chamber judgments concerned a demonstrator and some passers-by who were held in a police cordon for several hours during a protest against globalisation in London: Austin and
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New Joint NGO Statement on Draft Brighton Declaration
Following an earlier open letter, the same group of leading human rights NGOs has published a new joint statement with further comments: ‘Joint NGO input to the ongoing negotiations on the draft Brighton Declaration on the Future of the European Court of Human Rights’. The
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Working Paper on ECHR as Living Instrument
George Letsas of University College London has posted a working paper on the evolutive interpretation of the ECHR on SSRN. The paper is entitled ‘The ECHR as a Living Instrument: Its Meaning and its Legitimacy’. This is the abstract: The idea that the ECHR is
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Seminar on European Court and Doctrine
The International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg is organising a seminar on 10 and 11 May entitled ‘La Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme et la Doctrine’ (The European Court of Human Rights and Doctrine). The seminar will be held in the Court’s building
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Aksu Grand Chamber Judgment – short guest post
Today the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights issued its judgment in the case of Aksu v. Turkey on stereotypes about Roma in state-sponsored books and dictionaries. As in the earlier Chamber judgment, no violations of the Convention were found. My colleague
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Conference on Ternovszky Judgment
On 31 May and 1 June the Hague University of Applied Sciences and Bynkershoek Institute’s Research Center for Reproductive Rights are organising a conference on the consequences of the European Court’s judgment in Ternovzsky v. Hungary on the right to give birth at home. The