Year: 2012
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NGO Statement on European Court Reforms
The Open Society Justice Initiative has put a joint statement of a large number of NGOs online. The text reflects the concerns about the current reforms process of the ECHR. Amongst others it warns against greater latitude for governments to avoid their human rights obligations…
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Article on Margin of Appreciation by Judge Spielmann
Judge Dean Spielman, one of the section presidents at the European Court of Human Rights, has written a working paper in the series of the Centre for European Legal Studies of the University of Cambridge. It deals with the issue of the margin of appreciation,…
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Liber Amicorum Peter Leuprecht
A Liber Amicorum in honour of Peter Leuprecht, one of the grand old men of the Council of Europe, has been published with Bruylant (featuring his trademark bow tie on the cover). During his long career he was, amongst many other positions, director of the…
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New ECHR Factsheets
A number of new or updated factsheets about the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights have been released in the past two months by the Registry of the Court. These relate to the following themes: * European Union* Collective expulsions* Data protection* Detention…
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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…