Year: 2012
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Telegraaf Judgment on Protection of Journalists’ Sources
Yesterday, the European Court issued its judgment in yet another case about the protection of journalistic sources in the Netherlands, and again found the country in violation of the ECHR: Telegraaf and others v. The Netherlands. I am very happy to welcome a guest post…
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New Handbook on ECHR in French
Professor Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen of Paris-I (Sorbonne) University has just published a new French-language handbook on the European Convention on Human Rights. Entitled ‘La Convention européenne des droits de l’homme’, it has been published by Lextenso Éditions. Burgorgue-Larsen is an expert in both Inter-American and European…
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HUDOC Advanced Search Tutorial
The Court has just put online a short video tutorial on the advanced search options of the recently renewed HUDOC case-law database. It explains in much more detail than the basic earlier video how one can search through the extensive jurisprudence of the Court (and…
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New ECHR Protocols and Structural National Problems
A few weeks ago, at the end of October, the Committee of experts on the Reform of the Court (DH-GDR), met again to further discuss future Protocols 15 and 16 to the Convention (see my earlier reporting here). The report of this most recent meeting…
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Article on Extraterritoriality of the ECHR
Professor Samantha Besson (University of Fribourg) has published the article ‘The Extraterritoriality of the European Convention on Human Rights: Why Human Rights Depend on Jurisdiction and What Jurisdiction Amounts to‘ in the newest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (vol. 25, issue 4, 2012).…
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ECHR Articles in the Modern Law Review
The newest issue of the Modern Law Review (vol. 75, issue 6) includes two articles on the European Convention of Human Rights. The first is an article written by Ian Leigh and Rex Ahdar entitled ‘Post-Secularism and the European Court of Human Rights: Or How God…
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New Publications on the ECHR
At the start of the month, again a short selection of articles published in various journals or online, with the Convention or Court as their subject-matter. First off, the Indiana International and Comparative Law Review includes an article by J. Heider entitled ‘Unveiling the truth behind the…
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Open Society Paper on ECHR Implementation
The Open Society Justice Initiative has drafted a paper as a kind of counterweight to all the plans and initiatives from the ECHR state parties and those from within the Council of Europe itself. The paper, entitled ‘National Implementation of the Interlaken Declaration. Perspectives of…
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Video in German about the Court
Das Erste, one of Germany’s main national public broadcasters has produced a short video about the European Court of Human Rights. The short feature (just a bit over seven minutes) in the series Ratgeber – Recht gives a short overview of what the Court is…
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New Journal with ECHR-related Articles
A brand new journal has been added to the universe of human rights periodicals: the Cyprus Human Rights Law Review. The new review, led by Leto Cariolou, of the European Human Rights Law Institute, aims to promote: knowledge, appreciation and constructive discussion on matters of human rights…