Year: 2012
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European Parliamentarians Welcome Resuming of EU – Council of Europe Talks
The joint informal body of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament (of the EU) hase welcomed the Committee of Ministers’ decision to resume talk on EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. In a joint press release,…
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Book and Launch on ECHR and Homosexuality
Paul Johnson of the University of York has written a book entitled ‘Homosexuality and the European Court on Human Rights’ to be published in October by Routledge. This is the abstract: This is the first book-length study of the Court’s jurisprudence in respect of sexual…
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Progress in EU-ECHR Negotiations?
As MultiRights Blog reports, the negotiations on the European Union’s accession to the ECHR seem to have reached a new phase. Last week, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Minister instructed the Steering Committee for Human Rights to pursue negotations with the EU in order…
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New Policy on Reports of Judgments and Decisions
Even though most people will use the HUDOC database these days to find cases, the sheer amount of output of the Strasbourg Court means that authoritative selections of case-law remain very valuable. The Court’s own Reports of Judgments and Decisions are the most important source in…
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The European Court and International Law
Julian Arato of New York University has published an article on the recourse to international law by the European Court of Human Rights.The article is entitled ‘Constitutional Transformation in the ECtHR: Strasbourg’s Expansive Recourse to External Rules of International Law’ and has been published in…
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New Issue NQHR
The newest issue (vol. 30. no. 2, June 2012) of the SIM-based Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights includes two articles relating to the European Convention on Human Rights. In addition, it also features an overview of new ECHR developments under ‘Human Rights News’. The two articles…
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New Articles on ECHR
A number of new academic articles on the European Convention have been published in the last few months. First, the International Journal on Minority and Group Rights includes the article ‘The Strasbourg Court and minority groups: shooting in the dark or a new interpretive ethos?’…
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HRW Expresses Concern on Selection Process Russian Judge
It had earlier escaped my attention, but thanks to a Russian colleague, I was notified that the NGO Human Rights Watch wrote a letter in April to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) regarding the selection procedure for candidates from the Russian Federation.…
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Article on ECtHR Judgments Enforcement in Russia
A group of three Russian authors, Maria Issaeva, Irina Sergeeva, and Maria Suchkova, has posted an article on SSRN on the enforcement of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights. The article, which has appeared in SUR International Journal on Human Rights (Vol.…
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Names and CVs of Candidate Judges for Eight Countries
It will be a year of renewal for the Court. In the coming time, the Parliamentary Assemble will elect judges in respect of no less than eight different countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, Sweden and the…