Month: July 2013
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Blog Summer Break
The European Court of Human Rights has updated the case-law page of its website (and I am not talking about the search engine HUDOC here). This page now includes the regularly updated Reports of Judgments and Decisions, a selection which permits outsiders to see which
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Book on NHRIs with ECHR Chapter
The book edited by Katrien Meeuwissen and Jan Wouters (both at Leuven University), entitled National Human Rights Institutions in Europe Comparative, European and International Perspectives has now been published. It includes my chapter ‘The Court’s Ears and Arms: National Human Rights Institutions and the European Court of Human
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ECHR Readings
With temperatures in much of Europe rising higher, here is a new batch of ECHR-related readings. The new edition of the Human Rights Law Review includes two ECHR-related articles: * Giulio Itzcovich, ‘One, None and One Hundred Thousand Margins of Appreciations: The Lautsi Case’ * Ingrid
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Asylum Seekers from Iraq Judgments
It is my pleasure to introduce another guest post on the blog, by expert colleague on migration law, Maarten den Heijer, on the European Court’s recent Iraq asylum cases: Court: Christian asylum seekers from Iraq can internally relocate Maarten den Heijer, assistant professor of international
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Three Important Judgments of this Week
As the Court (and this blog) are moving towards summer recess, let me highlight three important judgments the European Court of Human Rights delivered this week (every time with the press release summary of the Court itself – the first two are Grand Chamber judgments):
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New Book on Pilot Judgment Procedure
A new book on the Court’s pilot judgment procedure has been published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. It is entitled ‘The Pilot-Judgment Procedure of the European Court of Human Rights’ and was written by Dominik Haider of the University of Vienna. This is the abstract of the book:
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New ECHR Academic Articles
The newest update of human rights “current contents” (June 2013), from a very wide range of academic sources, has been put online by our SIM documentation team. The articles specifically related to the European Convention and the European Court include: * F. Dorssemont, ‘The right to
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Article on Environmental Litigation at the ECtHR
Riccardo Pavoni of the University of Siena has posted a paper on SSRN entitled ‘Public Interest Environmental Litigation and the European Court of Human Rights: No Love at First Sight‘. The paper will be published later on in: F. Lenzerini & A.F. Vrdoljak eds., International Law for Common
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Article on Margin of Appreciation and Environmental Law
The newest issue of Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 2, Issue 2, July 2013) includes an article on the margin of appreciation and environmental law. The article, by Chris Hilson of the University of Reading, is entitled ‘The margin of appreciation, domestic irregularity and domestic court rulings
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New Book on European Court Criticisms
Spyridon Flogaitis, Tom Zwart, and Julie Fraser have edited the book ‘The European Court Of Human Rights And Its Discontents. Turning Criticism into Strength’ which has just been publsihed with Edward Elgar Publishing. This is the abstract: The European Court of Human Rights has long been