Month: October 2013
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Case Law Comments
Here is a small overview of recent online case comments on a few of Strasbourg’s most recent judgments. First off, on the I.B. v. Greece judgment a comment by my new Utrecht colleague Alexandra Timmer. The case related to HIV-based employment discrimination. Secondly, a number
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Headway Made in Reducing Backlog of Cases
To state that the European Court of Human Rights has a backlog of cases has become a mantra and a cliché. It has been used both to pity and to attack the Court. Both to criticise and to advise it. Relatively unnoticed, although the Court’s
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Seminar on the European Court of Human Rights in the Press
This coming Thursday, 24 October, a seminar is being organised at the European Court on the press that the Court is getting, a different aspect of the freedom of expression! It will address how the Court and its judgments are portrayed in the press and
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ECHR Short Course for Professionals in London
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New Academic and Online ECHR Articles and Comments
I am happy to announce that my article ‘The Pilot Judgment Procedure at the European Court of Human Rights: Possibilities and Challenges’, which was published in 2009 in the Greek legal journal Nomiko Vima, has now been translated into Ukrainian and re-published in the Ukrainian
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New ECHR Commentary
Professor Christoph Grabenwarter of the Vienna University of Business and Economics has published his extensive commentary (600 pages) on the ECHR in English now with Hart Publishing. The book is entitled ‘The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms A Commentary‘.
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New ECHR-Related Papers on SSRN
A number of new papers on the ECHR have recently been put on the Social Science Research Network. Here is a short overview: Normal 0 21 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0cm
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German Yearbook of International Law Contributions on ECHR
0 The newest edition of the German Yearbook of International Law / Jahrbuch für Internationales Recht (2012) has now been published. Its extensive contents include a whole range of articles about the European Convention on Human Rights and the Court’s case-law. Here are the titles
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Protocol 16 ECHR Opened for Signature
This week, Protocol 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights was opened for signature in Strasbourg. The Protocol which introduces the possibility for the highest national courts to ask the European Court for an advisory opinion is a product of the ongoing reform process
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New Judge Elected in Respect of Romania
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected a new judge in respect of Romania, Iulia Motoc. She was elected with an overwhelming majority of 132 out of 149 votes cast. Interestingly, one of the two other candidates was no other than Tudor