Year: 2013
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X v Austria Judgment
It is my pleasure once again to welcome a guest post by dr Paul Johnson of the University of York. This time he has written a guest post on this week’s judgment in X and Others v. Austria, about adoption for same-sex unmarried couples. Let…
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El-Masri Comments Roundup
It is now two months ago that the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in the case of El-Masri v. Macedonia on extraordinary rendition. This important judgment has led to a number of interesting comments and reactions. For your convenience…
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Court Reform Special Website
The Council of Europe has launched a special webpage on its site which brings together all the key documents and updates about the ongoing reform process of the European Court of Human Rights. The site was presented last week during a meeting of the Committee…
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Court Videos Available in More Languages
The Court has made new translations of its instruction videos available on its website. Fifteen new language versions have been added to the existing ones. The general information video “The Convention belongs to you” about the rights in the ECHR is now online in no…
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Two High Profile Russian Cases Coming to Strasbourg
This week, it was announced that two high-profile Russian cases have been lodged in Strasbourg, both in reaction to policies and actions by the government of Putin. The first, as several major news outlets report, is that the three members of the Pussy Riot punk…
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ECHR and EU after Lisbon
One of my colleagues here at Utrecht, Sybe de Vries (Jean Monnet Chair in EU Single Market Law and Fundamental Rights) has, together with Ulf Bernitz and Stephen Weatherill, edited a book entitled ‘The Protection of Fundamental Rights in the EU After Lisbon’ (Hart Publishing…
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New Issue of the Human Rights Law Review
The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 12, Issue 4, December 2012) is filled with articles about the ECHR and the European Court on Human Rights: * Steven Greer and Luzius Wildhaber, ‘Revisiting the Debate about ‘constitutionalising’ the European Court of Human…
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New ECHR Readings
This week brings another batch of academic writings on the European Convention. First off, the Utrecht Law Review‘s most recent issue (Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2013) includes a special thematic section on ‘EU and ECHR: Conflict or Harmony?’. Articles include (amongst others): * Sybe…
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Eweida and Others Judgment Part II – The Religion Cases
As announced earlier, here is the second part of comments on the Eweida and others v the United Kingdom Judgment. This second guest post will focus on the two cases within the judgment which are most closely tied to freedom of religion. I am very…
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Opening Judicial Year Strasbourg
Today is the formal opening of the judicial year at the European court of Human Rights. At this occasion a seminar on “Implementing the European Convention on Human Rights in times of economic crisis” is held.Yesterday, the president of the Court, currently Dean Spielmann, held…