Year: 2013
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Book on Constitutional Relevance of the ECHR
Giorgio Repetto has just published an edited volume with Intersentia entitled ‘The Constitutional Relevance of the ECHR in Domestic and European Law. An Italian Perspective’. This is the abstract: In recent years the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) gained unexpected relevance in the European…
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ECHR Articles in Liber Amicorum Pieter van Dijk
A liber amicorum for the recently retired Dutch jurist Pieter van Dijk, also a former judge at the European Court of Human Rights, has been published with Intersentia. It is entiteld ‘Fundamental Rights and Principles. Liber Amicorum Pieter van Dijk’ and includes the following directly ECHR-related…
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New ECHR Publications
Please find below another batch of new academic articles on the European Convention of Human Rights: * E. Brems and L. Lavryse, ‘Procedural justice in human rights adjudication: the European Court of Human Rights’, Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1 (2013) pp. 176-200. *…
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New Book Constituting Europe
Next month, the book ‘Constituting Europe. The European Court of Human Rights in a National, European and Global Context’ will be published by Cambridge UP. It was edited by Andreas Follesdal, Birgit Peters, and Geir Ulfstein. It especially looks at multilevel issues of interaction of the Court with…
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Tymoshenko Judgment – Former Ukranian Prime Minister Arbitrarily Detained
Today, the Court issued its judgment in the very sensitive case of Yuliya Tymoshenko, the currently detained former prime minister of Ukraine. Tymoshenko’s predicament has already led to political tensions within Ukraine, obviously, but also between Ukraine and other countries (as well as the EU).…
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PACE Approves Draft Protocol 15
Today, just before the start of the weekend, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved Draft Protocol 15 to the ECHR. With a large majority it voted in favour. Without any amendment being necessary in the view of PACE, the Draft Protocol…
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Seminar on ECHR and Detention Conditions
The Academy of European Law (ERA) is organising a seminar in Strasbourg on 20-21 June on ‘The European Convention’s, European Court of Human Rights’ and national courts’ roles in improving conditions related to detention.’ The seminar will analyse the roles of the European Convention on…
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Animal Defenders International v. UK Grand Chamber Judgment – Ban on Political Advertising Upheld
At the start of this week, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights upheld the United Kingdom’s ban on political advertising for TV and radio in Animal Defenders International v the United Kingdom. The NGO Animal Defenders International had been refused permission…
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Russian Version of Court’s Anniversary Book Presented
Earlier this week, the Russian translation of the Court’s anniversary book (which dates from two years ago – see here) was presented. It will be distributed to 5,000 local judges and prosecutors in Russia. Symbolic as this may be, more important for practice is a…
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New Case Law Developments in Removal and Extradition
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights issued two judgments and an important decision, all dealing with state-enforced transfer of people from one state to another. One case is about the extradition of a suspected criminal to the United States, another about the extradition…