Year: 2013
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Debate on Lautsi in ICON
The newest issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON, vol. 11, issue 1, 2013) includes a debate on the famous Lautsi judgments of the European Court on allowing a crucifix in classrooms (see my post on the Grand Chamber judgment here). Three different…
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‘Casse-toi, pauv’ con’ Satire Judgment
The former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has a reputation for being very direct and blunt. In a famous encounter at the annual ‘Salon de l’Agriculture’ in France a few years ago, when one of the visitors refused to shake his hands and said he did…
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New and Updated Case-Law Factsheets
The case-law factsheets of the Court have been updated and extended. In addition, translations in French, Russian, German, Polish, and Turkish are available on the Court’s website. Please find a list below of those factsheets which have been updated in the past half year (arranged per…
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Article on the Haas Judgment on Facilitating Suicide
Daniel Rietiker, working at the registry of the European Court of Human Rights, has published an article on the Haas case in the Harvard Human Rights Journal (vol. 25, 2012) entitled ‘From Prevention to Facilitation? Suicide in the Jurisprudence of the ECtHR in the Light of…
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New Article on EU Accession to ECHR
Christina Eckes (University of Amsterdam) has published ‘EU Accession to the ECHR: Between Autonomy and Adaptation’ in the Modern Law Review, Vol. 76, Issue 2 (2013) pp. 254-285. This is the abstract: After the European Union’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights the…
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New Articles on ECHR
A new batch of academic writing related to the Convention and the Court: * A. Berkaw, ‘Presumed guilty: how the European Court handles criminal libel cases in violation of Article 6(2) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms’, Columbia Journal…
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Court on Twitter
Informing the general public as well as practitioners and experts of its work has been at the forefront of the Court’s attention in the past few years. This week, the European Court of Human Rights has added another dimension to this by joining the social…
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New Articles in EHRLR
The news issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (2013, 1) includes a wide range of articles and case notes about the ECHR and the European Court. Please find an overview below: Normal 0 21 false false false NL X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions…
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ECHR Articles in Upcoming Issue of HRLR
Two articles for the upcoming edition of the Human Rights Law Review have been put online on its site as a preview: * Janneke Gerards, ‘The Discrimination Grounds of Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights’ The Court’s case law on the applicability…
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Horváth and Kiss Judgment on Roma Education
Recently, the European Court issued another judgment on education for Roma: Horváth and Kiss v. Hungary. The judgment, amongst others, established that states need to address structural disadvantages caused by past discrimination through positive measures. It is my great pleasure to introduce a guest post…