Year: 2014
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Christmas Break
Dear readers, with this beautiful photo of the Utrecht Dom Tower on a cold winter night, this blog is taking its Christmas break. I would like to thank all of you for all your contributions and information, especially those of the guest bloggers and commentators…
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CJEU Rules: Draft Agreement on EU Accession to ECHR Incompatible with EU Law
In what can be characterized as a legal bombshell just before Christmas, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) this week issued its long-awaited Opinion in which it held that the Draft Agreement on the Accession of the European Union to the ECHR…
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Updated Court Admissibility Guide Available
Earlier this month, the Court presented an updated version of its Practical Guide on Admissibility Criteria. This third edition is updated with case-law until 1 January 2014 and includes the procedural conditions which became stricter on that first day of 2014. The Guide is also available…
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New Book on the Convention as a Living Instrument
Professor Andreas Zimmermann of the University of Potsdam and director of its Human Rights Centre has just published an edited volume on the European Convention as a Living Instrument. The German-language book is entitled 60 Jahre Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention – Die Konvention als “living instrument” (Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag…
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Fear Speech and Conflict Escalation
As a short excursion away from the ECHR, permit me to draw your attention to an article I just published in the Human Rights Quarterly. In the article I introduce the notion of “fear speech” as a complement to the well-known notion of “hate speech”.…
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Book on ECHR and Transitions
Dr. Inga Švarca has published the book ‘The Procedure of the European Court of Human Rights Regarding Countries in Transition. The ECtHR’s Transitional Justice Cases against Latvia’, which is also her PhD dissertation obtained at the University of Hamburg. Beyond being a case study of Latvia…
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New ECHR Readings
This Autumn presents a remarkable range of ECHR-related publications in academic journals and books. Please find below an extensive selection: The newest issue of the Journal of International Criminal Justice (Vol. 12, no. 4, 2014) includes: * Helen Keller and Corina Heri, ‘Enforced Disappearance and…
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ECHR Articles in Newest NQHR
The newest issue (no. 3 of 2014) of SIM’s own Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights includes no less than three ECHR-related contributions: two articles and the column are dedicated to the ECHR: * Column: Lourdes Peroni, ‘On Religious and Cultural Equality in European Human Rights…
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Seminar on ECHR National Counter-Dynamics
On 30 and 31 October the universities of Antwerp and Leuven are co-organising a seminar entitled ‘Shifting the Convention System: Counter-dynamics at the National Level’ in Antwerp. According to the organisers, the seminar “aims to map out to what extent criticism on the European Court…
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News from SIM
Very happy to inform you that as of this week I have been appointed full professor of human rights and director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)! Last week was the formal hand-over ceremony at the occasion of the annual SIM Peter Baehr…