Month: August 2014
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New Book on EU Accession to the ECHR
In Hart’s Legal Publishing series on Modern Studies in European Law, Vasiliki Kosta, Nikos Skoutaris and Vassilis Tzevelekos have published the edited volume The EU Accession to the ECHR. This wide-ranging volume includes over twenty chapters, a few of which were published in a slightly…
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New ECHR Readings
Here is another selection of recent academic writings on the European Convention of Human Rights. The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 14, no. 3, September 2014) has been published. Its contents include: * Robert Spano, ‘Universality or Diversity of Human Rights?:…
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New Edition of Jacobs White & Ovey ECHR Handbook
This summer also witnessed the publication of a new version of one of the other widely used handbooks about the ECHR: Jacobs, White & Ovey, The European Convention on Human Rights. This revised sixth edition was edited by Benadette Rainey (Cardiff University), Elizabeth Wicks (University…
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New Edition of ECHR Handbook Harris Warbrick and O’Boyle
As announced last week in a guest post, the newest, third edition of the classic Harris, O’Boyle and Warbrick, Law of the European Convention of Human Rights has been published with OUP by Harris, O’Boyle, Bates, and Buckley. It is always an enormous endeavor to…
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Fact Sheet on Gender Identity Issues Updated
The Court has put online a fully updated factsheet on gender identity issues, with the subtitle ‘from the Rees case to the Christine Goodwin case’ referring to the gradual shift over the years – often used in teaching about the Convention – in the Court’s views…
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Putting the Potential UK Withdrawal from the ECHR into Perspective
Nowhere in Europe does the discussion about the legitimacy (beyond government circles, which in any state party might be unhappy with the Court’s judgments at times) of the Strasbourg system seem to be so intense as in the United Kingdom. It is my pleasure to…
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New Book on Equality in European Human Rights Law
Charilaos Nikolaidis has published a new book on equality with Routledge. It is entitled ‘The Right to Equality in European Human Rights Law. The Quest for Substance in the Jurisprudence of the European Courts’. This is the abstract: A right to equality and non-discrimination is…
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New ECHR Readings
With the Court issuing its newest judgment today in a group of cases on British prisoner voting rights (violation found but judgment itself as sufficient just satisfaction, so no monetary award) the very short Strasbourg summer hiatus in issuing judgments – less than one and…
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Violation of Religion Rights in Hungary Judgment
Back from the summer break, I am starting off with guest post of one of the regular contributors to the ECHR blog, professor Renáta Uitz of Central European University. She has written an extensive commentary to shed light on the Court’s religious registration case Magyar Keresztény Mennonita…