Year: 2014
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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…
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Summer Break
This blog is taking a summer break. No posting in the weeks to come. I will be back in August and wish all of you who have it too a very good summer!
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below an overview of recent and less recent (but not yet mentioned on this blog) literature on the European Convention and the European Court of Human Rights: * N. Bratza, ‘Living instrument or dead letter – the future of the European Convention on…
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Election of Judges and Independence of the European Court of Human Rights
To increase the quality and precision of its work in the election of new judges to the Court, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has created a special committee. This committee will consist of twenty members and meet behind closed doors in order…
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Six New ECHR Case-Law Fact Sheets
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights has added six new factsheets to its growing collection (now around fifty) of accessible, thematic overviews of its own jurisprudence. The full list of factsheets can be found here, with some factsheets being available in other languages…
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Book on ECHR in National Case-Law
Janneke Gerards and Joseph Fleuren of Radboud University Nijmegen have just published a book on the different ways in which national courts have dealt with the ECHR and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights in their own jurisprudence. The book entitled ‘Implementation…
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Report on Reinforcing the Court’s Independence
Rapporteur Boriss Cilevičs, a member of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly from Latvia, has written a report aimed to support and further strengthen the independence of the European Court of Human Rights. The report reads, in its first part, as a concise introduction to the theme…