Year: 2015
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New Factsheets on the ECHR
In the last days before Christmas, the Court has been adding a number of new factsheets on the European Convention of Human Rights to its website. Ever since the first factsheets were published online in 2010, this very useful collection of summaries of judgments, decisions…
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Final PluriCourts Conference on Reform of ECtHR and UN Treaty Bodies
On 29 February and 1 March, the University of Oslo is organising the final conference of the large MultiRights project. This 5-year ERC-funded project investigated the legitimacy discussions around international human rights supervisory organs and the reform processes both at the UN and ECHR level.…
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Call for Papers for European Consensus Conference
On 1 June 2016, the University of Portsmouth School of Law, the European University Institute and the McCoubrey Centre for International Law of the University of Hull Law School will be organising a conference on the European consensus (EuC) method of interpretation of the European…
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65 Years ECHR – Jekyll and Hyde in Strasbourg
Exactly one month ago, on 4 November 2015, the European Convention on Human Rights had been in existence for exactly 65 years. In 1950, thirteen Council of Europe Ministers signed the treaty in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. To commemorate that special moment and all…
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Reform of the European Court – Guest Post
Dear readers, it is my pleasure to introduce another guest post by one of this blog’s regular commentators, Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, of the University of Liverpool. He has written a comment on the final report on the long-term future of the Court, an intergovernmental process in which…
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Seminar on Procedural Dialogue in the ECHR System
It is still some time away, but good to already inform you of it: on 26 January, Nijmegen University is organising a seminar at the Europe House in The Hague. The aim of the seminar, entitled ‘Procedural Dialogue in the European Convention on Human Rights…
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ECHR Readings
Please find below a selection of a number of books, articles and research papers on the ECHR which have been published in the past year (some of which I had overlooked earlier, more to follow in later posts). Enjoy reading! The newest issue of the…
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Guest Commentary on Grand Chamber Judgment Perinçek v Switzerland
On the important Grand Chamber judgment of Perinçek v. Switzerland, I am happy to introduce a guest commentary by dr Uladzislau Belavusau, an expert on freedom of expression and an assistant professor at the Free University Amsterdam. In his comment, he contextualises this Swiss case of…
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Commentary on Bouyid v Belgium
It is my pleasure to introduce a guest commentary on the Grand Chamber judgment of Bouyid v Belgium (Appl.no. 23380/09 ) of last September. The commentary was written by a colleague here at Utrecht University, dr Stephen Riley, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ethics Institute in…
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Liber Amicorum Dean Spielmann
At the occasion of the farewell of President Dean Spielmann, a Liber Amicorum has been published entitled ‘Liber amicorum Dean Spielmann. Mélanges en l`honneur de / Essays in honour of Dean Spielmann‘ by Wolf Legal Publishers. The beautiful tribute to the work of president Spielmann, available…