Month: April 2016
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The Russian Response to the Prisoner Voting Judgment
The voting rights of prisoners under the European Convention on Human Rights continue to be the object of debate in some countries – whereas in others it is not an issue at all, one may add. In this context, much attention usually goes to the
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Conference on Prisoner Voting Rights and the ECHR
The University of Liverpool, in cooperation with the Council of Europe and the PluriCourts project, is organising a two day workshop on one of the most contested ECHR-related issues in the UK: ‘Challenges to Implementing the Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: Dialogues
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Conference on European Consensus
The School of Law at the University of Portsmouth, the European University Institute (EUI) and the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool are co-organising a conference on the European consensus (EuC) method of interpretation of the European Court of Human Rights. The
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Video on Admissibility Criteria
In an effort to increase the understanding of how the application system in Strasbourg works, the Court is constantly increasing the number of information tools. Of course, there is the ‘Practical Guide on Admissibility Criteria‘, an online text with comprehensive information. To complement this, the
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a number of new readings on the European Convention of Human Rights, the Court, and its case-law: * B.M. Oomen, ‘A serious case of Strasbourg-bashing? An evaluation of the debates on the legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights in the
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Guest Post: Grand Chamber Judgment Bédat v Switzerland
At the end of last month, the Grand Chamber of the Court issued its judgment in the case of Bédat v. Switzerland on journalism and investigative secrecy in criminal cases. One of our regular guest bloggers, professor Dirk Voorhoof of Ghent University, has written a critical