Month: October 2016
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Massive Open Online Course on the ECHR launched!
Dear ECHR Blog readers, it is my particular pleasure to announce that today, here at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University, we are launching a Massive Open Online Course on the European Convention on Human Rights. The formal title is ‘Human
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Book on ECHR and Democratic Change in Central and Eastern Europe
Cambridge University Press has published a book edited by a current and a former judge of the European Court of Human Rights, Julia Motoc and Ineta Ziemele, entitled ‘The Impact of the ECHR on Democratic Change in Central and Eastern Europe. Judicial Perspectives‘. Judge Motoc
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Call for Papers ECHR and EU Law
On 17 and 18 March 2017, the University of Nicosia on Cyprus is organising a conference entitled ‘The Inter-relationship between the European Convention on Human Rights and European Union Law’. It is now inviting submissions through a call for papers. The conference coincides with the
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The Role of Human Dignity in ECHR Case-Law
Last week, I delivered a keynote speech at a multidisciplinary conference organised by the Ethics Institute here at Utrecht University. The conference was the closing event of a large project on human dignity as the foundation of human rights. My lecture went into the concept
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Two New Judges Elected
Last week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected two new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. In respect of Azerbaijan Mr Lətif Hüseynov was elected. And in respect of Macedonia, the assembly elected Mr Jovan Ilievski. Both have been elected for
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PhD Workshop on the Role of the European Court of Human Rights
On the 22nd to 24th February 2017, the Research Group of Constitutional and European Law at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona will be organising a workshop entitled ‘The role of the European Court of Human Rights in the Community of Final Interpreters‘. The international workshop
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New Video on the European Court of Human Rights
Today, the European Court of Human Rights has launched its new short film (length around 15 minutes) on its work on the website. This is what the Court itself says about this new, very improved version of its short documentary about its work: “A new
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New Book on Positive and Negative Obligations under the ECHR
Laurens Lavrysen (Ghent University) has just published a new book on the classic concept of positive obligations under the ECHR. The book is published with Intersentia Publishers and is entitled ‘Human Rights in a Positive State. Rethinking the Relationship between Positive and Negative Obligations under