Month: November 2016
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Conference on the European Court and Media Freedom
On 24 March 2017, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, supported by the Council of Europe, will organsie a conference on media freedom in Strasbourg. The conference, entitled “Promoting dialogue between the ECtHR and the media freedom community”. will be held in the
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MHB v Hungary Judgment on Access to Information
It is my pleasure to introduce a guest post in the form of a commentary by professor Renata Uitz of Central European University. She has written a commentary on the recent case of Magyar Helsinki Bizottság v. Hungary, on which the European Court issued its judgment
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Conference on ECHR and Regional Implementation Challenges
On 8 and 9 December, the Council of Europe, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania, and the European Humanities University are co-organising a conference entitled ‘Regional Challenges in Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights‘. The conference will take place at the premises
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European Court Awarded Treaties of Nijmegen Medal
Today, the European Court of Human Rights is being awarded the Treaties of Nijmegen Medal 2016. The medal is awarded every two years to key actors committed to European development. It commemorates the signing of a number of treaties known as the Peace of Nijmegen which
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New Book on ECHR and Human Rights Theory
Long past are the days when the ECHR was only of interest to legal scholars. A recent book by researcher Alain Zysset, a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, with both a background in international politics and philosophy –
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New Network on European Human Rights Implementation
A key new network has been put together over the past few months, by academics and civil society, to work towards better implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments: the European Implementation Network. In the words of its founders, its mission is “to build