Year: 2016
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Guest Post: NGO Views on Protocol 16
It is my pleasure to present a guest post by Jennifer Babaie, a litigation fellow with the Open Society Justice Initiative. The note reflects the core points that a number of human rights NGOs submitted to the Court on the new Protocol 16, also known as the…
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Oxford Commentary on the ECHR
Oxford University Press has published a new Commentary on the European Convention on Human Rights, by William Schabas (Middlesex and Leiden). The book is part of the great series of Oxford Commentaries on International Law. The volume of more than 1300 pages covers the Convention and…
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Event on European Court and the UK
The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, part of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and the University of Leicester are organising an event entitled ‘The Rule of Law, The European Court of Human Rights and the UK: A New Court for…
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Our New Book on European Human Rights Protection
It is my great pleasure to announce the publication, today, of a co-edited by book professor Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir (University of Iceland) and myself (Utrecht University) on what we have dubbed the shifting gravities of the protection of human rights in the triangle: European Union, European…
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Offensive Online Comments – New ECtHR Judgment
Earlier this month, the European Court delivered what can be seen as its first post-Delfi judgment on offensive online user-generated content. It is my pleasure to present a guest blog with critical comments on this case by Dirk Voorhoof and Eva Lievens of Ghent University: ECtHR…
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ESIL and ECtHR Conference on ECHR and Crimes of the Past
On Friday 26 February, the European Society of International Law (ESIL) together with the European Court Human Rights will organise a conference on ‘The European Convention on Human Rights and the Crimes of the Past‘. The conference will be held in Strasbourg, at the premises…
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Book on Procedural Dialogue in the ECHR System
Earlier this week I had the privilege to participate as one of the external examiners in the public defense of the PhD of Lize Glas at Nijmegen University. She has written a very structured, clear, and thorough study on ‘The Theory, Potential and Practice of…
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Report on Impact of ECHR at National Level
The Legal Affairs and Human Rights Department of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly has prepared an overview document dealing with positive examples of impact of the European Convention within States Parties. The report, entitled ‘Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights in States Parties:…
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Book on Domestic Application of the ECHR
Eirik Bjorge of Oxford University has published Domestic Application of the ECHR. Courts as Faithful Trustees with Oxford University Press. This is the book’s abstract: Domestic courts are entrusted with the application of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as faithful trustees of the…
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Recent ECHR Readings
Some more ECHR readings: the most recent issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 15, no. 4, December 2015) includes: * Natasa Mavronicola, ‘Crime, Punishment and Article 3 ECHR: Puzzles and Prospects of Applying an Absolute Right in a Penal Context’ * Matthew Saul,…