Year: 2017
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ESIL – European Court Conference on Migration
Pre-announcement: the European Society for International Law and the European Court of Human Rights will co-organise a one-day conference on ‘Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights’. The conference will take place on Friday 6 October 2017 at at the Court in Strasbourg. The…
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MOOC on the ECHR Open for Registration
After its very successful first airing, with over 5000 participants at the end of last year, we will again run our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) starting next week 13 February. Registration is open now! To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC…
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Conference on Principled Resistance Against European Court Judgments
Professor Marten Breuer of the Law School of the University of Konstanz in Southern Germany is organising a conference entitled “Principled Resistance against ECtHR Judgments – a New Paradigm?”. It will take place in the town hall of Konstanz on 1 and 2 June and…
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The Court in 2016: Overview
At his annual press conference today, the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Guido Raimondi, presented an overview of the Court’s work over the past year. The most important issues: in 2016, for the first time after a two-year decrease, the number of…
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New Judges in respect of the Netherlands and Hungary
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected two new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. For the Netherlands, judge Jolien Schukking was elected. Judge Schukking was preferred over two other similarly very well-qualified Dutch ECHR experts, professors Rick Lawson and…
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Guest Post on Grand Chamber Judgment in Hutchinson
As the first post of the new year on the ECHR Blog, it is my pleasure to introduce a guest post by Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou of the University of Liverpool on this week’s Grand Chamber judgment on life sentences without parole in the case of Hutchinson…