Month: March 2018
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Book Review on Russia and the ECHR
It is my pleasure to introduce a guest post by Joyce Man, former legal intern at the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), reviewing the book Russia and the European Court of Human Rights – The Strasbourg Effect by Mälksoo and Benedek: Book review: Russia
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New ECHR Readings
Please find here a selection of recent academic writings on the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, ‘The practise of the European Court of Human Rights when striking out applications, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol 36, no. 1 (2018):
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The Draft Copenhagen Declaration – Comment Series VI
We close this week’s guest commentaries on the draft Copenhagen Declaration with the contribution of Sarah Lambrecht, one of the editors of the series. I thank both her and co-editor Janneke Gerards for this important initiative! Undue political pressure is not dialogue: The draft Copenhagen
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The Draft Copenhagen Declaration – Comment Series V
In this fifth episode, I am adding my own comments to the discussion on the draft Copenhagen Declaration, focusing on the role of civil society organizations. The Draft Copenhagen Declaration – What About Civil Society? Antoine Buyse, professor of human rights from a multidisciplinary perspective,
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The Draft Copenhagen Declaration – Comment Series IV
Building on the earlier contributions, in today’s fourth episode, my Utrecht colleague Janneke Gerards comments on the different roles the Courts has played and can play and how that should be reflected in the draft Declaration: The draft Copenhagen Declaration and the Court’s dual role