Month: November 2018
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Guest Blog on Grand Chamber Judgment in Navalnyy v Russia
A key judgment on Article 18 ECHR was delivered earlier this month by the Court’s Grand Chamber, Navalnyy v Russia. I am happy to announce a guest commentary on this judgment by Floris Tan, PhD researcher at Leiden University. He is one of they experts on
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Call for Papers 60 Years of the European Court of Human Rights
The University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre has launched a call for papers for its annual Student Human Rights Conference, geared towards postgraduate students. The theme of this 20th edition of the conference, to be held on 29 March 2019, is ‘The European Court
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Guest Blog : Minimalist Compliance in the UK Prisoner Voting Rights Cases
It is my pleasure to introduce another guest blog to you – this time by Andreas von Staden of the University of Hamburg. He has made an insightful analysis of Strasbourg’s prisoner voting rights cases from the perspective of implementation, building on the findings of his recent
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Book on ECHR as Tort Law
Stefan Somers (Free University Brussels) has written a new book on a less often studied aspect of the ECHR system – its use as tort law. The book, published with Intersentia, is entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights as an Instrument of Tort Law’.