Year: 2020
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New Book on Positive Duties to Mobilise Criminal Law under the ECHR
Laurens Lavrysen (Ghent University) and Natasa Mavronicola (Birmingham University) have co-edited the new book Coercive Human Rights.Positive Duties to Mobilise the Criminal Law under the ECHR with Hart Publishing. This is the abstract: ‘Traditionally, human rights have protected those facing the sharp edge of the criminal…
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EYHR Call for Contributions: Human Rights in Times of a Pandemic
The European Yearbook on Human Rights (EYHR) has issued a call for contributions for 2021 with a special focus on Human Rights in Times of a Pandemic. Below is the call for contributions as presented by the EYHR: Large parts of 2020 have been marked…
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Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection Now in Paperback
It is my pleasure to announce that the book professor Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir (University of Iceland) and myself (Utrecht University) co-edited a few years ago, Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection. RethinkingRelations between the ECHR, EU, and National Legal Orders, has now been published in…
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70 Years ECHR Today
Today, it is exactly 70 years ago that a small group of European states adopted, after relatively fast negotiations, a very special document that is now shortly known as the ECHR. In the photo, one can see the Ministers sitting together in the Palazzo Barberini…
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Guest Post: ‘Hate Speech’ Jurisprudence of the ECtHR through a Qualitative and Quantitative Lens
By Jacob Mchangama, Director, Justitia, Denmark and Natalie Alkiviadou, Senior Research Fellow, Justitia, Denmark The point at which free speech ends and hate speech begins has become a burning issue in an age of social media, where billions of people have access to share synchronous content on…
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Online Conference: The European Convention on Human Rights at 70
On 4 November 2020, KU Leuven in cooperation with AHRI is organizing an online conference entitled The European Convention on Human Rights at 70: Achievements, Challenges and Interactions with Legal Orders. The conference will have four panels. The first one will look at the achievements…
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ECHR Articles in Newest HRLR
The September 2020 issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 20, issue 3) has now been put online. These are the ECHR-related articles: * Mathieu Leloup, ‘The Concept of Structural Human Rights in the European Convention on Human Rights’: ‘This article introduces the concept…
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Online Conference on Covid-19 and the European Convention on Human Rights
On 16 and 17 October 2020 there will be an online conference on Covid-19 and the European Convention on Human Rights. Speakers include a long list of sitting and former judges of the European Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human…
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Guest Post: Negotiations on EU Accession to the ECHR Restart after Five Years: Between Unlikely and Doable
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of recent reading on the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Jonathan Collinson, ‘Making the best interests of the child a substantive human right at the centre of national level expulsion decisions’, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol.…