Year: 2020
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Guest Post on Court President’s Visit to Turkey
Today a short guest post on the visit of the president Robert Spano of the European Court of Human Rights to Turkey, which has led to a lot of discussion in the Turkish human rights community. The Court’s President amongst others met with the Turkish…
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Special Issue ECHR and Wider International Law
The International Journal of Human Rights has published a special issue (vol. 24, issue 7, 2020) with a focus on ‘the Relationship Between the European Convention on Human Rights and Wider International Law’. Most of the articles were published online earlier on already separately (some…
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New Book on Civil Justice and European Human Rights Jurisprudence
Andrej Auersperger Matić, of the European Parliament, has published a new book with Cambridge University Press entitled ‘Just Words. The Effectiveness of Civil Justice in European Human Rights Jurisprudence‘. This is the abstract: ‘This book examines the role of the European Court of Human Rights…
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New Edition of German-Language ECHR Handbook by Mark Villiger
The newest, third edition of Mark Villiger’s famous German-language handbook on the ECHR has been published. Judge Villiger is a leading expert on the Convention and one of the Court’s former judges. The book has a special focus on cases relating to Switzerland. This is…
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The Netherlands Lodges Inter-State Complaint Against Russia
As all those following the Strasbourg system know well, the bulk of the work of the European Court of Human Rights is taken up by dealing with individual complaints. By contrast, Inter-State cases are exceedingly rare. Article 33 ECHR provides that any state party can…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new batch of recent ECHR-related publications: * Aikaterini Tsampi, ‘The new doctrine on misuse of power under Article 18 ECHR: Is it about the system of contre-pouvoirs within the State after all?’, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 38(2), pp. 134-155: ‘The case-law…
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Guest Post: Implementation of the ECtHR’s judgments – A Call for Greater Transparency
It is my pleasure to host another guest post – this time by Ewa Garbarz, who is interning at the European Implementation Network (EIN): Implementation of the ECtHR’s judgments – A Call for Greater Transparency The latest Committee of Ministers’ Annual Report on the status of execution…
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New Book on Extraterritorial ECHR Application
Conall Mallory of Newcastle University has published Human Rights Imperialists. The Extraterritorial Application of the European Convention of Human Rights with Hart Publishers. To human rights academics, the topic of this book will not be unfamiliar: entire research projects have been based on the issue of extraterritoriality…
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Miscellaneous Updates: Webinar Recordings and NGO Guide
Dear readers, two different updates relating to earlier blogposts on here: First, the recording of the very interesting webinar / public online talk of President Robert Spano, held last week, has now been put online on the iCourts website. A big thanks to the team…
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First Issue ECHR Law Review
A new academic baby is born, but one with very dedicated and experienced parents: the first issue of the new European Convention on Human Rights Law Review has now been published online (with Brill Publishers). With a number of short musings about the Court and…