Year: 2020
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Guest Post on the European Court, Domestic Oversight of COVID-19 Emergency Measures, and Procedural Rationality
It is my pleasure to introduce a guest post commenting a specific aspect of the current COVID-19 pandemic: how the European Court of Human Rights could foster oversight within ECHR state parties by using procedural rationality. It was written by my SIM colleague Kushtrim Istrefi…
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Online Talk by Robert Spano on Judicial Independence
In a very nice collaboration, the research centre iCourts in Copenhagen and Verfassungsblog are organising an online public talk on Friday 29 May at 14h00 CET by the new President of the European Court of Human Rights, judge Robert Spano. The topic wil be judicial independence.…
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Updated CoE HELP Course on Introduction to the ECHR
The HELP programme (Human rights Education for Legal Professionals) of the Council of Europe has launched a revised version of its free online course that provides an introduction to the ECHR. This is the announcement: ‘The 47-nation Council of Europe has launched an updated version…
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Factsheet on ECtHR Judgments and Constitutional Reform
One of the most contentious and difficult legal consequences of a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights is when not (just) an adjustment of national policy or ordinary law is concerned, but when it necessitates a change in a state’s constitution. It is…
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EIN Webinar on Effective Domestic ECHR Implementation
The European Implementation Network is organising a webinar on 19 May on the issue of civil society on domestic advocacy for the implementation of Strasbourg Court judgments, at the occasion of a new guide produced by the network. This is the official announcement: ‘The European…
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ECHR MOOC Starts Again on 4 May
Virtually all teaching has switched to online delivery globally in these times of pandemic. One of our ongoing efforts in this regard is the free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR starting again on Monday 4 May. Registration is open now! To enroll,…
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Robert Spano New President of the Court
This week, the European Court of Human Rights has elected judge Robert Spano to become its new President. Spano has been a judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Iceland since 1 November 2013. Previously, he was President of Section (1…
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New Book on ECHR and International Judicial Review
In these highly exceptional circumstances, with the highest simultaneous number of derogations from the ECHR ever recorded since its creation and the Court just having prolonged the exceptional measures for its continued functioning until at least halfway June, things are anything but business as usual.…
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An Analysis of Covid-19 Responses and ECHR Requirements
Dear readers, it is my pleasure to introduce to you a guest post by Jeremy McBride, an esteemed colleague of mine in the Council of Europe’s Expert Council on NGO Law, as well as a lawyer representing victims in many important cases before the European…
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Measures Related to Corona and European Court of Human Rights Proceedings and Derogation from the ECHR
The Corona pandemic has since this week also directly started to have effects on international human rights mechanisms. The European Court of Human Rights has now announced it is taking a number of exceptional measures to respond. Just like in many other work places across…