Month: November 2021
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Online Training on Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence and the ECHR
The European Implementation Network is organising a free online training on 16 December on the topic ‘Combatting violence against women and domestic violence by supporting the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights’. It is aimed at practitioners and will be held in
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New Book: Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights
Stevie Martin (University of Cambridge) has published a book titled Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights (Routledge). On 4 November, the book won the Yorke Prize – an annual award of the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge for a
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Call for Contributions: European Yearbook on Human Rights 2022
The European Yearbook on Human Rights has issued a call for contributions for its 2022 issue. The Yearbook publishes mostly about the European Convention on Human Rights and the Council of Europe. It also contains sections on human rights in the European Union, the Organisation
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Just Satisfaction Awarded by the Court : Statistics
The Execution Department, which supports the Committee of Ministers in monitoring the execution of the Court’s judgments by the states, has recently expanded the factsheet webpages per country. They now also include the amounts of just satisfaction that the Court has awarded to victims of violations of the
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Guest Post: Turning Water into Wine – The Concealed Metamorphosis of the Effective Control Extraterritoriality Criterion in Carter v. Russia
By Vassilis Tzevelekos and Antal Berkes (University of Liverpool) Introduction On 21 September 2021, the Third Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) rendered its judgment in the case of Carter v. Russia. The case is named after the
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New Book: Responsive Human Rights – Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR
Corina Heri (University of Zurich) has published a book titled Responsive Human Rights: Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR (Hart, Bloomsbury Publishing). The book is available in open access here. Here is the abstract of the book: “Who is a vulnerable person in human rights law? This important