Month: December 2021
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Last post of 2021: Covid, Architects and Spaghetti Monsters
Dear readers, as another Covid-19 year slowly grinds to a halt, this is the last post of 2020, as this blog will take a Winter break. For the European Court of Human Rights this was another challenging year, with what we could call the start
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Academic Freedom in Turkey before the Strasbourg Court: A Third Party Intervention by a Coalition of Academic Interveners
This week a coalition of academics, including this blog’s editors, has submitted a third party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in the so-called ‘Academics for Peace’ cases. The background of these cases is the following: in the wake of the failed coup d’état
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New Book: Framing a Convention Community
Cedric Marti of the University of Zurich has published a book entitled Framing Convention Community: Supranational Aspects of the European Convention on Human Rights (with Cambridge University Press). Here is the book abstract: ‘The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has evolved from an international
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Secretary General Inquires on the Situation in Poland: A Test for Poland and Article 52 ECHR
On 24 November 2021, the Polish Constitutional Court issued a ruling that challenged both the authority of the European Court of Human Rights to decide on the lawfulness of appointment of judges in national courts, and the standards of fair trial under the Convention. In
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New Book on the ECtHR and European Public Order
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou of the University of Liverpool has just published a new book with Cambridge University Press, entitled Can the European Court of Human Rights Shape European Public Order? It is available as print book and in electronic version. This is the abstract: ‘In this book, Kanstantsin