Year: 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…
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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…