Year: 2021
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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…
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40 Years Dudgeon Judgment
Today, it is exactly 40 years since the issuing of the famous Dudgeon v the United Kingdom by the European Court of Human Rights. To mark the occasion of this landmark judgment, the Council of Europe has published a video and an article which looks…
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New Issue ECHR Law Review
The newest edition of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2021) is a special issue dedicated to ‘The Council of Europe’s Responses to the Decay of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Protections’. It has been co-edited by…
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ECHR Articles in Newest NQHR
The newest edition of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR, volume 39, issue 3) includes two new academic articles related to the ECHR: * Dimitrios Kagiaros, ‘Reassessing the framework for the protection of civil servant whistleblowers in the European Court of Human Rights’: ‘The…
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ECHR Symposium: Human Rights in the Digital Sphere
On 18 October 2021, the European Court of Human Rights, in collaboration with Japan and US consulate generals in Strasbourg, the René Cassin Foundation and Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law of the Council of Europe, are hosting a hybrid symposium on…
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PACE Committee Proposes a New Protocol to the ECHR on the Right to a Healthy Environment
This month, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is exploring different ways to tackle climate crisis through rule of law and human rights reforms. Here is a brief summary of PACE’s ongoing activities in this regard: “PACE’s Social Affairs Committee is urging…
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New Thematic Factsheet on the Rights of LGBTI Persons
The Department for the Execution of Judgments of the ECHR has issued a new thematic factsheet on the execution of the Strasbourg Court judgments concerning the rights of LGBTI persons. Here is a brief summary of the factsheet: “According to the European Court of…
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ECHR MOOC Starts Again on 7 September
Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR is starting again on 7 September 2021. Registration is open now! To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies – An introduction into the ECHR’ is taught…
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Applying to the Court Information Pages
The Court has revamped and extended its pages on how to apply to Strasbourg. The information for applicants is now available in no less than 36 languages, with its entry point here. For each version, such as for example the English-language one, the page contains information…
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Guest Post on Trans Parenthood in A.M. and Others v Russia: Breaking New Grounds?
By Alice Margaria, Senior Research Fellow, Department of ‘Law and Anthropology’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Introduction On 6 July 2021, the Court ruled that depriving a trans mother of contact rights with her children and restricting her parental rights on the…