Month: April 2022
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Mykola Gnatovskyy Elected New Judge in Respect of Ukraine
On 26 April 2022, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected Mykola Gnatovskyy as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ukraine. His term of of office of nine years will commence not later than three months after his election.
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New Issue ECHR Law Review
The ECHR Law Review has just published online its newest issue (vol. 3. issue 2). It contains an editorial note, book review, notes and articles on such topical issues as the war in Ukraine, inter-State applications, mandatory vaccination, to name a few. * Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou and Vassilis
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New Handbook on European Law related to the Right of the Child
In the collaborative series between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), a new updated version has been published in open access of the Handbook on European Law related to the Right of the Child. The compilers describe the handbook
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Sterilization of Transgender People: A Worrying Judgment of the Czech Constitutional Court
By Pavel Doubek* On 31 March 2022, the Czech Constitutional Court (CC) quashed the constitutional complaint of an applicant who asked to change her birth registration number to align with her gender identity and contested several provisions of Czech law on account of alleged unconstitutionality
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Call for Abstracts: The Value(s) of the European Convention on Human Rights
On 8 and 9 September 2022, Birmingham Law School and PluriCourts will host a workshop on The value(s) of the European Convention on Human Rights. Here is the call for abstracts: The European Convention on Human Rights gives expression to – and establishes – a community of
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New Book: Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights
There is a new open access edited volume on the Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights (Nomos, 2022). The book was edited by Stephanie Schiedermair, Alexander Schwarz and Dominik Steiger. Here is a brief abstract. “This edited book brings you a
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New Book on a Constitutionalist Approach to the ECHR
Lisa Sonnleitner of Karl-Franzens University Graz has published the new monograph A Constitutionalist Approach to the European Convention on Human Rights. The Legitimacy of Evolutive and Static Interpretation with Bloomsbury Publishers. This is the abstract of the book: ‘This book presents a new constitutional argument for the
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Execution of the European Court of Human Rights’ Judgments – Major Advances and Challenges
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