Year: 2022
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New Book on Environmental Rights and the European Court
Natalia Kobylarz (Senior lawyer at the registry of the European Court of Human Rights) and Evadne Grant (Associate Lecturer at the University of the West of England) have co-edited and just published the book, which is also a special issue of the Journal of Human Rights
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MOOC on ECHR Starts Again on 7 September
Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR is starting again this week, on 7 September. 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
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New Book on Effective Domestic Remedies and the European Court of Human Rights
Michael Reiertsen has published the monograph Effective Domestic Remedies and the European Court of Human Rights: Applications of the ECHR Article 13 with Cambridge University Press. Here is the abstract: ‘In Malone v. UK (Plenary 1984), the right to an effective domestic remedy in the
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Conference on Effective Application of ECHR in Areas of Conflict in Europe
On 1 September, the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the School of Law at NUI Galway are hosting a conference on the topic of Lighting the Shade: Effective Application of ECHR in Areas of Conflict in Europe. The conference will take place in person
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Lawyers’ Associations Now Also Explicitly Allowed to Make Rule 9 Submissions
The Council of Europe’s communications department has reported a small but significant change in the practice surrounding the supervision of implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Under the so-called Rule 9 of the Rules of the Committee of Ministers for the supervision of
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New Book on the Right to Property in the ECHR
Douglas Maxwell has published the monograph The Human Right to Property. A Practical Approach to Article 1 of Protocol No.1 to the ECHR with Hart Publishing. This is the abstract: ‘This book provides a highly detailed, practical analysis of Article 1 of Protocol No.1 (A1P1)
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New Book on Immigrants and the European Court of Human Rights
Amanda Spalding of Canterbury Christ Church University, in the United Kingdom, has published the new book The Treatment of Immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights. Moving Beyond Criminalisation, with Hart Publishing. This is the abstract: “This book looks at how the European Court of
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The Range of Solutions to the Russian Cases Pending before the European Court of Human Rights: Between ‘Business as Usual’ and ‘Denial of Justice’
By Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, University of Liverpool Exactly in a month time, on 16 September 2022, Russia will no longer be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR or Convention). The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) will have no jurisdiction
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One Judge, Three Questions Video Series
Earlier this week, the new judge in respect of Ukraine (on which we reported earlier here) was sworn in at the European Court of Human Rights: Mykola Gnatovskyy, former member and president of the European Committee Against Torture. For the Court itself, this was also the
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Opening of the Judicial Year
Last week, on 24 June, the formal opening of the judicial year of the European Court of Human Rights took place in Strasbourg. The dual event, slightly deferred due to the pandemic, started with a seminar for judges of Europe’s highest courts on the apt topic of ‘Human