Year: 2022
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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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New Factsheet on the Implementation of ECHR Cases Concerning Domestic Violence
Last week, the Council of Europe’s Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has published a new thematic factsheet on cases related to domestic violence. Here is a brief description: The present factsheet provides examples of general and individual measures reported by States in
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New Issue ECHR Law Review
The newest issue of the ECHR Law Review has just been published (vol. 3. issue 1). A number of its articles are dedicated to the special theme of the ECHR and climate change. These are the substantive articles and introductory editorial (some of which are
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ECHR Continues to Apply for Russia Until 16 September 2022
The European Court has made public today its decision about the date until when the Russian Federation, after having been ousted from the Council of Europe last week, is bound by the ECHR: 16 September 2022. The decision, adopted by the plenary Court yesterday (22 March), thus
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Political Salvation of Europe’s Human Rights System? The Case for a Fourth Council of Europe Summit
By Andrew Forde Russia ceased to be a Member State of the Council of Europe with immediate effect on 16 March 2022 in the context of the procedure launched under Article 8 of the Statute of the Council of Europe (CoE). The Committee of Ministers