Month: January 2023
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Annual Press Conference of the President of the ECtHR
On Thursday 26 January 2023, the President of the ECtHR Síofra O’Leary held a press conference during which the Court’s activities and statistics for 2022 were presented. President O’Leary began the conference by stating that the year 2022 was marked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its
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Expert Workshop on Climate Change, Human Rights and ECHR
On 14 April 2023, the European University Institute (EUI) is hosting an expert workshop in Florence on Climate Change Cases before Human Rights Courts and Treaty Bodies. The workshop, organized by the Law Department of the EUI together with the PluriCourts Centre of Excellence of the
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New Icelandic and Danish Judges Elected
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected two new judges to the European Court of Human Rights, in respect of Denmark and Iceland. The new Danish judge will be Anne Louise Haahr Bormann. she has professional experience in working
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Webinar on Ukraine v. Russia before the European Court of Human Rights
On 1 February, the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität (Kiel) will hold an online seminar entitled “Of Parties, Third Parties, and Treaty Intertretation: Ukraine v. Russia before the European Court of Human Rights“. The speakers include Isabella Risini and Justine Batura.
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New Handbook on the ECHR
Mark Villiger, former judge at the European Court of Human Rights and professor emeritus at the University of Zürich, has just published a new Handbook on the European Convention on Human Rights with Brill. It is oriented towards practice and covers both the organisation of the Court itself, procedural and substantive
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New Book on Combating Hate Speech During Electoral Processes
The Council of Europe has published the new book Toolkit on combating hate speech during electoral processes. Here is a brief summary: ‘Freedom of expression is enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights and protects citizens from interference with their right to freely express their
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New Book: Taxation at the European Court of Human Rights
Robert Attard (EY and University of Malta) and former ECtHR judge Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque (the Catholic University of Portugal) have published a book entitled Taxation at the European Court of Human Rights. Here is an overview of the book: Taxation at the European Court
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Workshop: Legitimate Aims and Ulterior Purposes in International Human Rights Law
On 2 June 2023, the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School is hosting a workshop on the Legitimate Aims and Ulterior Purposes in International Human Rights Law. The workshop, co-organised by PluriCourts at the University of Oslo and the Academy for European Human
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Happy New Year from the ECHR Blog
Dear readers of the ECHR Blog, let us start off by wishing all of you a happy and good new year! After a more than tumultuous year in which the Council of Europe lost its largest member state when it invaded another one, causing enormous human suffering and large-scale human