Month: April 2023
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Workshop on Climate Change, Migration, Authoritarianism and the ECHR
On 16-17 November 2023, Başak Çalı, Esra Demir-Gürsel and Jens T. Theilen are organizing a workshop entitled ‘Frames of European Human Rights – How are climate change, migration, and authoritarianism framed within the Council of Europe?‘. The workshop is hosted by the Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights. The
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below our selection of recent publications, both articles and book chapters, related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Ivana Jelić, ‘Feminist Justice and the European Court of Human Rights’ in Ivana Krstić, Marco Evola, Maria Isabel Ribes Moreno (eds.), Legal Issues of
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New Book on Fairness in Criminal Appeal and the ECHR
Helena Morão and Ricardo Tavares da Silva, both of the University of Lisbon School of Law, have co-edited a book recently published by Springer, entitled Fairness in Criminal Appeal. A Critical and Interdisciplinary Analysis of the ECtHR Case-Law. This is the abstract: ‘This book addresses the European Court
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New Thematic Factsheet on Excessive Formalism by Courts
Today, the Council of Europe’s Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has issued a new thematic factsheet on excessive formalism by courts. Here is a brief description: ”The European Court has underlined that the right of access to
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2022 Report on Execution of ECtHR judgments
Last week, the latest Annual Report ‘Supervision of the Execution of Judgments and Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights‘ (covering the year 2022) of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers was published. The report outlines some important achievements: the Committee’s closure of
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The Court’s Own Reykjavik Memorandum
Whether coincidental or not, but after last week Lize Glas reported on this blog that the Court’s own memorandum for the Fourth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe was not yet public, just yesterday it has been put on