Month: May 2023
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Book Launch: Law of the European Convention on Human Rights (5th ed)
On Wednesday 14 June 2023, the Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) of the University of Nottingham is hosting a book launch for the fifth edition of the textbook ‘Law of the European Convention on Human Rights‘, co-authored by David Harris (Emeritus Professor at the University of
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Lecture on Media Pluralism under the ECHR
On Wednesday 31 May the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights of the University of Oxford is organizing the Eric Barendt Annual Media Law lecture entitled ‘The Concept of Media Pluralism under the European Convention on Human Rights – Substantive Principles and Procedural Safeguards‘. The lecture
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15 Years ECHR Blog!
A walk with a friend through Brussels in 2008. That is when the idea for the ECHR Blog first started to bubble in my mind. Today this blog with this post (no 1281!) marks exactly its 15th anniversary since its first post on 26 May
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New Book on Persuasion and Legal Reasoning in ECtHR Rulings
Aleksandra Mężykowska and Anna Młynarska-Sobaczewska, both of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, have just published a new book entitled Persuasion and Legal Reasoning in the ECtHR Rulings: Balancing Impossible Demands. This is the abstract: ”This book analyses the case law of the
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Call for Authors for Book Project ”Intersectional Rewrites: ECtHR Judgments Reimagined”
We had not yet reported on it here, but last month a call for authors was issued for the book project ”Intersectional Rewrites: European Court of Human Rights Judgments Reimagined”. The book project aims to analyze and rewrite judgments of the European Court of Human
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New Report on Freedom of Artistic Expression in Europe
The Council of Europe has published a new report, authored by Sarah Whyatt, on the freedom of artistic expression in Europe, entitled Free to create: artistic freedom in Europe. it includes an overview of the state of artistic freedom in Europe ass well as an
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The Reykjavik Summit and Declaration
Long-awaited, the fourth ever Council of Europe Summit has been taking place yesterday and today in Reykjavik’s Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre. As the Council itself called it, “[a]n historic opportunity for the Council of Europe to refocus its mission, in the light of new threats to
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New Thematic Factsheet on Execution of ECHR Judgments Concerning Life Imprisonment
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 the execution of ECHR judgments concerning life imprisonment. Here is a brief description: ”The European Court has noted that, although the
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Event: ‘The Concept of Europe: Progress, Colonial Continuities, and the ECHR’
On 16 May from 13:00-14:00, the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation of the University of Leicester is organizing an online event entitled ”The concept of Europe: Progress, colonial continuities, and the European Convention on Human Rights”. During the event, Dr Jens T Theilen (Helmut-Schmidt-University
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of academic readings on the European Convention of Human Rights and its Court: * Tobias Mortier, ‘Reprehensible or Legitimate Aims? A Proposal for a New Approach to Article 18 ECHR in Light of its Predominance Test’, European Convention on