Year: 2023
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New ECHR Readings
We have again collected a selection of ECHR-related academic publications of the last few months. Please find them below: * Ludovica Chiussi Curzi, ‘Third parties before the European Court of Human Rights: Addressing Limits, Unfolding Potentials’ Questions of International Law, no. 100 (2023). *…
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Research Report on Protocol 16 in Judicial Practice
How has Protocol 16 ECHR has been implemented and applied so far and could its use be improved? A research report commissioned by the Research and Documentation Centre of the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands has just been published and presented to the Dutch…
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New Book on Positive Obligations under the ECHR
Vladislava Stoyanova (Lund University) has published a new book entitled Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights. This is the abstract: ”It is beyond question that States have positive obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to prevent and address harm and…
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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 today, 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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BBC Podcast Episode on the UK and the ECHR
Last week BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Briefing Room’ released a podcast episode on the United Kingdom and the European Convention on Human Rights. In the episode, Ed Bates (University of Leicester), former president of the ECtHR Robert Spano, Joelle Grogan (UK in a Changing Europe)…
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New Book on the ECHR’s Impact on National Private Law
Matteo Fornasier (Ruhr University Bochum)) and Maria Gabriella Stanzione (University of Salerno) have co-edited a book recently published by Intersentia, entitled The European Convention on Human Rights and its Impact on National Private Law: A Comparative Perspective. This is the abstract: ”Originally, the European Convention on Human…
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Webinar on the Implementation of ECtHR Judgments concerning Legal Gender Recognition
On 13 July from 10:00 to 11:30 CET, the European Implementation Network (EIN) and Transgender Europe (TGEU) are organizing a webinar entitled ‘From Court to Practice: Implementing European Court of Human Rights Rulings‘. The online webinar will discuss the implementation process of ECtHR judgments concerning…
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New EIN-DRI Rule of Law Report 2023
Yesterday, the European Implementation Network (EIN) and Democracy Reporting International (DRI) launched their new report entitled ‘Justice Delayed and Justice Denied: Report on the Non-Implementation of European Judgments and the Rule of Law‘. The report addresses the issue of non-implementation of judgments of the European…
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Call for Interest – Protecting Free Speech through ECtHR Implementation
The European Implementation Network (EIN) is calling on NGOs to express their interest to participate in a new project entitled ‘Protecting Freedom of Expression by Supporting the Implementation of ECtHR judgments‘. The project is aimed at protecting the right to free speech in every country…
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New Edition of ‘General Principles of the European Convention on Human Rights’
Our Utrecht University colleague professor Janneke Gerards has published the new second edition of her textbook entitled General Principles of the European Convention on Human Rights. This textbook offers an explanation of all relevant substantive concepts and principles of ECHR law. This is the abstract:…