Year: 2023
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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…
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It Takes More than Two to Execute ECHR judgments
By Nikolaos Sitaropoulos* Introduction In early April this year the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers (CM) issued its 2022 Annual Report on the execution of ECHR judgments (the annual report). As usual, this report did not hit national or European media headlines, although it refers…
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Webinar on Better Cooperation within the Council of Europe Institutions
On 9 May, from 12:00-14:00 (CET) SWPS University, Riga Graduate School of Law and the University of Cologne are organizing a webinar on better cooperation within the Council of Europe Institutions. Professor Konstantsin Dzehtsiarou (University of Liverpool), Dr Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias (Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy…
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New Romanian Judge Elected
Last week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected Sebastian Răduleţu as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Romania. He will succeed judge Iulia Antoanella Motoc. In a tight race, Mr Răduleţu obtained a majority of votes…