Year: 2023
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New Special Issue European Human Rights Law Review
A new Special Issue of the European Human Rights Law Review entitled ‘The Road to Reykjavik and Beyond’ has just been published (Issue 2, 2023). The contributions discuss various issues to be considered at the upcoming Council of Europe Summit in Reykjavik in May, such…
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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…
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Wishes for Reykjavik
What Can the Fourth Council of Europe Summit Have in Store for the Court? by Lize R. Glas, Radboud University On 16 and 17 May 2023, a summit of heads of state and government of the Council of Europe (CoE) will take place in Reykjavik, Iceland. This is…
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New Edition of ‘Law of the European Convention on Human Rights’
David Harris (Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham), Michael O’Boyle (Former Deputy Registrar at the European Court of Human Rights), Ed Bates (Associate Professor at the University of Leicester) and Carla M. Buckley (International Human Rights Lawyer) have just published the fifth edition of their textbook…
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The Hague Civil Society Declaration on Council of Europe Reform
Earlier this month, on 28 February and 1 March, the first ever Council of Europe Civil Society Summit took place in The Hague, the very city in which 75 years earlier one of the foundational moments of the European movement happened, eventually leading to the creation of the Council…