Month: January 2024
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Three New Judges and Commissioner Elected
Last week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) had a busy week in many respects, including in terms of elections. No less than three new judges were elected to the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, a new Commissioner for Human Rights
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Annual Press Conference of the Court’s President
On Thursday 25 January 2024, the President of the ECtHR Síofra O’Leary held a press conference during which the results of the Court’s activities and statistics for the year 2023 were presented. President O’Leary began the conference by stating that in the year 2023, the ECtHR
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Updated Rules of Court on Recusal of Judges
Yesterday, 22 January, the newest version of the Rules of Court entered into force. Decided by the Plenary of the Court in December, they are part of a series of internal procedural reforms, also related to the Rules of Court, as we reported earlier here. The newest change relates
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New Session of MOOC on ECHR Starts Again on 10 February
On 10 February 2024 Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR will start again! 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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Webinar on ‘The Evidentiary System of the European Court of Human Rights in Critical Perspective’
On 10 January at 14:00 CET, the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University is organizing a webinar launching the new special issue of the ECHR Law Review entitled ‘The Evidentiary System of the European Court of Human Rights in Critical Perspective‘. The contributors to the
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New Special Issue ECHR Law Review
Right before Christmas the last issue of 2023 of the ECHR Law Review was published (Vol. 4, issue 4). This special issue, edited by Marie-Benedicte Dembour (Human Rights Centre, Ghent University), looks at the way evidence works at the European Court of Human Rights. The issue