Month: May 2025
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Call for Papers: Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience
On 6 and 7 November 2025, the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation (CELI) of the University of Leicester and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law are organizing a conference to mark the 75th anniversary of the ECHR and the 35th anniversary of
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Nine States Call for ‘Open-Minded Conversation’ on ECHR and Migration
In a very remarkable initiative, the heads of government and state of no less than nine European states together published an open letter yesterday calling for a shift in interpreting the ECHR in the field of migration, especially relating to ‘irregular migration’ and the possibility
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of academic writing related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Spyridoula Katsoni, ‘Is the Obligation Not to Refoule a Positive Obligation? An Intermediate Approach Toward the Classification Dilemma’, Human Rights Law Review (2025): ‘Although the
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L. and Others v. France: Sexist Judicial Bias, Himpathy and Victim-Blaming
Guest post by Margarita S. Ilieva, strategic international equality and human rights litigator Introduction In L. et Autres c. France, for the first time, the Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged that judicial reasoning which negatively stereotypes, blames and therefore revictimises (secondary victimisation) survivors of
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New Special Issue ECHR Law Review
The first issue of the year of the ECHR Law Review has just been published (Vol. 6, Issue 1). This issue is a special issue entitled ‘The New Agreement on the EU Accession to the echr: Can It Succeed?’. The issue contains an editiorial note