Month: October 2025
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Recording of Online Event on the ECHR in the Age of Backlash
A recording of the online inaugural event of the AGORA Group entitled ‘The Age of Backlash: The European Convention on Human Rights and the New Political Reality’ is now available for those who missed it or want to watch it again. This event took place yesterday
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below another new selection of recent academic publications on the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court. Enjoy reading! * Sebastián Alejandro Rey, ‘Advances and Setbacks in the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights on Serious Violations of Human Rights’(2025) 14/1,
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Online Event on the ECHR and Armed Conflict
On Wednesday 19 November 2025 from 12:00-13:00 (CET), the Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights is organizing an online research event entitled ‘Human rights in armed conflict after the Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia judgment‘. This online event will focus on an exploration of
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Call for Papers: The European Yearbook on Human Rights (EYHR) 2026
The European Yearbook on Human Rights (EYHR) has just launched a Call for Papers for its 2026 edition on topical developments in the field of human rights in and beyond Europe. The year 2026 will mark the anniversary of the International Covenant on Civil and
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E.A. v. France: Judicial revictimisation of a survivor of sadistic sexual harassment at work. Ignoring a coercive control context to impute ‘consent’ to the victim
By Margarita S. Ilieva Introduction On 4 September 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) rendered a landmark judgment in E.A. and Association européenne contre les violences faites aux femmes au travail v. France. For the first time, the Court: 1) mapped criteria
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New Session of the MOOC on ECHR
This week a new session of Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR started! It is still possible to enroll. To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies – An introduction into the
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New Book on Property under the ECHR
Henrik Jorem has published the new book The Development of the Right to Property in the European Convention on Human Rights with Brill. It deals not only with the evolving case-law on Article 1 of Protocol 1, but also places this in wider discussions about subsidiarity
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New Book on the Regional Human Rights Courts, Including the ECtHR
Ahmed Almutawa (Durham University) and Konstantinos D. Magliveras (University of the Aegean) have just pubslished a new edited book entitled ‘A Comparison of the European, Inter-American, African and Arab Human Rights Courts: Institutional Aspects‘. The book offers a comparative analysis of the institutional and procedural
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Launch of ECHR AGORA
We reported on the online event on the ECHR and the Age of Backlash earlier this week here. That event will also serve as the launch of the new European platform AGORA, initiated by Andrew Forde and supported by this blog’s editors among many others.
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New Book on Child Protection and the ECHR
Hege Stein Helland, Marit Skivenes and Siri Gloppen of the University of Bergen have just published a new edited book entitled ‘Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights: Lessons from Norway in the Development and Contestation of Children’s Rights‘. The book analyses judgments