Month: December 2025
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New Book on the Impact of European Human Rights Bodies, Including the ECtHR, on Penal Policies
Gaëtan Cliquennois (University of Rennes) has just published a new monograph entitled ‘The Impact of European Human Rights Bodies on Penal Policies‘. The book provides an analysis of the impact of the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of
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New Edition of ‘Great Debates on the European Convention on Human Rights’
Fiona de Londras (University of Birmingham) and Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou (University of Liverpool) have just published the second edition of their book entitled ‘Great Debates on the European Convention on Human Rights‘. Here is the description: ‘The 2nd edition of Great Debates on the European Convention on
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New Edition of Frowein and Peukert ECHR Handbook
The newest, fourth edition of one of the key classic handbooks on the ECHR in the German language has been published: Frowein / Peukert, EMRK-Kommentar at N.P. Engel Verlag. In the spirit of its original authors, Jochen Abr. Frowein und Wolfgang Peukert, a new collective of
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FRA Note on EU Accession to ECHR
The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) of the European Union has just published a note with questions and answers about the accession of the EU to the ECHR. More information from the Council of Europe on the process and its history, including the outcome of the
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Learning from Inadmissibility: The Latest on Climate Change in Fliegenschnee
On 11 December 2025, the Court published its most recent climate ruling: the Fourth Section’s unanimous decision in Fliegenschnee and Others v. Austria. This is the latest in the Court’s mounting number of inadmissible climate cases – after Plan B. Earth, Metabody, Humane Being, Duarte
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An Exceptional Ministerial Conference on the ECHR and ‘Migration Challenges’
An informal ministerial conference took place in Strasbourg on human rights day, 10 December 2025. As is explained in more detail below, this exceptional gathering was prompted by a letter of nine ECHR states of about seven months earlier. The ministerial conference resulted in the
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Webinar on the Rule of Law Crisis in Poland and the ECHR
On Monday 15 December from 17:30-19:00 (CET), the Democracy Institute Rule of Law Clinic of the Central European University (CEU) and the Review of Democracy (RevDem) are organizing a webinar entitled ‘Two Years after Walesa v Poland – Restoring the Rule of Law in a
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Workshop on ECHR and Sport
On 16 and 17 April 2026, the International Law and Human Rights Unit of the University of Liverpool is organizing a workshop entitled ‘Impact of Strasbourg and Luxembourg Courts on Lex Sportiva’. The workshop will focus on the impact of the judgments of the European
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New Session of the MOOC on the ECHR Starts Again on 15 December
In two weeks, on 15 December 2025, Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR will start again! To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies – An introduction into the ECHR’ is taught