Month: January 2026
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Rolling Call for ECHR Blog Guest Posts
We would like to inform you that the ECHR Blog warmly welcomes guest posts on an ongoing basis. Guest posts can cover topics such as new ECtHR judgments, recent changes relating to the EC(t)HR, and developments at the Council of Europe relating to the ECHR
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Event on the ECHR and the Chisinau Declaration 2026
On Wednesday 4 February 2026 from 13:00-14:00 CET (12:00-13:00 UK time) the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation of the University of Leicester is organizing an online event with the AGORA Group entitled ‘The ECHR and the Chisinau Declaration 2026: What is at Stake for
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New Book on Intellectual Property Before the ECtHR
Elena Izyumenko (University of Amsterdam) and Christophe Geiger (Luiss University) have recently published a new monograph entitled ‘Human Rights and Intellectual Property Before the European Courts: A Case Commentary on the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights‘. The
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New Judges Elected in Respect of Cyprus and the Netherlands
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected two new judges to the ECtHR, who will serve a nine-year term (Article 23(1) ECHR): Nicholas Emiliou in respect of Cyprus and Corinna Wissels in respect of the Netherlands. Nicholas Emiliou, as any judge, was
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New Edition ECHR Teaching Resources
The Council of Europe has just published the newest, 2026 edition of The European Convention on Human Rights in practice – Teaching Resources. This open access online booklet is geared towards teachers, assumedly in secondary education (but also useful potentially for non-law students in university education).
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ECHR Travaux Préparatoires Open Access Online
It has been some years in the making, but a key set of documents, the Convention’s Travaux Préparatoires, have now been made open access online, as a result of a collaboration beween the European Court of Human Rights and De Gruyter Brill Publishers. Hundreds of
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CDDH Secretariat Publishes Possible Elements for the Chișinău Declaration on Migration
On 6 January 2026, the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) published a 20-page document prepared by its Secretariat and detailing elements for the political declaration on migration to be prepared at the 135th Session of the Committee of Ministers (to be held in
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New ECHR Blog Year
Our very best wishes for the new year to all our readers. Amidst the whirlwind of international news and the flouting of international law and human and fundamental rights, this blog will continue to provide news, thorough analysis and announcements on everything related to the