• Musings of a Former Judge

    Musings of a Former Judge

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    With yesterday’s post about translations into many languages in mind, I dare to post for once a publication in one of Europe’s smaller languages, Dutch (also my own incidentally). At the occasion of his retirement from the European Court of Human Rights,…

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  • Court Information in Many More Languages

    Court Information in Many More Languages

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    The Court is continuing to expand its translations of key publications for potential applicants and the general public. Currently, the “Questions & Answers”, “The ECHR in 50 Questions”, and the leaflet “The Court in brief”, have been translated into the official languages of…

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  • Book on European Court in the Post-Cold War Era

    Book on European Court in the Post-Cold War Era

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    Dr James Sweeney of the University of Durham has written a very interesting monograph on the intersection of the universality of human rights and the specifics of transitional justice, with the European Court as its case study. The book, entitled ‘The European…

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  • Deportation of Children Judgment

    Deportation of Children Judgment

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    It is my pleasure to have a guest blog today by dr Maarten den Heijer, former colleague and a specialist in European migration law. He has been so kind to comment on the judgment of Butt v Norway, delivered by the Court…

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  • New Academic Articles on the Convention

    New Academic Articles on the Convention

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    The newest ‘Current Contents Selection’ of my home base SIM has been put online. It includes the following ECHR-related articles (I am only mentioning the ones I did not refer to before on this blog). First off, the Cambridge Law Journal (vol.…

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  • Court’s Guide to Case-Law per Article

    Court’s Guide to Case-Law per Article

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    This week, the European Court of Human Rights started to publish a new series of studies on its jurisprudence relating to specific Articles of the ECHR, the so-called Guide to Case-law. Another addition to its range of informative tools about the Convention – next to the information…

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  • Joint NGO Statement on Draft Protocols 15 and 16

    Joint NGO Statement on Draft Protocols 15 and 16

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    A group of European human rights NGOs has published a Joint Comment on the drafting of Protocols 15 and 16 to the European Convention, about which I reported previously here. The NGOs are critical about some proposed aspects (such as the singling out…

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  • Telegraaf Judgment on Protection of Journalists’ Sources

    Telegraaf Judgment on Protection of Journalists’ Sources

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    Yesterday, the European Court issued its judgment in yet another case about the protection of journalistic sources in the Netherlands, and again found the country in violation of the ECHR: Telegraaf and others v. The Netherlands. I am very happy to welcome…

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  • New Handbook on ECHR in French

    New Handbook on ECHR in French

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    Professor Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen of Paris-I (Sorbonne) University has just published a new French-language handbook on the European Convention on Human Rights. Entitled ‘La Convention européenne des droits  de l’homme’, it has been published by Lextenso Éditions. Burgorgue-Larsen is an expert in both…

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  • HUDOC Advanced Search Tutorial

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    The Court has just put online a short video tutorial on the advanced search options of the recently renewed HUDOC case-law database. It explains in much more detail than the basic earlier video how one can search through the extensive jurisprudence of…

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