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Book on International Law and ECHR
Frédéric Vanneste, formerly at the University of Leuven and now working for the Belgian Council of State, has just published his book General International Law Before Human Rights Courts – Assessing the Specialty Claims of Human Rights Law. Although it deals with…
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Cruxifix in the Classroom Judgment
Religious symbols in public places have been a bone of contention in public discussions in many places around the world. Yesterday, the European Court added its contribution in the judgment Lautsi v. Italy. (Appl.no. 30814/06). The case concerned a complaint by a…
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Seminar on 50 years ECtHR in Athens
On Monday 9 November, the Athens Bar Association will organise a seminar entitled ‘1959-2009: 50 years since the creation of the European Court of Human Rights’. Speakers at this event include the Court’s president Jean-Paul Costa, President of the ECtHR, the Greek…
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ECHR Articles: Miscellaneous
Each month, our library at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights SIM, publishes online overviews of human rights articles in academic journals and yearbook – a truly helpful resource. Here are some references to ECHR-related articles in the most recent overview of…
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Conference on ECHR and (International) Criminal Law
On 19 and 20 February 2010 the University of Geneva is organising a conference on the influence of the ECHR on (international) criminal law. The conference will largely be in French. This is the programme: Si le droit international des droits de…
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Article on Structure of Fundamental Rights and ECHR
Two former colleagues of mine at Leiden University, Janneke Gerards and Hanneke Senden, have written a clear analysis of the Court’s sometimes not very precise reasoning in distinguishing between the definition of the scope of rights and the examination of the justification…
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Laundry and the Scope of Article 6
When in 1985, a Maltese woman was hanging some laundry from her window above the courtyard of her downstairs neighbour, she would never have guessed that the ensuing dispute would lead – years after her death – to a judgment by the…
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New Issue of Human Rights Law Review
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (volume 9, No. 3, 2009) includes three articles which deal with ECHR matters. The first is by professor Wojciech Sadurski and is entitled ‘Partnering with Strasbourg: Constitutionalisation of the European Court of Human…
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Human Rights Conference in Newcastle
It’s still some months away, but the University of Newcastle is organising a conference on 23 January 2010 entitled ‘Human Rights – A Drop of Liberation or Fig Leaf of Legitimation?’, which will partly be devoted to ECHR-related issues. Here is the…
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Satire and the Freedom of Expression
This is a picture of a carnival parade in which US president Barack Obama is shown with wings carrying the text of his campaign phrase “Yes we can”, to which the figure Europa is clinging with the text “We too”. Benevolent humour…
