• Travaux Préparatoires Available Online

    Travaux Préparatoires Available Online

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    For all those interested in the historical roots of the ECHR, but with no direct access to an academic library, I can recommend the site of the Court’s own library. The site contains a full page with links to the Travaux Préparatoires…

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  • Article on Rape, Torture and ECHR in ICLQ

    Article on Rape, Torture and ECHR in ICLQ

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    Clare McGlynn of Durhan Law School has published ‘Rape, Torture and the European Convention on Human Rights’ in the newest issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 58-3). This is the abstract: This article examines the legacy of the ground-breaking…

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  • Newest Issue of European Human Rights Law Review

    Newest Issue of European Human Rights Law Review

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    Issue No. 3 (2009) of the European Human Rights Law Review has been published. Articles related to the ECHR include the following: * Eduardo Andrés Bertoni, The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights: A Dialogue on…

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  • New Journal Articles on ECHR

    New Journal Articles on ECHR

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    Still catching up on new ECHR-related journal articles. Here are two noteworthy ones: * A. Ashworth, ‘Self-incrimination in European human rights law – a pregnant pragmatism’, Cardozo law review, 2008, vol. 30, no. 3. * J. Barrett, ‘Chechnya’s last hope? Enforced disappearances…

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  • First Single Judge Decisions at the Court

    First Single Judge Decisions at the Court

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    This month, the Court has started to use the possibilities offered by the reforms of Protocol 14-Bis to the ECHR. The most important innovations are that single judges can now declare manifestly ill-founded cases inadmissible and that committees of three judges can…

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  • New article on ECHR, Risks, and Environment

    New article on ECHR, Risks, and Environment

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    Back from the summer break with a new article on the Convention! Professor Christopher Hilson of the University of Reading has published a contribution entitled ‘Risk And The European Convention On Human Rights : Towards A New Approach’. freely accessible on his…

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  • Summer Break

    Summer Break

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    This blog’s author is taking a summer break. The blog will be running again on 27 July. Wishing all my readers a very good summer!

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  • New Vice-President

    New Vice-President

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    Today, the Court has elected Renate Jaeger from Germany as Vice-President of one of its Sections, with effect from 1 July 2009. This is the main part of the Court’s press release: Judge Jaeger was born on 30 December 1940 in Darmstadt…

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  • Article on European Consensus in Case Law

    Article on European Consensus in Case Law

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    A new working paper of the University College Dublin has just been posted on SSRN entitled ‘European Consensus: A Way of Reasoning’, authored by Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou. This is the abstract: The margin of appreciation is probably one of the most controversial and…

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  • Article on ECHR Impact in Russia

    Article on ECHR Impact in Russia

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    Alexei Trochev, of the University of Wisconsin, has just posted an article on SSRN on the impact of the ECHR in Russia, based on elaborate research of Russian sources: ‘All Appeals Lead to Strasbourg? Unpacking the Impact of the European Court of…

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