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Call for Papers: Critical Approaches to European Human Rights Law
On 17 January 2025, Esra Demir-Gürsel (Hertie School), Corina Heri (University of Zürich) and Jens Theilen (Helmut Schmidt University) are organizing a workshop on Critical Approaches to European Human Rights Law, and a Call for Papers for the workshop has just been launched.…
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Conference on the Implementation of ECtHR Judgments
On 19 June 2024, the European Implementation Network (EIN) will hold a conference entitled ‘Safeguarding the Rule of Law: Implementing ECtHR Judgments for Lasting Impact’ as part of its project on ‘Promoting the Rule of Law in Europe through the Implementation of…
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Court and Academia Dialogue
The University of Strasbourg’s Law Faculty is organising its fourth annual colloquium between academics and judges of the European Court of Human Rights. The French-language hybrid event, entitled ‘Dialogue entre la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme et la Doctrine’, takes place…
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Webinar on ECtHR Climate Change Cases
On Friday 31 May (13:00-14:00 CET) the University of Göttingen is organizing a webinar entitled ‘Climate Change and Human Rights: Exploring the ECHR’s KlimaSeniorinnen and Duarte Agostinho cases’. In the webinar, Corina Heri (Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich) and Kata Dosza…
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New President and Other Changes at the Court
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights announced a number of position changes in its internal organisation. Most pre-eminently, the Court elected its new President: Marko Bošnjak, the Court’s judge in respect of Slovenia. Since 2022, he has been a vice-President…
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75 Years Council of Europe and Civil Society
In the week in which the Council of Europe celebrates its 75th anniversary (founded on 5 May 1949) – a full and bilingual timeline is available here – two civil society initiatives were undertaken: The first is the presentation to states of…
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New Special Issue ECHR Law Review
The first issue of the year of the ECHR Law Review has just been published (Vol. 5, Issue 1). This time it is a special issue entitled ‘The ‘Special’ Relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Convention of Human Rights’. The…
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Seminar on Procedural Costs and the ECtHR
On Friday 31 May from 12:00-13:15, the Faculty of Law of Lund University is organizing a seminar entitled ‘The Costs Policy of the European Court of Human Rights: From Judicialisation to Judicial Restraint‘. In the seminar, Ezgi Özlü (Postdoctoral researcher at the Luxembourg…
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New Book: ‘European Human Rights Grey Zones’
Andrew Forde (Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway) has just published a new book with Cambridge University Press entitled European Human Rights Grey Zones: The Council of Europe and Areas of Conflict. The book explores the effectiveness of the Council…
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New Judges Elected
Last week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), elected three new judges to the European Court of Human Rights, in respect of Ireland, Latvia, and Liechtenstein. In respect of Ireland, Úna Ní Raifeartaigh was elected. She is currently a…
