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New Book: Taxation at the European Court of Human Rights
Robert Attard (EY and University of Malta) and former ECtHR judge Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque (the Catholic University of Portugal) have published a book entitled Taxation at the European Court of Human Rights. Here is an overview of the book: Taxation at…
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Workshop: Legitimate Aims and Ulterior Purposes in International Human Rights Law
On 2 June 2023, the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School is hosting a workshop on the Legitimate Aims and Ulterior Purposes in International Human Rights Law. The workshop, co-organised by PluriCourts at the University of Oslo and the Academy…
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Happy New Year from the ECHR Blog
Dear readers of the ECHR Blog, let us start off by wishing all of you a happy and good new year! After a more than tumultuous year in which the Council of Europe lost its largest member state when it invaded another one, causing enormous…
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New Thematic Factsheet on Hate Crime and Hate Speech
The Council of Europe’s Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has just issued a new thematic factsheet on hate crime and hate speech. Here is a brief description: ‘Hate crime is a criminal act motivated…
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Call for Abstracts ‘Heads and Tails’: ECHR Admissibility and Remedies
On 15-16 June 2023, we are organising the international academic workshop ‘Heads and Tails’: Admissibility and Remedies at the European Court of Human Rights’ at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. It is part of a collaboration between the Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law and…
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Online Course ‘Introduction to the ECHR and the Court’
The Council of Europe is offering the free six-hour online course ‘Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights‘. The course offers legal professionals and others a way to get familiarized with the text of…
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Podcast on the Importance of the Court
The House of Wisdom Podcast has just released the episode Does the European Court of Human Rights Matter? In the episode, Dr. Rumyana van Ark (Researcher in (Counter-)Terrorism and Human Rights at the Asser Institute) discusses the importance of the European Court of Human…
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New Book on Litigation about Religion and the ECHR
Lisa Harms of the University of Münster has published the monograph Faith in Courts. Human Rights Advocacy and the Transnational Regulation of Religion with Hart Publishing. It is available as an ebook. This is the abstract: ‘The judicialisation of religious freedom conflicts is long recognised. But…
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New Issue ECHR Law Review
The newest issue of the ECHR Law Review has just been published (vol. 3, issue 4). The issue contains an editorial note, two guest editorials, two research articles and a case note. The contributions discuss such topics as the impact of the…
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New Handbook on ECHR Law and Principles
Carla Buckley, Krešimir Kamber, Pamela McCormick and David Harris have just published a new handbook for university students as well as legal practitioners, entitled The European Convention on Human Rights – Principles and Law. Here is a brief summary: ‘The European Convention on Human…
