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New Book on the ECtHR and European Public Order
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou of the University of Liverpool has just published a new book with Cambridge University Press, entitled Can the European Court of Human Rights Shape European Public Order? It is available as print book and in electronic version. This is the abstract: ‘In…
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Online Training on Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence and the ECHR
The European Implementation Network is organising a free online training on 16 December on the topic ‘Combatting violence against women and domestic violence by supporting the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights’. It is aimed at practitioners and will…
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New Book: Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights
Stevie Martin (University of Cambridge) has published a book titled Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights (Routledge). On 4 November, the book won the Yorke Prize – an annual award of the Faculty of Law at the University of…
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Call for Contributions: European Yearbook on Human Rights 2022
The European Yearbook on Human Rights has issued a call for contributions for its 2022 issue. The Yearbook publishes mostly about the European Convention on Human Rights and the Council of Europe. It also contains sections on human rights in the European…
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Just Satisfaction Awarded by the Court : Statistics
The Execution Department, which supports the Committee of Ministers in monitoring the execution of the Court’s judgments by the states, has recently expanded the factsheet webpages per country. They now also include the amounts of just satisfaction that the Court has awarded to victims of…
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Guest Post: Turning Water into Wine – The Concealed Metamorphosis of the Effective Control Extraterritoriality Criterion in Carter v. Russia
By Vassilis Tzevelekos and Antal Berkes (University of Liverpool) Introduction On 21 September 2021, the Third Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) rendered its judgment in the case of Carter v. Russia. The case is…
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New Book: Responsive Human Rights – Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR
Corina Heri (University of Zurich) has published a book titled Responsive Human Rights: Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR (Hart, Bloomsbury Publishing). The book is available in open access here. Here is the abstract of the book: “Who is a vulnerable person in human rights…
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40 Years Dudgeon Judgment
Today, it is exactly 40 years since the issuing of the famous Dudgeon v the United Kingdom by the European Court of Human Rights. To mark the occasion of this landmark judgment, the Council of Europe has published a video and an…
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New Issue ECHR Law Review
The newest edition of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2021) is a special issue dedicated to ‘The Council of Europe’s Responses to the Decay of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Protections’. It has…
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ECHR Articles in Newest NQHR
The newest edition of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR, volume 39, issue 3) includes two new academic articles related to the ECHR: * Dimitrios Kagiaros, ‘Reassessing the framework for the protection of civil servant whistleblowers in the European Court of…
