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New Book on the European, Inter-American and African Human Rights Courts
A new book by professor Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) traces and evaluates the histories and common threads running through the work of the world’s three regional human rights courts. This comparative volume, written in French, and published by A.…
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Submitting Guest Posts to the ECHR Blog
Dear ECHR Blog readers, as part of our announced renewal and expansion, we have now added a new item to the blog. For many years, this blog has received guest posts of eminent academic colleagues. We are now more explicitly inviting fellow academics to…
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Online (and in-Person) Conference on Human Rights and Environmental Protection and the ECHR
On 5 October 2020, the European Court of Human Rights is hosting on its premises a conference on Human Rights and Environmental Protection. The conference will also be streamed online. The registration is open until 25 September. The full programme can be accessed here. Below…
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New Edition of the Book Freedom of Expression and the Internet by Benedek and Kettemann
Wolfgang Benedek and Matthias C. Kettemann have just published the second edition of the book Freedom of Expression and the Internet (Council of Europe). The second edition comes at a time when most of us express, receive, engage with, and create ideas…
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Registration for the European Human Rights Moot Court Competition is Now Open
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Expanding the ECHR Blog – A New Face
Dear readers of the ECHR Blog, this blog is about to expand and renew! As some of you will know, keeping up a blog can be quite a daunting – yet very enjoyable – task. After more than 12.5 years and more…
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Online Conference on 70 Years ECHR
Next week, on Thursday 17 September 2020, the Institute of International and European Union Law of the Law School of Mykolas Romeris University in Lithuania is organizing an international e-Conference on ‘70 years of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental…
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New Session of MOOC on the ECHR
This coming Monday 7 September our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies. An Introduction into the European Convention on Human Rights‘ will kick off again with, due to the pandemic, a big new group of prospective online…
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Guest Post on Court President’s Visit to Turkey
Today a short guest post on the visit of the president Robert Spano of the European Court of Human Rights to Turkey, which has led to a lot of discussion in the Turkish human rights community. The Court’s President amongst others met…
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Special Issue ECHR and Wider International Law
The International Journal of Human Rights has published a special issue (vol. 24, issue 7, 2020) with a focus on ‘the Relationship Between the European Convention on Human Rights and Wider International Law’. Most of the articles were published online earlier on…
