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Conference on Prisoner Voting Rights and the ECHR
The University of Liverpool, in cooperation with the Council of Europe and the PluriCourts project, is organising a two day workshop on one of the most contested ECHR-related issues in the UK: ‘Challenges to Implementing the Judgments of the European Court of…
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Conference on European Consensus
The School of Law at the University of Portsmouth, the European University Institute (EUI) and the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool are co-organising a conference on the European consensus (EuC) method of interpretation of the European Court of…
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Video on Admissibility Criteria
In an effort to increase the understanding of how the application system in Strasbourg works, the Court is constantly increasing the number of information tools. Of course, there is the ‘Practical Guide on Admissibility Criteria‘, an online text with comprehensive information. To…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a number of new readings on the European Convention of Human Rights, the Court, and its case-law: * B.M. Oomen, ‘A serious case of Strasbourg-bashing? An evaluation of the debates on the legitimacy of the European Court of Human…
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Guest Post: Grand Chamber Judgment Bédat v Switzerland
At the end of last month, the Grand Chamber of the Court issued its judgment in the case of Bédat v. Switzerland on journalism and investigative secrecy in criminal cases. One of our regular guest bloggers, professor Dirk Voorhoof of Ghent University, has…
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Guest Post: NGO Views on Protocol 16
It is my pleasure to present a guest post by Jennifer Babaie, a litigation fellow with the Open Society Justice Initiative. The note reflects the core points that a number of human rights NGOs submitted to the Court on the new Protocol 16, also…
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Oxford Commentary on the ECHR
Oxford University Press has published a new Commentary on the European Convention on Human Rights, by William Schabas (Middlesex and Leiden). The book is part of the great series of Oxford Commentaries on International Law. The volume of more than 1300 pages covers…
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Event on European Court and the UK
The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, part of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and the University of Leicester are organising an event entitled ‘The Rule of Law, The European Court of Human Rights and the UK: A…
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Our New Book on European Human Rights Protection
It is my great pleasure to announce the publication, today, of a co-edited by book professor Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir (University of Iceland) and myself (Utrecht University) on what we have dubbed the shifting gravities of the protection of human rights in the triangle:…
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Offensive Online Comments – New ECtHR Judgment
Earlier this month, the European Court delivered what can be seen as its first post-Delfi judgment on offensive online user-generated content. It is my pleasure to present a guest blog with critical comments on this case by Dirk Voorhoof and Eva Lievens of…
