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A Media Psychological Analysis of the Open Letter of Nine European States on the ECHR
By Sharon Coen, Associate Professor of Media Psychology at the University of Salford and Thalia Magioglou, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Westminster On May 22nd 2025 nine representatives of European countries have co-signed an open letter in which they…
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ECHR Developments on Gender-Based Violence Part II: The Autonomous and Proactive Risk Assessment in N.D. v. Switzerland
By Dr. Jasmine Sommardal, Associate Editor of the ECHR Blog Over the recent months, the ECtHR has delivered significant judgments concerning gender-based violence. In this post, I argue that N.D. v. Switzerland is notable for its application of the requirement of…
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ECHR Developments on Gender-Based Violence Part I: Secondary Victimisation, Discrimination, and Minors’ Consent
By Dr. Jasmine Sommardal, Associate Editor of the ECHR Blog In 2025, the ECtHR has delivered significant judgments concerning gender-based violence. This post provides some reflections on X v. Cyprus of 27 February 2025, I.C. v. Moldova of 27 February 2025,…
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New Book on International Cooperation and the ECHR
Prisca Feihle of the Free University Berlin has just published a new monograph entitled ‘An International Human Rights Law of Cooperation. International Cooperation, State Responsibility and the European Convention on Human Rights‘ with Edward Elgar Publishing. This is the abstract: ‘This incisive…
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Call for Papers: Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience
On 6 and 7 November 2025, the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation (CELI) of the University of Leicester and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law are organizing a conference to mark the 75th anniversary of the ECHR and the…
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Nine States Call for ‘Open-Minded Conversation’ on ECHR and Migration
In a very remarkable initiative, the heads of government and state of no less than nine European states together published an open letter yesterday calling for a shift in interpreting the ECHR in the field of migration, especially relating to ‘irregular migration’…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of academic writing related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Spyridoula Katsoni, ‘Is the Obligation Not to Refoule a Positive Obligation? An Intermediate Approach Toward the Classification Dilemma’, Human Rights Law Review (2025):…
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L. and Others v. France: Sexist Judicial Bias, Himpathy and Victim-Blaming
Guest post by Margarita S. Ilieva, strategic international equality and human rights litigator Introduction In L. et Autres c. France, for the first time, the Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged that judicial reasoning which negatively stereotypes, blames and therefore revictimises (secondary…
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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. 6, Issue 1). This issue is a special issue entitled ‘The New Agreement on the EU Accession to the echr: Can It Succeed?’. The issue contains…
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Judge Mattias Guyomar Elected President of the European Court of Human Rights
On 28 April 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or the Court) elected Mattias Guyomar, Judge in respect of France, as its new President. He succeeds President Marko Bošnjak and will take up office on 30 May 2025. Judge Guyomar…
