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Here is a small overview of recent online case comments on a few of Strasbourg’s most recent judgments. First off, on the I.B. v. Greece judgment a comment by my new Utrecht colleague Alexandra Timmer. The case related to HIV-based employment discrimination.…

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To state that the European Court of Human Rights has a backlog of cases has become a mantra and a cliché. It has been used both to pity and to attack the Court. Both to criticise and to advise it. Relatively unnoticed,…

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This coming Thursday, 24 October, a seminar is being organised at the European Court on the press that the Court is getting, a different aspect of the freedom of expression! It will address how the Court and its judgments are portrayed in…

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I am happy to announce that my article ‘The Pilot Judgment Procedure at the European Court of Human Rights: Possibilities and Challenges’, which was published in 2009 in the Greek legal journal Nomiko Vima, has now been translated into Ukrainian and re-published…

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Professor Christoph Grabenwarter of the Vienna University of Business and Economics has published his extensive commentary (600 pages) on the ECHR in English now with Hart Publishing. The book is entitled ‘The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental…

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A number of new papers on the ECHR have recently been put on the Social Science Research Network. Here is a short overview: Normal 0 21 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes;…

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0 The newest edition of the German Yearbook of International Law / Jahrbuch für Internationales Recht (2012) has now been published. Its extensive contents include a whole range of articles about the European Convention on Human Rights and the Court’s case-law. Here…

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