This week, Protocol 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights was opened for signature in Strasbourg. The Protocol which introduces the possibility for the highest national courts to ask the European Court for an advisory opinion is a product of the…

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Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected a new judge in respect of Romania, Iulia Motoc. She was elected with an overwhelming majority of 132 out of 149 votes cast. Interestingly, one of the two other candidates was no…

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In the context of the Dutch-Russian Cultural year, a consortium of Russian organizations will hold a conference dedicated to ECHR Education in Russia and across Europe in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on 21 and 22 October. The organisers are: the Ombudsman in the Sverdlovsk…

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The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 13, issue 3, September 2013) has been published. Its contents include the following ECHR-related articles (one of which I have mentioned before): * Stijn Smet, ‘Conflicts between Absolute Rights: A Reply to…

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Having returned from an inspiring conference on the effects and implementation of Strasbourg judgments at the University of Göttingen in Germany, here follows a new round of recent ECHR publications in academic journals. The first one is from the latest edition of…

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Professor Piet Eeckhout of University College London has published an interesting article on what the European Union’s accession to the ECHR will mean for the EU. Specifically it reconsiders legal pluralism theories in this respects and argues for an integration of laws…

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The newest edition of SIM Current Contents with articles on human rights (August 2013) is available now. It includes a large number of ECHR-related publications, some very recent, some a bit older. In as far as I have not notified them on…

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The conference proceedings of the 8th congress of the Societas Iuris Publici Europaei (SIPE), held in Lisbon in 2011, have now been published in the book “The Accession of the European Union to the ECHR”. The book, with contributions in English, German…

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Today marks the 60th anniversary of the entry into force of the European Convention on Human Rights on 3 September 1953. This was within three years of the formal signature on 4 November 1950 in Rome – the date usually referred to…

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