Geranne Lautenbach (a junior associate at law firm NautaDutilh and an associate to the University of Amsterdam) has just published ‘The Concept of the Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights’ with Oxford University Press. This is the abstract:…

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A new issue of the Human Rights quarterly, new posts on blogs and new publications on SSRN yield a number of noteworthy readings on the European Convention and the European Court. I have assembled them here. First off, the newest issue of…

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Today, HUDOC, the European Court’s case-law search engine, became officially trilingual: after many years of being available only as an English- and French-language portal, it now also has a Turkish (inter)face. This new initiative, supported financially by both Turkey and the Council…

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The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has put a memorandum online on ‘The need to reinforce the independence of the European Court of Human Rights’. The report, written by rapporteur Boriss…

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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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