Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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PACE Addresses Property Issues of Refugees and IDPs
Permit me to highlight a resolution adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) last week on the issue of ‘Solving property issues of refugees and displaced persons.’ The resolution contains a set of recommendations for member states and is based on human rights…
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Italy Asks for Referral to Grand Chamber of Crucifix Case
Just a few days before the three months deadline, Italy asked last week for referral of the case of Lautsi to the Grand Chamber of the Court. At the beginning of November last year, the Court had found that the compulsory presence…
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Costa’s New Year’s Press Conference
Yesterday, president Costa of the Court gave his annual press conference. He expressed optimism for three very different reasons. First, the entry into force of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty which clears the way for EU accession to the ECHR. President Costa qualified…
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New Italian Judge at the Court
Tuesday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected Mr Guido Raimondi He has been elected for a six-year term of office and will replace Vladimiro Zagrebelsky, who in March will be reaching the age of 70 – the age-limit for…
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Book on Interpretation Techniques of ECtHR and IACtHR
Nomos Publishers just published a book by Benavides Casals entitled Die Auslegungsmethoden bei Menschenrechtsverträgen Die Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte und des Interamerikanischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte (Methods of intepretation of human rights treaties by the European and Inter-American Courts of Human…
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PACE, S-G, and Interlaken
Last December the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held a hearing on the Interlaken process entitled ‘The future of the Strasbourg Court and enforcement of ECHR standards: reflections on the Interlaken process’. The conclusions of the chairperson of that…
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New Academic Articles on ECHR
Here is an overview of recent ECHR-related articles in leading academic journals (and less recent ones, that I did not notify before). First, the Human Rights Law Journal features two articles on the ECHR in its latest issue (vol. 9, no. 4,…
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Court’s Second Advisory Opinion
The Court has just issued its second Advisory Opinion ever, entitled ‘On certain legal questions concerning the lists of candidates submitted with a view to the election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights’. The questions at issue arose from…
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Upcoming Second Advisory Opinion of the Court
This Friday the Court will issue its second Advisory Opinion ever. It was requested by the Committee of Ministers (to be precise, their deputies) last year and concerns the following question: “whether a list of candidates for election as a judge in…
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Russian Duma Has Accepted Protocol 14 Today
The Russian Duma has ratified Protocol 14 today (a majority of 392 votes out of 450). The other branch of the legislative, the Federation Council, now has to accept it still. Following protracted negotiations it will now be guaranteed for Russia that…