Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Part of Bosnian Constitution Contravenes ECHR
Just before Christmas the European Court of Human Rights issued a very important Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina. The two men complained of their ineligibility to stand for election to the House of…
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Happy New Year and Guest Post
Dear readers, first of all a very happy and good new year to all of you! The past year has seen this blog grow to over 70,000 pageviews in 2009 and I hope to continue the work in 2010. As a kick…
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Last Post of the Year: Fox Hunt, Protocol 14, and More
Dear readers, at the end of this year a final post with a miscellany of issues. First, the Court’s site offers a range of new features to make its case law more easily accessible. An important innovation is the translation of key…
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More on Interlaken
The upcoming conference in Interlaken next year on the reform of the supervision of the ECHR is already yielding a range of preparatory documents. The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe has published a memorandum in which he gives…
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ECHR Articles in NJECL
The first issue of the ‘New Journal of European Criminal Law’ (a continuation of the Journal of European Criminal Law) has just been published and contains various ECHR-related articles: * Editorial: Taxquet v Belgium, R v Ponting, Trials by Jury and a…
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Conference on Application of ECHR and EC Law
On the 15th and 16th of January the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa (Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento Sant’Anna di Pisa) is organising a conference entitled ‘National Judges and Supranational Laws: On the Effective Application of the EC…
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Joint NGO Statement on the Interlaken Process
A number of leading human rights NGOs have just issued a joint statement on the Interlaken Process, on which I reported earlier here. The statement is entitled ‘Human rights in Europe: Decision time on the European Court of Human Rights’. This is…
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Russia Urged to Implement Pilot Judgment
Last week, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe urged the Russian Federation to adopt reforms to fully implement the pilot judgment in the case of Burdov (No. 2) v. Russia, on which I have reported earlier here. Although the…
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Roma Marriage Judgment
This week, the Court gave an important judgment on the treatment of minorities by ECHR state parties. In the case of Munoz Diaz v. Spain (Appl.no. 49151/07) the Court held that Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) in conjunction with Article 1 of…
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Articles on ECHR
The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), where I am based, compiles handy regular overviews of human rights articles. Let me highlight those which cover ECHR-related issues here: * G. Sumner, ‘We’ll sometimes have Strasbourg: privileged status of community law before the…