Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Concerns on Cooperation Duty of States
The Committee of Ministers has replied to a recommendation of the Parliamentary Assembly concering the duty of states to co-operate with the European Court. As readers will read below, this reaction is rather non-committal in spite of its explicit support for the…
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PACE : EU Accession to ECHR a Priority
The Lisbon Treaty which will reform the European Union will, after the final signature of the Czech president, enter into force in December. One of the innovations is the possibility for the EU to accede to the European Convention on Human Rights.…
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Structure of Strasbourg Judgments
Professor Robin White of the University of Leicester has published the following article on SSRN: ‘Judgments in the Strasbourg Court: Some Reflections’. This is the abstract: This essay, which will in due course appear in M Andenas and S Vogenhauer (Eds), A…
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Book on International Law and ECHR
Frédéric Vanneste, formerly at the University of Leuven and now working for the Belgian Council of State, has just published his book General International Law Before Human Rights Courts – Assessing the Specialty Claims of Human Rights Law. Although it deals with…
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Cruxifix in the Classroom Judgment
Religious symbols in public places have been a bone of contention in public discussions in many places around the world. Yesterday, the European Court added its contribution in the judgment Lautsi v. Italy. (Appl.no. 30814/06). The case concerned a complaint by a…
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Seminar on 50 years ECtHR in Athens
On Monday 9 November, the Athens Bar Association will organise a seminar entitled ‘1959-2009: 50 years since the creation of the European Court of Human Rights’. Speakers at this event include the Court’s president Jean-Paul Costa, President of the ECtHR, the Greek…
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ECHR Articles: Miscellaneous
Each month, our library at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights SIM, publishes online overviews of human rights articles in academic journals and yearbook – a truly helpful resource. Here are some references to ECHR-related articles in the most recent overview of…
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Conference on ECHR and (International) Criminal Law
On 19 and 20 February 2010 the University of Geneva is organising a conference on the influence of the ECHR on (international) criminal law. The conference will largely be in French. This is the programme: Si le droit international des droits de…
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Article on Structure of Fundamental Rights and ECHR
Two former colleagues of mine at Leiden University, Janneke Gerards and Hanneke Senden, have written a clear analysis of the Court’s sometimes not very precise reasoning in distinguishing between the definition of the scope of rights and the examination of the justification…
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Laundry and the Scope of Article 6
When in 1985, a Maltese woman was hanging some laundry from her window above the courtyard of her downstairs neighbour, she would never have guessed that the ensuing dispute would lead – years after her death – to a judgment by the…