Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Better Working Conditions for ECHR Judges
The Strasbourg docket may be filled to the brim and the work of the judges very demanding, but their status and conditions of service has now at least become more clearly regulated. On 23 September the Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution CM/Res(2009)5…
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Harvard Human Rights Journal on ECHR
I had not yet referred to it earlier, but the last issue of 2008 of the Harvard Human Rights Journal contains an article by Jennifer Reiss on Russian non-ratification of Article 14: ‘Protocol No. 14 ECHR and Russian Non-Ratification: The Current State…
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Overview of Case Law on Minorities
For the upcoming volume of the European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Leto Cariolou has written ‘Recent Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights Concerning the Protection of Minorities.’ It does exactly what the title promises and is therefore an ideal…
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New Book on Fair Balance
Jonas Christoffersen, director of the Danish Institute of Human Rights, has just published a reworked version of his Ph.D. thesis as a book: Fair Balance: Proportionality, Subsidiarity and Primarity in the European Convention on Human Rights with Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. An important…
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New Academic Articles on ECHR
The newest issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (No. 4 of 2009) contains an article by Lord Anthony Lester entitled ‘The European Court of Human Rights after 50 Years’. In addition, the newest two issues of the Revue Trimestrielle des…
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Implementation of Judgments Worsening
The implementation of the Court’s judgments on the national level is not getting better, to say the least. In fact, 36 of the 47 state parties to the European Convention are now failing to timely implement the Court’s judgments. Those are the…
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PACE Report on Political Abuse of Criminal Justice
As the Court is having its well-deserved summer break, I would like to point my readers’ attention to a new report by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Rapporteur Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has written ‘Allegations of politically-motivated abuses of the criminal…
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ECHR Contributions in Irish Yearbook
The newest volume of the Irish Yearbook of International Law has been published, as the International Law Reporter reports. It contains two ECHR-related contributions: * William A Schabas & Aisling O’Sullivan, Of Politics and Poor Weather: How Ireland Decided to Sue the…
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Court’s Summer Break
The Court’s summer break has started in the sense that no new hearings will be held and no new judgments will be issued until the second week of September. This means that in the coming weeks blogging on here will be light,…
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Switzerland will host future of ECHR Conference
Switzerland has agreed to host the high-level conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights. It will be held in the city of Interlaken on 18 and 19 February 2010 during Switzerland’s chairmanship of the Council of Europe. The…