Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New Vice-President
Today, the Court has elected Renate Jaeger from Germany as Vice-President of one of its Sections, with effect from 1 July 2009. This is the main part of the Court’s press release: Judge Jaeger was born on 30 December 1940 in Darmstadt…
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Article on European Consensus in Case Law
A new working paper of the University College Dublin has just been posted on SSRN entitled ‘European Consensus: A Way of Reasoning’, authored by Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou. This is the abstract: The margin of appreciation is probably one of the most controversial and…
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Article on ECHR Impact in Russia
Alexei Trochev, of the University of Wisconsin, has just posted an article on SSRN on the impact of the ECHR in Russia, based on elaborate research of Russian sources: ‘All Appeals Lead to Strasbourg? Unpacking the Impact of the European Court of…
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Problems in Appointing New ECtHR Judges
A procedural battle is being waged about the appointment of a new Ukranian Judge at the Court. There is currently no Ukrainian judge, which has meant thus far that for each case an ad hoc judge had to be appointed. The origin…
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Article on ECtHR Overruling its Own Case Law
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review has just been published. Its opening article is on the European Court of Human Rights: Alistair Mowbray, ‘An Examination of the European Court of Human Rights’ Approach to Overruling its Previous Case Law’.…
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Article on Judges’ Views on the Court
The newest issue of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Volume 27, No. 2, 2009) contains an article by Robin C. White and Iris Boussiakou entitled ‘Voices from the European Court of Human Rights’. It is based on interviews with a number…
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Pinto Law Receives Benefit of the Doubt
A very large percentage of the cases coming to the Court from Italy have traditionally concerned complaints about judicial proceedings at the domestic level that took too long and for which no remedy existed. After numerous instances in which the Court found…
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Litigation and Implementation Research Project
A consortium of researchers from a range of Council of Europe member states has produced a series of reports on litigation before the European Court and implementation of its judgments on the national level: the JURISTRAS project. The website contains all the…
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Landmark Judgment on Domestic Violence
The Court has just passed judgment in a landmark case on domestic violence: Opuz v. Turkey (Appl.no. 33401/02). The Court ruled that Turkey had failed to protect the applicant and her mother against grave instances of domestic violence and even found that…
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Kenedi v. Hungary (Access to Information)
In its recent judgment Kenedi v. Hungary (Appl. no. 31475/05), the Court has given more clarifications on access to information. The applicant in the case was a historian doing research on the State Security Service. For several years he tried to get…