Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New Journal Articles on ECHR
Still catching up on new ECHR-related journal articles. Here are two noteworthy ones: * A. Ashworth, ‘Self-incrimination in European human rights law – a pregnant pragmatism’, Cardozo law review, 2008, vol. 30, no. 3. * J. Barrett, ‘Chechnya’s last hope? Enforced disappearances…
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First Single Judge Decisions at the Court
This month, the Court has started to use the possibilities offered by the reforms of Protocol 14-Bis to the ECHR. The most important innovations are that single judges can now declare manifestly ill-founded cases inadmissible and that committees of three judges can…
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New article on ECHR, Risks, and Environment
Back from the summer break with a new article on the Convention! Professor Christopher Hilson of the University of Reading has published a contribution entitled ‘Risk And The European Convention On Human Rights : Towards A New Approach’. freely accessible on his…
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Summer Break
This blog’s author is taking a summer break. The blog will be running again on 27 July. Wishing all my readers a very good summer!
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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…