Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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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…
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New Article on Behrami and Saramati cases
The decision of the Court on the actions of peacekeepers in Behrami and Saramati keeps yielding food for thought for academics, as a new article in the latest issue of the International Community Law Review shows. Alexander Breitegger of the University of…
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ECHR Seminar in London
On Wednesday 10 June, the Nuffield Foundation in London is hosting a seminar entitled ‘Scrutinising the Practice of the European Court of Human Rights: Fact-Finding Missions and the Nomination & Election of Judges’. The event will include two panels: Panel One: Fact-Finding…
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New Scottish ECHR Resource
The Scottish Human Rights Law Group has launched and is still developing a website which contains a topical overview (including short summaries) of both ECHR cases and Scottish and other British cases concerning the ECHR. One can easily search the site through…
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First Anniversary
Dear readers, today this blog celebrates its first anniversary. After almost 150 posts and over 45,000 page views, I am very happy that so many academics and practitioners interested in the protection of human rights in Europe have found their way to…
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Paper on Judicial Borrowing and the ECtHR
Erik Voeten, of the University of Georgetown, has posted a working paper entitled ‘Borrowing and Non-Borrowing among International Courts’ on SSRN. This is the abstract: Why do some international courts and judges extensively cite decisions from other courts whereas others do not?…
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Two Free Articles from HRLR
Dear readers, the publisher of the Human Rights Law Review has been so kind to make two recent ECHR-related articles from the Review freely available for all readers of this blog. The articles, both previously featured on this blog, are: – Robin…