Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Opening of the Judicial Year
Last week, on 24 June, the formal opening of the judicial year of the European Court of Human Rights took place in Strasbourg. The dual event, slightly deferred due to the pandemic, started with a seminar for judges of Europe’s highest courts on the apt…
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Invoking Subsidiarity to Weaken ECHR Protection in the UK
Guest post by Katie Lines Introduction For many months now, the United Kingdom’s Government has been solidifying plans to drastically change the country’s human rights framework in a manner that could jeopardise its continued membership of the Council of Europe. On 10 May, the…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new batch of academic readings from the last few months on the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights and its case-law: * Paul Gragl, ‘Kant and Strasbourg on Mandatory Vaccinations’, European Convention on…
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Kosovo Applies for Council of Europe Membership
Last week, on 12 May 2022, Kosovo has formally applied for membership of the Council of Europe. For many years, this did not seem a possibility because not all CoE member states recognised Kosovo as a state, but with the new geopolitical situation following…
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Conference on Systemic Non-Implementation of ECtHR Judgments
The European Implementation Network (EIN) is organising a conference entitled ‘Systemic Non-Implementation of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights – What Can Civil Society Do?’ on 22 and 23 June in Strasbourg. While geared towards EIN members, other participants are…
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Online Book Panel on New ECHR Books
On 8 June 2022 at 16h00 CET, an online panel will be organized on “Minimalism vs. Maximalism? Challenges and Future Directions in the Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights”, chaired by Professor Eva Brems. It centres on three recent ECHR-related monographs and…
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EIN & DRI Report on Non-Implementation of Judgments of European Courts
Democracy Reporting International and the European Implementation Network (EIN) have published a report on the problems with implementation of both the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. The report is entitled ‘Justice Delayed and Justice Denied: Non-Implementation of European Courts…
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New Handbook on European Law related to the Right of the Child
In the collaborative series between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), a new updated version has been published in open access of the Handbook on European Law related to the Right of the Child. The…
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New Book on a Constitutionalist Approach to the ECHR
Lisa Sonnleitner of Karl-Franzens University Graz has published the new monograph A Constitutionalist Approach to the European Convention on Human Rights. The Legitimacy of Evolutive and Static Interpretation with Bloomsbury Publishers. This is the abstract of the book: ‘This book presents a new constitutional…
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New Issue ECHR Law Review
The newest issue of the ECHR Law Review has just been published (vol. 3. issue 1). A number of its articles are dedicated to the special theme of the ECHR and climate change. These are the substantive articles and introductory editorial (some…