Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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MOOC on ECHR Starts Again on 7 September
Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR is starting again this week, on 7 September. Registration is open now! To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies – An introduction into…
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Lawyers’ Associations Now Also Explicitly Allowed to Make Rule 9 Submissions
The Council of Europe’s communications department has reported a small but significant change in the practice surrounding the supervision of implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Under the so-called Rule 9 of the Rules of the Committee of Ministers for…
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New Book on the Right to Property in the ECHR
Douglas Maxwell has published the monograph The Human Right to Property. A Practical Approach to Article 1 of Protocol No.1 to the ECHR with Hart Publishing. This is the abstract: ‘This book provides a highly detailed, practical analysis of Article 1 of…
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New Book on Immigrants and the European Court of Human Rights
Amanda Spalding of Canterbury Christ Church University, in the United Kingdom, has published the new book The Treatment of Immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights. Moving Beyond Criminalisation, with Hart Publishing. This is the abstract: “This book looks at how the…
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One Judge, Three Questions Video Series
Earlier this week, the new judge in respect of Ukraine (on which we reported earlier here) was sworn in at the European Court of Human Rights: Mykola Gnatovskyy, former member and president of the European Committee Against Torture. For the Court itself, this…
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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…