Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New Edition of a Classic ECHR Handbook
The eagerly awaited second edition of one of the classic books on ECHR law has been published this month: Harris, O’Boyle & Warbrick: Law of the European Convention on Human Rights. The book, published by Oxford University Press, has been revised in…
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Article on Behrami and Saramati
Heike Krieger has published an article entitled ‘A Credibility Gap: The Behrami and Saramati Decision of the European Court of Human Rights’ which deals with one of the most debated decisions of the Court in the last few years. The decision of…
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Article 6 Grand Chamber Judgment
Ms Anthi Gorou must no doubt be one of the most active and successful complainants in Strasbourg. Today, the Grand Chamber of Court issued its judgment in Gorou v. Greece (No. 2), reaching the same outcome as a Chamber of the Court…
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Cinderella and Article 14 ECHR
Rory O’Connell of Queen’s University Belfast has posted an article on the evolving role of the non-discrimination principle in the ECHR, which will appear in the forthcoming issue (2009, No. 2) of the journal Legal Studies. It is entitled ‘Cinderella Comes to…
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New Articles EHRLR
The newest issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (No. 1 of 2009) contains two Articles which directly deal with the ECHR. The first is a contribution by Tamar Feldman, entitled ‘Indirect Victims, Direct Injury: Recognising Relatives as Victims under the…
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Religion and Exemptions to Military Service
Two Jehovah’s Witnesses won their respective cases last week in Strasbourg. In the judgments Gütl v. Austria and Löffelmann v. Austria, the operative parts of which are largely the same, the Court unanimously found a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination)…
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ECHR Conference in Copenhagen
On 21 and 22 March the University of Copenhagen will be hosting a symposium entitled ‘A Unique European Institution. The European Court of Human Rights after 50 Years’. Amongst others, the following themes will be addressed: the political context in which the…
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Grand Chamber Judgment in Prisoner’s Case
Today the Grand Chamber issued its judgment in the case of Paladi v. Moldova. In 2007, the Fourth Section of the Court had already decided in the same case. At the request of the Government, the case was referred to the Grand…
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(Not) Being Informed of HIV/AIDS
For health law afficionados, I can recommend yesterday’s Court judgment in the case of Colak and Tsakiridis v. Germany. Ms Colak complained about the fact that she had not been informed by her doctor that her partner was suffering from AIDS (a…
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EU & ECHR: Uneasy Neighbours?
If the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty will ever enter into force, the European Union will be able to accede to the European Convention of Human Rights. That would be a new chapter in the continuously debated relation between the Courts in Strasbourg…