Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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The New Year and What is Coming up at the Court
First off, our very best wishes for the new year to all our readers for 2022! Before focusing on a number of matters ahead in the ECHR system, one decision emanating from the Court in the last days of 2021 also deservers attention.…
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Last post of 2021: Covid, Architects and Spaghetti Monsters
Dear readers, as another Covid-19 year slowly grinds to a halt, this is the last post of 2020, as this blog will take a Winter break. For the European Court of Human Rights this was another challenging year, with what we could…
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New Book on the ECtHR and European Public Order
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou of the University of Liverpool has just published a new book with Cambridge University Press, entitled Can the European Court of Human Rights Shape European Public Order? It is available as print book and in electronic version. This is the abstract: ‘In…
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Online Training on Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence and the ECHR
The European Implementation Network is organising a free online training on 16 December on the topic ‘Combatting violence against women and domestic violence by supporting the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights’. It is aimed at practitioners and will…
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Just Satisfaction Awarded by the Court : Statistics
The Execution Department, which supports the Committee of Ministers in monitoring the execution of the Court’s judgments by the states, has recently expanded the factsheet webpages per country. They now also include the amounts of just satisfaction that the Court has awarded to victims of…
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40 Years Dudgeon Judgment
Today, it is exactly 40 years since the issuing of the famous Dudgeon v the United Kingdom by the European Court of Human Rights. To mark the occasion of this landmark judgment, the Council of Europe has published a video and an…
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New Issue ECHR Law Review
The newest edition of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2021) is a special issue dedicated to ‘The Council of Europe’s Responses to the Decay of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Protections’. It has…
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ECHR Articles in Newest NQHR
The newest edition of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR, volume 39, issue 3) includes two new academic articles related to the ECHR: * Dimitrios Kagiaros, ‘Reassessing the framework for the protection of civil servant whistleblowers in the European Court of…
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ECHR MOOC Starts Again on 7 September
Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR is starting again on 7 September 2021. Registration is open now! To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies – An introduction into the…
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Applying to the Court Information Pages
The Court has revamped and extended its pages on how to apply to Strasbourg. The information for applicants is now available in no less than 36 languages, with its entry point here. For each version, such as for example the English-language one, the…