Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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EIN Training on ECtHR Judgment Implementation for Ukraine
The ever-growing European Implementation Network, which recently welcomed more new members, together with The Netherlands Helsinki Committee, is organising a training about the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in Ukraine in October. The event will either be…
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Summer Break ECHR Blog
Dear readers, this blog is taking a Summer break after another intense blogging season on the ECHR and its Court. We wish all of you a good Summer or Winter, depending on the hemisphere, Antoine Buyse & Kushtrim Istrefi
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Country Factsheets on the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
Recently, the Committee of Ministers’ Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights launched a dedicated webpage which gives a country-by-country overview by way of factsheets on each state party to the ECHR. Each factsheet gives an…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new batch of articles and other publications related to the ECHR and the Court: * Medes Malaihollo, ‘Due Diligence in International Environmental Law and International Human Rights Law: A Comparative Legal Study of the Nationally Determined Contributions under…
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Webinar on Evidence and Proof in ECtHR Proceedings
On 5 July, The DISSECT research project led by Marie-Bénédicte Dembour (Ghent University) is organising a webinar on ‘Evidence and Proof in Proceedings Before the European Court of Human Rights.’ The DISSECT project, more widely, looks at evidence in international human rights…
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Blog Symposium on Protocol 15 ECHR – A Protocol for the Ostriches? Civil Society Perspectives
Başak Çalı, Hertie School Protocol 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights, a culmination of the UK Government’s contribution to the process of reform of the European Court of Human Rights during its Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the…
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Blog Symposium on Protocol 15 ECHR – What Implications for Applicants’ Right of Access to the European Court?
Philip Leach, European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), Middlesex University More than eight years after it was adopted, Protocol 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights will come into force in August this year, following the final state ratification, by Italy, in April. This short…
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Blog Symposium on Protocol 15 ECHR – Introduction
Antoine Buyse and Kushtrim Istrefi The wheels of international law often turn slowly. And so do negotiations leading to treaties or amendments of those. But even once adopted, many years may pass before entry into force. The addition of Protocols to…
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Guest Post on Big Brother Watch and Others v UK : Snowden’s Redemption or Pyrrhic Victory?
It’s our pleasure to introduce a guest post on one of last month’s key judgments on surveillance through bulk interception of data and on privacy, the Grand Chamber judgment in Big Brother Watch and Others v the United Kingdom: Maximillian Shreeve-McGiffen, LLM…
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Book Launch of Law, Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights
The recent book of Rory O’Connell (Ulster University), entitled Law, Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights (on which we reported earlier here), will be officially launched in June. The Transitional Justice Institute at which he is best is organising the…