Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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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…
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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…