Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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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…
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Practical Guide to Article 6 ECHR – The Right to a Fair Trial
Päivi Hirvelä and Satu Heikkila have published a new book on what is one of the European Convention’s key rights, with a case-law whose volume is hard to keep up with: Article 6 ECHR. The book, published with Intersentia, is entitled Right to…
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Information Hub on ECHR Implementation for NHRIs
ENNHRI, The European Network of National Human Rights Institutions, has this week launched a dedicated information hub on its website on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Although geared towards NHRIs, the information is of much wider interest and of use…
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Online ERA Seminar on the Newest ECtHR Freedom of Expression Case-law
On 27 and 28 May, the European Law Academy (ERA) is organising another of its online seminars for legal practitioners on the newest case-law of the European Court of Human Rights on freedom of expression. A great opportunity to hear about the…
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New Book on The Court – Current Challenges in Historical Perspective
Helmut Philipp Aust (Freie Universität Berlin) and Esra Demir-Gürsel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) have co-edited a new book entitled The European Court of Human Rights – Current Challenges in Historical Perspective, with Edward Elgar Publishers. It is a collection of contributions from a…
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Workshop on the Execution of the Court’s Judgments
In the context of the German Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School and Middlesex University, are organising a workshop this Friday…