Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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A New Year, A New Look for the ECHR Blog
As the new year of 2021 is starting, it is time for renewal. For this blog, this renewal already started last September with the extension of the editorial team. Now, in the thirteenth year of existence of this blog, we have decided to…
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ECHR Articles in December Issue of NQHR
The newest (December) issue of our SIM-based Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR, volume 38, issue 4) has just been published online. Apart from a column on the #BlackLivesMatter protests in the US and the SIM Peter Baehr lecture on digital human…
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New Book on the European Court of Human Rights and Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict
Dr Dilek Kurban, based at the Hertie School of Government in Berlin, has published the book Limits of Supranational Justice. The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict with Cambridge University Press. The monograph is a must read for any…
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New Book on ‘Hard Power’ and the ECHR
Dr Peter Kempees has published the new book “Hard Power” and the European Convention on Human Rights with Brill Publishers. I had the pleasure of being on the reading committee of the dissertation of dr Kempees on which this book is based.…
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New Book on Law, Democracy and the ECtHR
Rory O’Connell (Ulster University) has published a new monograph entitled Law, Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights with Cambridge University Press. O’Connell is an esteemed colleague over at the Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast – where I had the pleasure of…
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New Book on Positive Duties to Mobilise Criminal Law under the ECHR
Laurens Lavrysen (Ghent University) and Natasa Mavronicola (Birmingham University) have co-edited the new book Coercive Human Rights.Positive Duties to Mobilise the Criminal Law under the ECHR with Hart Publishing. This is the abstract: ‘Traditionally, human rights have protected those facing the sharp edge…
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Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection Now in Paperback
It is my pleasure to announce that the book professor Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir (University of Iceland) and myself (Utrecht University) co-edited a few years ago, Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection. RethinkingRelations between the ECHR, EU, and National Legal Orders, has now…
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70 Years ECHR Today
Today, it is exactly 70 years ago that a small group of European states adopted, after relatively fast negotiations, a very special document that is now shortly known as the ECHR. In the photo, one can see the Ministers sitting together in…
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ECHR Articles in Newest HRLR
The September 2020 issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 20, issue 3) has now been put online. These are the ECHR-related articles: * Mathieu Leloup, ‘The Concept of Structural Human Rights in the European Convention on Human Rights’: ‘This article…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of recent reading on the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Jonathan Collinson, ‘Making the best interests of the child a substantive human right at the centre of national level expulsion decisions’, Netherlands Quarterly…