Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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CDDH Report on ECHR in European and International Legal Order
Recently, the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) has published a new report. It was written at the request of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and adopted already in 2019, but only published at the end of last…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of academic publications from the last few months, related to the European Court of Human Rights, the Convention and other directly related topics:· The latest volume of the European Yearbook on Human Rights (Vol. 2020)…
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Training on ECtHR Judgments Implementation in Russia
As part of a series of trainings, the European Implementation Network (EIN) and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) have issued a call for applications (in Russian here) by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), human rights defenders and human rights lawyers to participate in a training…
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Online ERA Course on ECHR: Human Rights in Times of Emergency
The European Law Academy (ERA) is organising one of its famous courses for professionals online on the theme of ‘Human Rights in Times of Emergency‘ on 28 and 29 January. The course will go into ‘current challenges posed by COVID-19 to individual…
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Guest Post on Guðmundur Andri Ástráðsson v. Iceland: Breach of Domestic Law on Judicial Appointments Violated the Right to a Fair Trial
By Ketevan Kukava, head of Rule of Law and Human Rights Direction, IDFI Facts of the Case The case of Guðmundur Andri Ástráðsson v. Iceland, decided on 1 December 2020, provided the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) with…
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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…