Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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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…
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International Online Conference on Youth, Climate Change and the European Court of Human Rights
The University of Tampere in Finland, together with the Finnish Human Rights Centre, is organising an international conference on Youth, Climate Change and the European Court of Human Rights on Friday 27 November from 14:00 to 17:00 (EET = UTC +2 time zone). Fitting to the…
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New Book on the European, Inter-American and African Human Rights Courts
A new book by professor Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) traces and evaluates the histories and common threads running through the work of the world’s three regional human rights courts. This comparative volume, written in French, and published by A.…
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Submitting Guest Posts to the ECHR Blog
Dear ECHR Blog readers, as part of our announced renewal and expansion, we have now added a new item to the blog. For many years, this blog has received guest posts of eminent academic colleagues. We are now more explicitly inviting fellow academics to…
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Expanding the ECHR Blog – A New Face
Dear readers of the ECHR Blog, this blog is about to expand and renew! As some of you will know, keeping up a blog can be quite a daunting – yet very enjoyable – task. After more than 12.5 years and more…
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Online Conference on 70 Years ECHR
Next week, on Thursday 17 September 2020, the Institute of International and European Union Law of the Law School of Mykolas Romeris University in Lithuania is organizing an international e-Conference on ‘70 years of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental…