Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Call for Abstracts: Revisiting the ECHR
The Human Rights Research Group of the Leuven University’s Centre for Public Law has just launched a call for abstracts for a conference entitled ‘Revisiting the ECHR: A Closer Look at Calls for Change’. The impetus for the conference was the by…
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New Book: Companion to the ECHR
My fellow blog editor Kushtrim Istrefi, together with Zane Ratniece, and Krešimir Kamber, have just yesterday, on the 75th anniversary of the ECHR, published The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights with Brill Publishers. The editors, in many years of…
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75 Years ECHR – Musings on a Birthday
Sometimes a photo can tell more than a thousand words: this black-and-white picture was taken exactly 75 years ago on 4 November 1950 in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. Thirteen states (of which one even no longer exists, the Saar, now part…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below another new selection of recent academic publications on the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court. Enjoy reading! * Sebastián Alejandro Rey, ‘Advances and Setbacks in the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights on Serious Violations of…
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New Book on Property under the ECHR
Henrik Jorem has published the new book The Development of the Right to Property in the European Convention on Human Rights with Brill. It deals not only with the evolving case-law on Article 1 of Protocol 1, but also places this in wider…
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Launch of ECHR AGORA
We reported on the online event on the ECHR and the Age of Backlash earlier this week here. That event will also serve as the launch of the new European platform AGORA, initiated by Andrew Forde and supported by this blog’s editors…
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New Book on Hate Speech and the ECHR
Natalie Alkiviadou, of Vanderbilt University, has published a new book entitled ‘Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights’ with Routledge Publishing. It focuses on the cal-law of the Court related to the limits of freedom of expressions in cases of…
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New Book on Superior Courts Network
The Council of Europe has just published an edited volume entitled The Superior Courts Network – A Community of Practice in the Service of Justice. The compilation includes contributions by former judges of the European Court of Human Rights as well as judges…
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New Book on International Cooperation and the ECHR
Prisca Feihle of the Free University Berlin has just published a new monograph entitled ‘An International Human Rights Law of Cooperation. International Cooperation, State Responsibility and the European Convention on Human Rights‘ with Edward Elgar Publishing. This is the abstract: ‘This incisive…
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Nine States Call for ‘Open-Minded Conversation’ on ECHR and Migration
In a very remarkable initiative, the heads of government and state of no less than nine European states together published an open letter yesterday calling for a shift in interpreting the ECHR in the field of migration, especially relating to ‘irregular migration’…