Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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ECHR Travaux Préparatoires Open Access Online
It has been some years in the making, but a key set of documents, the Convention’s Travaux Préparatoires, have now been made open access online, as a result of a collaboration beween the European Court of Human Rights and De Gruyter Brill…
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New ECHR Blog Year
Our very best wishes for the new year to all our readers. Amidst the whirlwind of international news and the flouting of international law and human and fundamental rights, this blog will continue to provide news, thorough analysis and announcements on everything…
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New Edition of Frowein and Peukert ECHR Handbook
The newest, fourth edition of one of the key classic handbooks on the ECHR in the German language has been published: Frowein / Peukert, EMRK-Kommentar at N.P. Engel Verlag. In the spirit of its original authors, Jochen Abr. Frowein und Wolfgang Peukert, a…
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FRA Note on EU Accession to ECHR
The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) of the European Union has just published a note with questions and answers about the accession of the EU to the ECHR. More information from the Council of Europe on the process and its history, including the…
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Lize Glas and Corina Heri Join as ECHR Blog Editors
It is our great pleasure to expand the team of the ECHR Blog with two new editors: Lize Glas and Corina Heri. With the ever-evolving developments, both in practice, in case-law and academia, around the European Convention of Human Rights, it is wonderful…
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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…