Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New Judge Elected in Respect of France
Last week, the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly elected a new judge to the European Court of Human Rights, in respect of Franc: Mattias Guyomar. He was elected by an absolute majority of votes cast in PACE (130 out of 239). Judge…
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Conference at the European Court of Human Rights on Women’s Rights
In two weeks, on 14 February 2020, the European Court of Human Rights, with the Fondation René Cassin – International Institute of Human Rights and with the support of the General Consulate of Japan in Strasbourg, will host a conference on ‘Women’s…
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ECHR MOOC Runs Again on 10 February 2020
On 10 February, our MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) ‘Human Rights for Open Societies. An Introduction into the European Convention on Human Rights’ starts again on the Coursera platform. This online course is for everyone who is interested in the protection of…
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Call for Papers 70 Years ECHR Conference at Ghent University
On 18-20 November 2020, the colleagues over at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University will be organising a conference to celebrate that the ECHR will turn 70 earlier that month. The conference ‘The European Convention on Human Rights turns 70. Taking…
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Guest Post on Hungary’s Suspension of Pilot Judgment Implementation
It is my pleasure to present another guest post by professor Renata Uitz of Central European University in Budapest. Her comments go into the decision of the Hungarian government of a few days ago of suspending the effect of the pilot judgment…
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New ECHR Readings
A very good new year for all the readers of the ECHR blog! please find below the newest selection of readings related to the ECHR and the Court: * Jeffrey Kahn, ‘The Relationship between the European Court of Human Rights and the…
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My new article Why Attacks on Civic Space Matter in Strasbourg
As the last post before the Christmas break, and with lots of interesting ECHR developments (not in the least today’s extensive interpretation of Articles 2 and 8 ECHR by the Dutch Supreme Court in its judgment today in the Urgenda case on…
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Call for Papers on Freedom of Expression Challenges and the ECHR
The Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School and the International Law and Human Rights Unit of the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice have published a call for papers on the theme of ‘Old and New Threats…
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Launch of New Journal: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review
The landscape of academic human rights journals continues to grow. It is a pleasure to announce here that two ECHR experts, Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou and by Vassilis Tzevelekos, are launching a new journal exclusively dedicated to the ECHR: the European Convention on Human…
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New Book on Fatherhood and the ECHR
Alice Margaria of the Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung has just published The Construction of Fatherhood. The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights with Cambridge University Press. A great example of combining social sciences and the law. The book has already…