Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Book on Principled Resistance to ECtHR Judgments
A bit over two years ago, professor Marten Breuer of the University of Konstanz organised a great expert conference on the issue of states and their domestic courts resisting in various more or less principled ways the judgments of the European Court…
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Information on Involvement of Civil Society and NHRIs in Execution of Judgments Phase
While in law schools we tend to focus ourselves and our students on the judgments of the Court (and so do many practitioners), a crucial phase, that of implementation, of course only starts after a judgment has been delivered. In the ECHR…
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CoE Book on Individual Application under the ECHR
The President of the European Court of Human Rights, Linos-Alexandra Sicilianos, and Maria-Andriani Kostopoulou, a lawyer at the Greek Court of Cassation, have co-authored a new concise book (180 pages), entitled The individual application under the European Convention on Human Rights. It has just…
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Miscellaneous News from the Court and the Council of Europe
A number of developments to note at the Court and the Council of Europe this time. This week, the Parliamentary Assembly elected two new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. In respect of Germany, Anja Seibert-Fohr, was elected. A well-known…
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Book on the Separation of Powers in ECtHR Case-Law
Aikaterini Tsampi, of the University of Groningen, has published a book on the separation of powers in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. The book, written in French, is entitled Le principe de séparation des pouvoirs dans la jurisprudence…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new batch of academic ECHR readings: * Meltem Ineli-Ciger, ‘Remedies Available against Asylum Decisions and Deportation Orders in Turkey: An Assessment in View of European Law and the European Convention on Human Rights’, Nordic Journal of International Law,…
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New Case-Law Guide on Protection of Property
In its ever-increasing collection of case-law guides, the European Court of Human Rights has just now published for the first time a guide on Article 1 of the Convention’s First Protocol, the protection of property. Considering that this is among the most…
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Call for Contributions to ECHR Domestic Implementation Handbook
The European Implementation Network, a hub of European civil society aimed at increasing the timely and effective implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, has launched a call for contributions. The project is to create a handbook on…
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Finding and Understanding ECHR Case-Law
Having trouble to find relevant or important new case-law amidst the large stream of cases decided in Strasbourg? The Case-Law Information and Publications Division of the Directorate of the Jurisconsult has published an online guide to help you out. It is entitled…
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First Infringement Proceedings Judgment of the European Court : Ilgar Mammadov v Azerbaijan
It is a season of firsts for the European Court of Human Rights. After its first Advisory Opinion under Protocol 16 last month, about which I reported earlier, this week the Grand Chamber has handed down its first judgment re infringement proceedings:…