Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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September Issue of NQHR Online
The September 2019 Issue (Vol. 37, No. 3) of our Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights is now online. It includes three articles directly related to the ECHR: * Eva Brems, ‘Positive subsidiarity and its implications for the margin of appreciation doctrine’: ‘The article…
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European Human Rights Moot Court Competition
The call for applications for the 8th edition of the European Human Rights Moot Court Competition (EHRMCC) has been put online. The EHRMCC is the largest English-language human rights moot court competition in the world. It offers excellent opportunities for students from…
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MOOC on ECHR Open for Participation Again
This month, the newest run of our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR ‘Human Rights for Open Societies‘ is open for participation again (and a next edition will run from November onwards for which you can register already). Join the…
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Updated Case-Law Guide on Article 1 ECHR
The Court has now made an updated version of its case-law guide on Article 1 ECHR available on its website. The Convention provision, as is well-known, provides that states “shall secure to everyone within their jurisdiction” the rights in the Convention. The…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a number of new ECHR-related readings for Summer reading: * Stephen Skinner, Lethal Force, the Right to Life and the ECHR. Narratives of Death and Democracy (Bloomsbury Professional; book): ‘In its case law on the use of lethal and…
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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…