Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Guest Blog : Minimalist Compliance in the UK Prisoner Voting Rights Cases
It is my pleasure to introduce another guest blog to you – this time by Andreas von Staden of the University of Hamburg. He has made an insightful analysis of Strasbourg’s prisoner voting rights cases from the perspective of implementation, building on the findings…
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Book on ECHR as Tort Law
Stefan Somers (Free University Brussels) has written a new book on a less often studied aspect of the ECHR system – its use as tort law. The book, published with Intersentia, is entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights as an Instrument…
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ECHR Articles in Latest HRLR
The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2018) includes no less than four ECHR related Articles: * Robert Spano (ECtHR), ‘The Future of the European Court of Human Rights—Subsidiarity, Process-Based Review and the Rule of…
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Conference on Detained Persons and the ECHR
The European Prison Litigation Network (EPLN) is organising the international conference “Overcoming obstacles to the access of detained persons to rights and the judge: European perspectives” at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on 6 and 7 December. The full programme…
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Call for Papers on ‘the Greek Case’ after 50 Years
Next year will mark 50 years since the famous ‘Greek case’ in the ECHR system, when the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden lodged a complaint with the (then still existing) European Commission of Human Rights against the military colonels’ regime in Greece.…
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Short Introduction to the ECHR
For those readers who want a quick and short introduction into the system of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Council of Europe has produced a new and concise book, authored by Martyn Bond ( a journalist and former European civil…
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Book on ECHR and General International Law
Professor Anne van Aaken (University of St. Gallen) and ECtHR Judge Julia Motoc (also connected to the University of Bucharest) have published the edited volume ‘The European Convention on Human Rights and General International Law‘ in the European Society of International Law…
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Handbook on Implementation of ECtHR Judgments
The European Implementation Network has published a new handbook entitled ‘Implementation of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights – A Handbook for NGOs, injured parties and their legal advisers‘. The handbook is a great ‘how-to” guide for civil society organisations…
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New Book on Strategies of Compliance and the European Court
Andreas von Staden (University of Hamburg) has published the new book Strategies of Compliance with the European Court of Human Rights. Rational Choice Within Normative Constraints, in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series. This is the abstract: ‘In Strategies of Compliance…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a range of recent academic articles and publications about the European Convention and the European Court: * My Utrecht colleague Janneke Gerards has just published (open access) the article ‘Margin of Appreciation and Incrementalism in the Case Law of…