Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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The Draft Copenhagen Declaration – Comment Series IV
Building on the earlier contributions, in today’s fourth episode, my Utrecht colleague Janneke Gerards comments on the different roles the Courts has played and can play and how that should be reflected in the draft Declaration: The draft Copenhagen Declaration and the…
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The Draft Copenhagen Declaration – Comment Series III
The third episode in our series on the draft Copenhagen Declaration focuses on process-based review and was written by my Utrecht colleague and SIM fellow Leonie Huijbers: The Draft Copenhagen Declaration – Process-based review and subsidiarity Leonie Huijbers, PhD Candidate, Utrecht University…
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The Draft Copenhagen Declaration – Comment Series II
We continue our comment series on the draft Copenhagen Declaration with a second contribution, by dr Lize Glas of Radboud University Nijmegen, on the ‘dialogue’ aspects of the draft text: The Draft Copenhagen Declaration: ‘New Ways’ to ensure a ‘Strengthened Dialogue’? Lize…
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The Draft Copenhagen Declaration – Comment Series I
The ever-ongoing discussions about the Strasbourg Convention system have reached a new stage with the recent publication of a controversial draft Copenhagen Declaration by the current Danish chairmanship of the Council of Europe. In a special cooperation with the Strasbourg Observers blog,…
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Book on Core Socio-Economic Rights and the ECHR
Dr Ingrid Leijten (Leiden University) has published a new book based on her PhD dissertation with Cambridge University Press. It is entitled Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. This is the abstract: ‘Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European…
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Looking Back and Ahead for the Court
The opening of the judicial year (at the end of last month) always marks a moment of stock-taking for the European Court of Human Rights. In his main speech, the President of the Court, judge Guido Raimondi, expressed both optimism and caution.…
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Reminder – Call for Papers for Workshop at the Court
A reminder about a unique opportunity for academic researchers to present their work at the European Court itself: On 21 September 2018, a group of leading academic centres in Europe, including our own Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), is co-organising a…
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Conference on Margin of Appreciation at Court
The Centre for Law and Public Affairs (CeLAPA) and the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague are organising a seminar at the premises of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Thursday 15 February. The seminar is entitled…
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New ECHR Case-Law Factsheets
This week the Court has put online five new case-law factsheets. They are the newest additions to a growing corpus of more than sixty factsheets available on the Court’s website. They provide quick overviews of core case-law on a large range of…
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New ECHR Publications
Please find below a number of recent publications related to the European Convention and the European Court: * Our own Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 35, no. 4 (2017) includes: Julia Wojnowska-Radzinska (Adam Mickiewicz University), ‘The access to secret evidence in…