Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Launch of ECHR AGORA
We reported on the online event on the ECHR and the Age of Backlash earlier this week here. That event will also serve as the launch of the new European platform AGORA, initiated by Andrew Forde and supported by this blog’s editors…
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New Book on Hate Speech and the ECHR
Natalie Alkiviadou, of Vanderbilt University, has published a new book entitled ‘Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights’ with Routledge Publishing. It focuses on the cal-law of the Court related to the limits of freedom of expressions in cases of…
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New Book on Superior Courts Network
The Council of Europe has just published an edited volume entitled The Superior Courts Network – A Community of Practice in the Service of Justice. The compilation includes contributions by former judges of the European Court of Human Rights as well as judges…
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New Book on International Cooperation and the ECHR
Prisca Feihle of the Free University Berlin has just published a new monograph entitled ‘An International Human Rights Law of Cooperation. International Cooperation, State Responsibility and the European Convention on Human Rights‘ with Edward Elgar Publishing. This is the abstract: ‘This incisive…
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Nine States Call for ‘Open-Minded Conversation’ on ECHR and Migration
In a very remarkable initiative, the heads of government and state of no less than nine European states together published an open letter yesterday calling for a shift in interpreting the ECHR in the field of migration, especially relating to ‘irregular migration’…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of academic writing related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Spyridoula Katsoni, ‘Is the Obligation Not to Refoule a Positive Obligation? An Intermediate Approach Toward the Classification Dilemma’, Human Rights Law Review (2025):…
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L. and Others v. France: Sexist Judicial Bias, Himpathy and Victim-Blaming
Guest post by Margarita S. Ilieva, strategic international equality and human rights litigator Introduction In L. et Autres c. France, for the first time, the Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged that judicial reasoning which negatively stereotypes, blames and therefore revictimises (secondary…
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Book on Gender and the Court
Sanna Elfving of the University of Lincoln (UK) has published the book Gender and the European Court of Human Rights with Routledge. Following her earlier work on the European Court of Justice, this book approaches the Strasbourg Court from a similar perspective. This is…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of academic readings related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Mohammad Mohammadi, Martijn Wieling and Michel Vols, ‘An interpretable approach to detect case law on housing and eviction issues within the…
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Book on Sentencing Mentally Disordered Offenders and the ECHR
Candan Yilmaz of the University of Groningen has published the book Sentencing Mentally Disordered Offenders: comparing provisions in Türkiye, England and Wales, and the Netherlands to the ECHR framework with Groningen University Press. The book, based on her PhD dissertation, is available…