Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New Edition of Van Dijk and Van Hoof Handbook on the ECHR
Dear readers, my very best wishes for the new year 2018 to all of you! It is my great pleasure to announce the publication of the newest (fifth) edition of the famous handbook on the ECHR of Van Dijk and Van Hoof…
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New Book on ECHR and Judicial Activism and Passivism
Professor Adam Wiśniewski of the University of Gdansk has published a book on the stance and position of the European Court in Strasbourg. The book, entitled The European Court of Human Rights. Between Judicial Activism and Passivism, has been published with Gdansk…
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New Book on the Use of Force and Article 2 ECHR
Dr Hannah Russell of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has just published a new book on the right to life with Hart Publishing, entitled ‘The Use of Force and Article 2 of the ECHR in Light of European Conflicts‘. This is…
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Videos on the European Court
The special web page of the website of the European Court on Human Rights that is dedicated to short videos on the Court and its procedures has been further extended. It now also includes new language versions of the film about the…
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Article on Baka and the Rule of Law
David Kosař and Katarína Šipulová of Masaryk University have written: ‘The Strasbourg Court Meets Abusive Constitutionalism: Baka v. Hungary and the Rule of Law‘, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law (2017). This is the abstract: ‘The rise of abusive constitutionalism in Central and Eastern…
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Report on Selection of Judges
The International Commission of Jurists and the Open Society Justice Initiative have published a report on the selection of human rights judges (including at the European Court of Human Rights). The report, entitled ‘Strengthening from Within. Law and Practice in the Selection…
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Fifth Edition of Free Online Course on ECHR
This coming Monday 23 October, we are launching the fifth edition of our successful and free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR. It is entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies. An introduction into the European Convention on Human Rights‘ and…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below another batch of new academic writings about the European Convention and the European Court: * Elisa Ravasi, Human Rights Protection by the ECtHR and the ECJ – A Comparative Analysis in Light of the Equivalency Doctrine (Brill 2017): ‘In her…
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Call for Papers: Workshop at European Court of Human Rights
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 workshop at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The workshop is entitled: Responding to Legitimacy Challenges:…
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Book on Clashing Rights at the European Court
The excellent colleagues over at the Ghent Human Rights Centre have published a new book on conflicts between rights in Strasbourg. The book, edited by dr Stijn Smet and professor Eva Brems, is entitled When Human Rights Clash at the European Court…