Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Book on ECHR History
Marco Duranti, a historian based at the University of Sydney, has written an important new study about the origins of the European Convention of Human Rights. The book, published by Oxford University Press, is entitled ‘The Conservative Human Rights Revolution -European Identity,…
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Event on Implementation of ECtHR Judgments in the UK
On 15 May, the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and Leicester Law School are organizing an event in London, entitled ‘Implementation of the European Court of Human Rights: Opportunities and Challenges for he Rule of Law’. The event will focus…
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Book on Procedural Review in European Fundamental Rights Cases
My colleague, SIM fellow and Utrecht University, Professor Janneke Gerards and Eva Brems of Ghent University have published a co-edited volume entitled ‘Procedural Review in European Fundamental Rights Cases‘ with Cambridge University Press. With a wide range of chapters, it unites and…
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Conference on Derogations from the ECHR and Situations of Emergency
On 4 May, the Institute of International Law and International Relations of the University of Graz is organising a confernece entitled “Derogation from the European Convention on Human Rights under Contemporary Situations of Emergency“. The conference will be held at the Faculty…
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My Article on Influence of ECHR Anti-Torture Jurisprudence on the UN Human Rights Committee
I have just posted on SSRN my new paper on jurisprudential influences of Strasbourg case-law on the work of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. It is entitled ‘Echoes of Strasbourg in Geneva. The Influence of ECHR Anti-Torture Jurisprudence on the United…
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Book on Equality of Arms under Article 6 ECHR
Omkar Sidhu has published the book ‘The Concept of Equality of Arms in Criminal Proceedings under Article 6 of The European Convention on Human Rights‘ with Intersentia Publishers. This is the abstract: “Inherent to and at the very core of the right…
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Enroll for May Edition of MOOC on ECHR
After two successful editions and over 8000 participants in total, we have now opened up enrollment for the third edition of the MOOC ‘Human Rights for Open Societies – An Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights‘. The starting date is…
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New ECHR Readings
At the end of the month a short list of recent ECHR-related writings: * Fiona de Londras (Birmingham University) and Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou (Liverpool University) have published ‘Mission Impossible? Addressing Non-Execution Through Infringement Proceedings in the European Court of Human Rights‘, in the…
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René Cassin Competition This Week
This week, the 32nd edition of the René Cassin Competition will be held in Strasbourg. It is the oldest French-language moot court competition on the European Convention on Human Rights. This year, the topic is health and European human rights law. Thirty…
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European Implementation Network has Director Vacancy
The European Implementation Network (EIN), set up last year, has opened a vacancy for a full-time Director to manage its organizational development and to develop and implement a programme of activities focused on delivering its mission. In its own words, ” is a…