Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Book on Family Rights and the ECHR
Carmen Draghici (City University London School) has just published the book ‘Legitimacy of Family Rights in Strasbourg Case Law- ‘Living Instrument’ or Extinguished Sovereignty?‘ with Hart Publishing. It is both available as hardback and e-book. This is the book’s abstract: ‘Modern family…
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ESIL – European Court Conference on Migration
Pre-announcement: the European Society for International Law and the European Court of Human Rights will co-organise a one-day conference on ‘Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights’. The conference will take place on Friday 6 October 2017 at at the Court…
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MOOC on the ECHR Open for Registration
After its very successful first airing, with over 5000 participants at the end of last year, we will again run our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) starting next week 13 February. Registration is open now! To enroll, please go to the Coursera…
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Conference on Principled Resistance Against European Court Judgments
Professor Marten Breuer of the Law School of the University of Konstanz in Southern Germany is organising a conference entitled “Principled Resistance against ECtHR Judgments – a New Paradigm?”. It will take place in the town hall of Konstanz on 1 and…
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The Court in 2016: Overview
At his annual press conference today, the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Guido Raimondi, presented an overview of the Court’s work over the past year. The most important issues: in 2016, for the first time after a two-year decrease,…
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New Judges in respect of the Netherlands and Hungary
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected two new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. For the Netherlands, judge Jolien Schukking was elected. Judge Schukking was preferred over two other similarly very well-qualified Dutch ECHR experts, professors…
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Guest Post on Grand Chamber Judgment in Hutchinson
As the first post of the new year on the ECHR Blog, it is my pleasure to introduce a guest post by Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou of the University of Liverpool on this week’s Grand Chamber judgment on life sentences without parole in the…
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End of Year ECHR Readings
As the year wraps up, please find a final selection of ECHR-related readings of 2016. I wish all the readers of this blog a good 2017! * Stijn Smet, Resolving Conflicts between Human Rights. The Judge’s Dilemma (Routledge Publishers 2016): Under the…
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Conference on the European Court and Media Freedom
On 24 March 2017, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, supported by the Council of Europe, will organsie a conference on media freedom in Strasbourg. The conference, entitled “Promoting dialogue between the ECtHR and the media freedom community”. will be…
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MHB v Hungary Judgment on Access to Information
It is my pleasure to introduce a guest post in the form of a commentary by professor Renata Uitz of Central European University. She has written a commentary on the recent case of Magyar Helsinki Bizottság v. Hungary, on which the European Court…