Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Call for Papers for European Consensus Conference
On 1 June 2016, the University of Portsmouth School of Law, the European University Institute and the McCoubrey Centre for International Law of the University of Hull Law School will be organising a conference on the European consensus (EuC) method of interpretation…
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65 Years ECHR – Jekyll and Hyde in Strasbourg
Exactly one month ago, on 4 November 2015, the European Convention on Human Rights had been in existence for exactly 65 years. In 1950, thirteen Council of Europe Ministers signed the treaty in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. To commemorate that special…
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Reform of the European Court – Guest Post
Dear readers, it is my pleasure to introduce another guest post by one of this blog’s regular commentators, Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, of the University of Liverpool. He has written a comment on the final report on the long-term future of the Court, an intergovernmental…
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Seminar on Procedural Dialogue in the ECHR System
It is still some time away, but good to already inform you of it: on 26 January, Nijmegen University is organising a seminar at the Europe House in The Hague. The aim of the seminar, entitled ‘Procedural Dialogue in the European Convention…
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ECHR Readings
Please find below a selection of a number of books, articles and research papers on the ECHR which have been published in the past year (some of which I had overlooked earlier, more to follow in later posts). Enjoy reading! The newest…
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Guest Commentary on Grand Chamber Judgment Perinçek v Switzerland
On the important Grand Chamber judgment of Perinçek v. Switzerland, I am happy to introduce a guest commentary by dr Uladzislau Belavusau, an expert on freedom of expression and an assistant professor at the Free University Amsterdam. In his comment, he contextualises this…
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Commentary on Bouyid v Belgium
It is my pleasure to introduce a guest commentary on the Grand Chamber judgment of Bouyid v Belgium (Appl.no. 23380/09 ) of last September. The commentary was written by a colleague here at Utrecht University, dr Stephen Riley, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the…
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Liber Amicorum Dean Spielmann
At the occasion of the farewell of President Dean Spielmann, a Liber Amicorum has been published entitled ‘Liber amicorum Dean Spielmann. Mélanges en l`honneur de / Essays in honour of Dean Spielmann‘ by Wolf Legal Publishers. The beautiful tribute to the work of…
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ECHR Articles in New Issue of NQHR
The newest edition of the SIM-based Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR, No. 3, 2015)) features two articles on the European Convention: * Janneke Gerards, ‘The ECtHR’s Response to Fundamental Rights Issues Related to Financial and Economic Difficulties: The Problem of Compartmentalisation’ This…
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The Court’s Multilingual Twitter
This month, the Court has started a Twitter account in a variety of languages which will bring news on publications on and translations of case-law a well as the HUDOC case-law database. The Twitter is called ECHRpublication and has gained over 500 followers…