Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Lecture by Court’s President on Judicial Dialogue
Earlier this week, the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Dean Spielmann, in one of the last weeks of his term, delivered the Thomas More lecture at Lincoln’s Inn in London. The lecture, entitled “Whither Judicial Dialogue”, president Spielmann argues…
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Guest Blog: Court Judgment on Electoral Irregularities in Azerbaijan
It is a pleasure to introduce a guest post by one of my colleagues, Paulien de Morree, a PhD researcher here at Utrecht University. She has written a short commentary on the judgment of the Court of this week in Gahramanli and others…
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New Book on UK and European Human Rights
The difficult relation between the United Kingdom and European human rights institutions has become a ‘topos’ in academic literature, as literary scholars would call it. A new book has just been published to take stock of these discussions. Katja S Ziegler, Elizabeth…
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Court Launches Case-Law Exchange Network with Highest Courts
This week, the European Court of Human Rights created a network aimed at the exchange of information on case-law between Strasbourg and the highest national courts. The idea was announced at the opening of the judicial year and supported by the Council…
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Article 46 ECHR to the Rescue?
This week, both the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the President of the European Court of Human Rights have called upon the Committee of Ministers to start making use of the ‘infringement’ procedure of Article 46 ECHR, introduced…
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New President of the Court Elected (and conference announcement)
Yesterday, The European Court of Human Rights elected amongst its midst a new President, the judge in respect of Italy, Guido Raimondi. He will take office as of 1 November, succeeding current President Dean Spielmann. Judge Raimondi has been working at the…
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The European Court of Human Rights Uncovered – Infographic
Much of the discussion in the past years around the European Court of Human Rights and about human rights in general in the media and even among some academics has been based on misperceptions coming from a lack of informed views. In…
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Workshop on ECHR in Tampere Finland
On October 22 and 23, the University of Tampere in Finland is organising a workshop on the European Court of Human Rights for doctoral students. The University would like to invite ten to fifteen doctoral students from different universities. The workshop is intended…
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New Registrar for the Court
Yesterday, the judges of the European Court of Human Rights, sitting in plenary, elected a new registrar, Mr Roderick Liddell. The registrar leads the legal and administrative support staff of the Court, comprising over 600 people. They process and prepare the complaints…
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New Judges Elected in Strasbourg
Last week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected four new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. These elections followed the recommendations of the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights. In respect…