Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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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…
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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…