Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Book on ECHR and Transitions
Dr. Inga Švarca has published the book ‘The Procedure of the European Court of Human Rights Regarding Countries in Transition. The ECtHR’s Transitional Justice Cases against Latvia’, which is also her PhD dissertation obtained at the University of Hamburg. Beyond being a case…
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New ECHR Readings
This Autumn presents a remarkable range of ECHR-related publications in academic journals and books. Please find below an extensive selection: The newest issue of the Journal of International Criminal Justice (Vol. 12, no. 4, 2014) includes: * Helen Keller and Corina Heri,…
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ECHR Articles in Newest NQHR
The newest issue (no. 3 of 2014) of SIM’s own Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights includes no less than three ECHR-related contributions: two articles and the column are dedicated to the ECHR: * Column: Lourdes Peroni, ‘On Religious and Cultural Equality in…
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Seminar on ECHR National Counter-Dynamics
On 30 and 31 October the universities of Antwerp and Leuven are co-organising a seminar entitled ‘Shifting the Convention System: Counter-dynamics at the National Level’ in Antwerp. According to the organisers, the seminar “aims to map out to what extent criticism on…
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News from SIM
Very happy to inform you that as of this week I have been appointed full professor of human rights and director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)! Last week was the formal hand-over ceremony at the occasion of the annual…
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New Book on Article 6 ECHR – Fair Trial Rights
Ryan Goss, lecturer in Law at the Australian National University in Canberra, has written a book which critically analyses what is probably the most litigated right in the Convention: Article 6 ECHR, the right to a fair trial. The book, entitled ‘Criminal…
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New Book on EU Accession to ECHR
The Council of Europe itself has now published a book on the ever-continuing story of the European Union’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. The book, entitled ‘The accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights’,…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a number of new readings related to the European Convention on Human Rights from a number of leading international legal journals: * Matthew Scott, ‘Natural Disasters, Climate Change and Non-Refoulement: What Scope for Resisting Expulsion under Articles 3 and…
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Lodging Applications in All Official Languages
The Court has finalized the translation of the applicant pages on its website. The information on how to apply is now available in all the official languages of the state parties to the Convention, ranging from Albanian to Ukrainian, and from Catalan…
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Two ECHR-related Conferences at Ghent University
The prolific Human Rights Centre of Ghent University is organising two conferences this Autumn, both of which are to an important degree about the ECHR: The first is a seminar on Law and Religion on 23 September. The entire afternoon of…