Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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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…
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New Book on EU Accession to the ECHR
In Hart’s Legal Publishing series on Modern Studies in European Law, Vasiliki Kosta, Nikos Skoutaris and Vassilis Tzevelekos have published the edited volume The EU Accession to the ECHR. This wide-ranging volume includes over twenty chapters, a few of which were published…
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New ECHR Readings
Here is another selection of recent academic writings on the European Convention of Human Rights. The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 14, no. 3, September 2014) has been published. Its contents include: * Robert Spano, ‘Universality or Diversity…
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New Edition of Jacobs White & Ovey ECHR Handbook
This summer also witnessed the publication of a new version of one of the other widely used handbooks about the ECHR: Jacobs, White & Ovey, The European Convention on Human Rights. This revised sixth edition was edited by Benadette Rainey (Cardiff University),…
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New Edition of ECHR Handbook Harris Warbrick and O’Boyle
As announced last week in a guest post, the newest, third edition of the classic Harris, O’Boyle and Warbrick, Law of the European Convention of Human Rights has been published with OUP by Harris, O’Boyle, Bates, and Buckley. It is always an…
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Fact Sheet on Gender Identity Issues Updated
The Court has put online a fully updated factsheet on gender identity issues, with the subtitle ‘from the Rees case to the Christine Goodwin case’ referring to the gradual shift over the years – often used in teaching about the Convention – in…
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Putting the Potential UK Withdrawal from the ECHR into Perspective
Nowhere in Europe does the discussion about the legitimacy (beyond government circles, which in any state party might be unhappy with the Court’s judgments at times) of the Strasbourg system seem to be so intense as in the United Kingdom. It is…