Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below an overview of recent and less recent (but not yet mentioned on this blog) literature on the European Convention and the European Court of Human Rights: * N. Bratza, ‘Living instrument or dead letter – the future of the…
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Election of Judges and Independence of the European Court of Human Rights
To increase the quality and precision of its work in the election of new judges to the Court, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has created a special committee. This committee will consist of twenty members and meet behind closed…
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Six New ECHR Case-Law Fact Sheets
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights has added six new factsheets to its growing collection (now around fifty) of accessible, thematic overviews of its own jurisprudence. The full list of factsheets can be found here, with some factsheets being available…
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Book on ECHR in National Case-Law
Janneke Gerards and Joseph Fleuren of Radboud University Nijmegen have just published a book on the different ways in which national courts have dealt with the ECHR and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights in their own jurisprudence. The…
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Report on Reinforcing the Court’s Independence
Rapporteur Boriss Cilevičs, a member of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly from Latvia, has written a report aimed to support and further strengthen the independence of the European Court of Human Rights. The report reads, in its first part, as a concise introduction…
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Book on Legitimate Expectations and the ECHR
Maya Sigron has written a monograph on the concept of legitimate expectations under the right to property. The book, entitled “Legitimate Expectations Under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights” has been published with Intersentia. This…
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Court Reform Compilation Document
The Council of Europe has compiled a large document of over 500 pages which reflects the ongoing reform efforts regarding the European Court of Human Rights of the last few years. It is entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights : Interlaken,İzmir,…
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Summer School on European Human Rights
The Center for European Law of the University of Bologna, in cooperation with King’s College London and the University of Strasbourg are organising their XIVth joint edition of the Summer School on the protection of fundamental rights in Europe. The Summer School,…
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ECHR Guide for Lawyers
The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has published a special guide entitled ‘The European Court of Human Rights – Questions and Answers for Lawyers’ online. The small booklet can be seen as a very practical, albeit also quite…
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Conference: Fundamental Rights in Europe – A Matter for Two Courts
On Friday 13 June, Oxford Brookes University and the Council of Europe are organising a conference in Strasbourg entitled ‘Fundamental Rights in Europe: A Matter for Two Courts’. The event is meant to discuss and disseminate the research emerging from two projects.…