Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Conference on Long-Term Future of European Court
On 7 and 8 April the University of Oslo is organising a conference entitled ‘The long-term future of the European Court of Human Rights’. Participation is by invitation only, but on the conference information page one can find contact info to show…
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Speech of Court President Spielmann
Recently, the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Dean Spielmann, held a speech in the Frauenkirche in Dresden, Germany. The speech, entitled ‘Menschenrechte in Europa – Beiwerk oder Basis?’ is now available on the Court’s website. The speech, in German, goes into…
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New ECHR Readings
After a wonderful conference in snowy Iceland, I am back in Utrecht with an update of relevant new ECHR-related literature. The newest few issues of the European Human Rights Law Review include a number of articles on the ECHR. In no. 6…
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European Human Rights Moot Court Competition
The second edition of the European Moot Court Competition on the ECHR is organised this week in Strasbourg, at the Court, by the European Law Students’ Association (ELSA). The case on which this year’s Moot Court is based, an interesting and at times…
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New ECHR Readings
A number of new readings and reports have been published on the European Court and the European Convention recently. To mention a few relevant ones: The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 14, no. 1, 2014) includes: …
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Shaping Rights in the ECHR Book
Eva Brems and Janneke Gerards, esteemed colleagues from Ghent University in Belgium and Radboud University in the Netherlands respectively, have edited a new book on the scope of fundamental rights, entitled ‘Shaping Rights in the ECHR. The Role of the European Court…
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Creative Ideas on the Future of the Court
Two months ago the Council of Europe launched an open call and invited contributions on the reform and future of the European Convention of Human Rights system. A large number of creative ideas were submitted by an equally wide range of NGOs,…
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Guest Post on Grand Chamber Judgment in O’Keeffe v Ireland
I am happy to introduce a new guest post by professor Renáta Uitz of Central European University in Budapest, who has earlier contributed to this blog, this time on the recent Grand Chamber judgment in O’Keeffe v Ireland, dealing with victims of…
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Video on Execution of the Court’s Judgments
A short and simple video has been made by the Council of Europe explaining in plain terms how the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights are executed and how the Committee of Ministers’ supervises this. Apart from English, the video is…
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Court Statistics over 2013 and Other Strasbourg News
Last week the Judicial Year 2014 officially started in Strasbourg at the European Court of Human Rights. In what has become an anuual tradiiton, the Court’s President, Dean Spielmann looked back at the past year, highlighting the most important developments. The most…