Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Seminar on Sexual Orientation and the ECHR
On Friday 16th May 2014 the University of York is organising a one-day seminar on “Sexual Orientation and the European Convention on Human Rights: Voices and Perspectives”. The seminar will be hosted at Heslington by the Department of Sociology and will explore and…
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Briefing Paper on Allocating Responsibility in Context of EU Accession to the ECHR
Maarten den Heijer and André Nollkaemper of the University of Amsterdam have written a briefing paper, following an expert seminar last October, on the issue of ‘A New Framework for Allocating International Responsibility: the EU Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights’,…
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Liber Amicorum Russian Judge Anatoly Kovler
At the occasion of the retirement from the European Court of the Russian judge Anatoly Kovler, a liber amicorum has been compiled in his honour by Olga Chernishova and Mikhail Lobov, entitled ‘Russia and the European Courtof Human Rights: a decade of change.…
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New Danish Judge at the Court
Yesterday, the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) elected Jon Fridrik Kjølbro to become the new judge at the Court in respect of Denmark. Kjølbro’s term will last nine years and will start within three months from now. He will succeed Peer Lorenzen, a longtime…
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Paperback Edition of Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR
I am very happy to announce that a paperback edition of the book I co-edited with Michael Hamilton – Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR. Justice, Politics and Rights – is now available with Cambridge University Press! The hardback edition dates from 2011,…
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Court President Spielmann in BBC Programme HardTalk
The President of the Court, Dean Spielmann, was recently interviewed in the BBC programme HardTalk, known for its tough questioning of guests. This is the excerpt the BBC used to advertise the show: Eight hundred million Europeans’ fundamental rights and liberties…
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Conference on ECHR and the Employment Relation
The University of Strasbourg is organising a European colloquy entitled “The European Convention on Human Rights and the Employment Relation” on 30 and 31 January. The conference will be held at the Maison interuniversitaire des sciences de l’homme – Alsace (Misha). The programme…
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More ECHR Journal Articles
A number of ECHR-related articles have been published in leading international journals in the past few months which I had not yet mentioned here: * Marek Szydło, F’ree Life after Life Imprisonment as a Human Right under the European Convention: European…
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New ECHR Online Reports and Case-Law Comments
Please find an overview below of recent ECHR-related Council of Europe reports and online coments on other blogs relatign to the ECHR, for your convenience. The first is a report adopted by the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the…
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New Book on European Human Rights Culture
Nina-Louisa Arold Lorenz, Xavier Groussot and Gunnar Thor Petursson have published an edited volume with Brill Publishers entitled ‘The European Human Rights Culture – A Paradox of Human Rights Protection in Europe?’. This is the abstract: The European Human Rights Culture…