Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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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…
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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…