Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New ECHR-Related Papers on SSRN
A number of new papers on the ECHR have recently been put on the Social Science Research Network. Here is a short overview: Normal 0 21 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes;…
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German Yearbook of International Law Contributions on ECHR
0 The newest edition of the German Yearbook of International Law / Jahrbuch für Internationales Recht (2012) has now been published. Its extensive contents include a whole range of articles about the European Convention on Human Rights and the Court’s case-law. Here…
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Protocol 16 ECHR Opened for Signature
This week, Protocol 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights was opened for signature in Strasbourg. The Protocol which introduces the possibility for the highest national courts to ask the European Court for an advisory opinion is a product of the…
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New Judge Elected in Respect of Romania
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected a new judge in respect of Romania, Iulia Motoc. She was elected with an overwhelming majority of 132 out of 149 votes cast. Interestingly, one of the two other candidates was no…
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Conference in Russia on ECHR Education
In the context of the Dutch-Russian Cultural year, a consortium of Russian organizations will hold a conference dedicated to ECHR Education in Russia and across Europe in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on 21 and 22 October. The organisers are: the Ombudsman in the Sverdlovsk…
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New Issue HRLR
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 13, issue 3, September 2013) has been published. Its contents include the following ECHR-related articles (one of which I have mentioned before): * Stijn Smet, ‘Conflicts between Absolute Rights: A Reply to…
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New ECHR Academic Articles
Having returned from an inspiring conference on the effects and implementation of Strasbourg judgments at the University of Göttingen in Germany, here follows a new round of recent ECHR publications in academic journals. The first one is from the latest edition of…
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Article on EU-ECHR Integration
Professor Piet Eeckhout of University College London has published an interesting article on what the European Union’s accession to the ECHR will mean for the EU. Specifically it reconsiders legal pluralism theories in this respects and argues for an integration of laws…
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New ECHR Readings
The newest edition of SIM Current Contents with articles on human rights (August 2013) is available now. It includes a large number of ECHR-related publications, some very recent, some a bit older. In as far as I have not notified them on…
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New Book on EU Accession to ECHR
The conference proceedings of the 8th congress of the Societas Iuris Publici Europaei (SIPE), held in Lisbon in 2011, have now been published in the book “The Accession of the European Union to the ECHR”. The book, with contributions in English, German…