Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New Book on Pilot Judgment Procedure
A new book on the Court’s pilot judgment procedure has been published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. It is entitled ‘The Pilot-Judgment Procedure of the European Court of Human Rights’ and was written by Dominik Haider of the University of Vienna. This is the abstract…
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New ECHR Academic Articles
The newest update of human rights “current contents” (June 2013), from a very wide range of academic sources, has been put online by our SIM documentation team. The articles specifically related to the European Convention and the European Court include: * F. Dorssemont,…
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Article on Environmental Litigation at the ECtHR
Riccardo Pavoni of the University of Siena has posted a paper on SSRN entitled ‘Public Interest Environmental Litigation and the European Court of Human Rights: No Love at First Sight‘. The paper will be published later on in: F. Lenzerini & A.F. Vrdoljak eds., International…
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Article on Margin of Appreciation and Environmental Law
The newest issue of Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 2, Issue 2, July 2013) includes an article on the margin of appreciation and environmental law. The article, by Chris Hilson of the University of Reading, is entitled ‘The margin of appreciation, domestic irregularity and…
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New Book on European Court Criticisms
Spyridon Flogaitis, Tom Zwart, and Julie Fraser have edited the book ‘The European Court Of Human Rights And Its Discontents. Turning Criticism into Strength’ which has just been publsihed with Edward Elgar Publishing. This is the abstract: The European Court of Human Rights…
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Liber Amicorum Vincent Berger
To honour one of the most experienced lawyers at the heart of the Strasbourg system, Vincent Berger (the retiring jurisconsult of the Court) a liber amircorum has been published. It was edited by Leif Berg, Montserrat Enrich Mas, Peter Kempees and Dean…
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New Icelandic and Lithuanian Judges Elected
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected to new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. In respect of Lithuania, Egidius Kuris was elected by a large majority. Mr Kuris is currently professor of public law at Vilnius…
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New Book on EU Accession to ECHR
After a range of articles on the issue, a monograph has now been published on the EU’s forthcoming accession to the ECHR. The book, written by Paul Gragl of the City University of London, is entitled ‘The Accession of the European Union…
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My New Article on Freedom of Expression and ECHR & ICCPR
I have just posted on SSRN my contribution entitled ‘Tacit Citing – The Scarcity of Judicial Dialogue between the Global and the Regional Human Rights Mechanisms in Freedom of Expression Cases’ for the book: Tarlach McGonagle and Yvonne Donders (eds.), The United…
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Conference on Effects and Implementation of ECtHR Judgments
On 20 and 21 September a large conference entitled ‘Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights – Effects and Implementation’ is organised at the Institute of International Law at Goettingen University in Germany. The convenors are Mark Villiger, section president at…