Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Blog Anniversary – 5 Years!
Yesterday, 26 May, it was exactly five years ago that I started this blog on the European Convention of Human Rights. Looking back at the first post, I see that I had a rather grand aim of being “a portal to information on…
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Protocol 15 to the ECHR Adopted
Last week, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the new Protocol 15 to the European Convention of Human Rights. It will be be opened for signature at the end of June and will enter into force three months…
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Book on Constitutional Relevance of the ECHR
Giorgio Repetto has just published an edited volume with Intersentia entitled ‘The Constitutional Relevance of the ECHR in Domestic and European Law. An Italian Perspective’. This is the abstract: In recent years the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) gained unexpected relevance…
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ECHR Articles in Liber Amicorum Pieter van Dijk
A liber amicorum for the recently retired Dutch jurist Pieter van Dijk, also a former judge at the European Court of Human Rights, has been published with Intersentia. It is entiteld ‘Fundamental Rights and Principles. Liber Amicorum Pieter van Dijk’ and includes the…
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New ECHR Publications
Please find below another batch of new academic articles on the European Convention of Human Rights: * E. Brems and L. Lavryse, ‘Procedural justice in human rights adjudication: the European Court of Human Rights’, Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1 (2013) …
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New Book Constituting Europe
Next month, the book ‘Constituting Europe. The European Court of Human Rights in a National, European and Global Context’ will be published by Cambridge UP. It was edited by Andreas Follesdal, Birgit Peters, and Geir Ulfstein. It especially looks at multilevel issues of interaction of…
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Tymoshenko Judgment – Former Ukranian Prime Minister Arbitrarily Detained
Today, the Court issued its judgment in the very sensitive case of Yuliya Tymoshenko, the currently detained former prime minister of Ukraine. Tymoshenko’s predicament has already led to political tensions within Ukraine, obviously, but also between Ukraine and other countries (as well…
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PACE Approves Draft Protocol 15
Today, just before the start of the weekend, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved Draft Protocol 15 to the ECHR. With a large majority it voted in favour. Without any amendment being necessary in the view of PACE,…
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Seminar on ECHR and Detention Conditions
The Academy of European Law (ERA) is organising a seminar in Strasbourg on 20-21 June on ‘The European Convention’s, European Court of Human Rights’ and national courts’ roles in improving conditions related to detention.’ The seminar will analyse the roles of the…
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Animal Defenders International v. UK Grand Chamber Judgment – Ban on Political Advertising Upheld
At the start of this week, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights upheld the United Kingdom’s ban on political advertising for TV and radio in Animal Defenders International v the United Kingdom. The NGO Animal Defenders International had…