Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Accession of EU to ECHR Draft Agreement: Finally Finalised
It has taken some time, not just because of the legal complexities but also because of political reasons, but now it is finally there: this past Friday the Draft Agreement on Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human…
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UK Prisoner Voting Rights Update
The continuing saga of voting rights for prisoners in the United Kingdom now includes a new episode. This week the Court decided (in an unpublished decision) to adjourn the consideration of over 2,500 prisoner voting rights cases until at the latest September 2013.…
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New Issue IAEHR
The newest edition of the annual journal Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal (vol. 5, nos. 1-2, 2013) is out now. It includes at least two articles on the European Convention: * Erick Acuña Pereda, ‘The Institutionalization of People with Mental Disabilities: Comparative Analysis between…
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Another Hurdle Taken for Protocol 15
Last week, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) agreed that Draft Protocol 15, which aims to reform several aspects of the Convention system, could be adopted without amendment. It did so on the basis…
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Oleynikov Judgment on State Immunity
It is my pleasure to introduce a guest post by Dr Rosanne van Alebeek, a fellow human rights expert. She is an assistant professor and senior researcher at the University of Amsterdam and has particular expertise on the subject of immunities and human…
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Pirate Bay Decision on Copyright and Freedom of Expression
Last week, The European Court issued its decision in the case submitted by two of the founders of Pirate Bay, Neij and Sunde Kolmisoppi v. Sweden. The two had been convicted for copyright infringements. The Court has recently held that copyright enforcement…
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Debate on Lautsi in ICON
The newest issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON, vol. 11, issue 1, 2013) includes a debate on the famous Lautsi judgments of the European Court on allowing a crucifix in classrooms (see my post on the Grand Chamber judgment…
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‘Casse-toi, pauv’ con’ Satire Judgment
The former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has a reputation for being very direct and blunt. In a famous encounter at the annual ‘Salon de l’Agriculture’ in France a few years ago, when one of the visitors refused to shake his hands and…
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New and Updated Case-Law Factsheets
The case-law factsheets of the Court have been updated and extended. In addition, translations in French, Russian, German, Polish, and Turkish are available on the Court’s website. Please find a list below of those factsheets which have been updated in the past half…
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Article on the Haas Judgment on Facilitating Suicide
Daniel Rietiker, working at the registry of the European Court of Human Rights, has published an article on the Haas case in the Harvard Human Rights Journal (vol. 25, 2012) entitled ‘From Prevention to Facilitation? Suicide in the Jurisprudence of the ECtHR in…