Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Eweida and Others Judgment Part II – The Religion Cases
As announced earlier, here is the second part of comments on the Eweida and others v the United Kingdom Judgment. This second guest post will focus on the two cases within the judgment which are most closely tied to freedom of religion.…
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Opening Judicial Year Strasbourg
Today is the formal opening of the judicial year at the European court of Human Rights. At this occasion a seminar on “Implementing the European Convention on Human Rights in times of economic crisis” is held.Yesterday, the president of the Court, currently…
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Copyright vs Freedom of Expression Judgment
Earlier this month, the Court issued an important judgment, Ashby Donald and others v France (judgment in French), on the tensions between copyright law and the freedom of expression. It is my great pleasure to put online a guest post about this…
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Eweida and Others Judgment Part I – The Sexual Orientation Cases
Last week the European Court of Human Rights issued its keenly awaited judgment in Eweida and Others v the United Kingdom, a collection of four different cases which relate to diversity issues. Two of them are more specifically about sexual orientation and…
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Updates on New ECHR Protocols
It’s been some time now since I last wrote on the reform process of the Court and the two new protocols to the Convention (15 and 16) – see here and here. The Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) met at the…
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New ECHR Publications
The new year brings us a whole basket of new ECHR-related publications, partly collected by our own SIM documentation team with their very helpful monthly online contents on human rights (find the most recent December overview here). * L. Hodson, ‘Ties that…
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Ironies of (In)justice in Ukraine and Strasbourg
My two previous blog posts are connected in a very surprising way. I reported last week on the judgment in Volkov v Ukraine, about a judge who had been removed from office in violation of the ECHR. The Court concluded that the…
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Court Orders Reinstatement of Ukrainan Supreme Court Judge
Yesterday, the Court issued its judgment in the case of Oleksandr Volkov v Ukraine, a politically very sensitive case about the dismissal of the applicant as Supreme Court judge. The facts of the case would not be out of place in a book…
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New Report on Structural Problems in ECHR State Parties
I wish all my readers a very good 2013! To start of this blogging year right away, I would like to draw your attention to a new report by rapporteur Serhii Kivalov, of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), entitled…
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Christmas Break
Dear readers, this blog and its author are taking a Christmas break. I wish all of you a very good holiday season. May 2013 be a year with lots of interesting new development in ECHR jurisprudence, but even more importantly with a better…