Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Two High Profile Russian Cases Coming to Strasbourg
This week, it was announced that two high-profile Russian cases have been lodged in Strasbourg, both in reaction to policies and actions by the government of Putin. The first, as several major news outlets report, is that the three members of the…
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ECHR and EU after Lisbon
One of my colleagues here at Utrecht, Sybe de Vries (Jean Monnet Chair in EU Single Market Law and Fundamental Rights) has, together with Ulf Bernitz and Stephen Weatherill, edited a book entitled ‘The Protection of Fundamental Rights in the EU After…
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New Issue of the Human Rights Law Review
The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 12, Issue 4, December 2012) is filled with articles about the ECHR and the European Court on Human Rights: * Steven Greer and Luzius Wildhaber, ‘Revisiting the Debate about ‘constitutionalising’ the European…
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New ECHR Readings
This week brings another batch of academic writings on the European Convention. First off, the Utrecht Law Review‘s most recent issue (Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2013) includes a special thematic section on ‘EU and ECHR: Conflict or Harmony?’. Articles include (amongst…
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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…