Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Conference on ECtHR and ECJ
Oxford Brookes University is organising a conference on Europe’s two main Courts: the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. The conference will be held on 18 January and is entitled ‘Fundamental Rights In Europe: A Matter For…
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New Book on Diversity and the ECHR
Professor Eva Brems of Ghent University, who leads one of the largest current ECHR-research projects in Europe with a very talented ‘crew’ of researchers, has compiled a book on diversity issues within the jurisprudence of the European Court. The approach of the book…
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Musings of a Former Judge
With yesterday’s post about translations into many languages in mind, I dare to post for once a publication in one of Europe’s smaller languages, Dutch (also my own incidentally). At the occasion of his retirement from the European Court of Human Rights,…
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Court Information in Many More Languages
The Court is continuing to expand its translations of key publications for potential applicants and the general public. Currently, the “Questions & Answers”, “The ECHR in 50 Questions”, and the leaflet “The Court in brief”, have been translated into the official languages of…
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Book on European Court in the Post-Cold War Era
Dr James Sweeney of the University of Durham has written a very interesting monograph on the intersection of the universality of human rights and the specifics of transitional justice, with the European Court as its case study. The book, entitled ‘The European…
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Deportation of Children Judgment
It is my pleasure to have a guest blog today by dr Maarten den Heijer, former colleague and a specialist in European migration law. He has been so kind to comment on the judgment of Butt v Norway, delivered by the Court…
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New Academic Articles on the Convention
The newest ‘Current Contents Selection’ of my home base SIM has been put online. It includes the following ECHR-related articles (I am only mentioning the ones I did not refer to before on this blog). First off, the Cambridge Law Journal (vol.…
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Court’s Guide to Case-Law per Article
This week, the European Court of Human Rights started to publish a new series of studies on its jurisprudence relating to specific Articles of the ECHR, the so-called Guide to Case-law. Another addition to its range of informative tools about the Convention – next to the information…
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Joint NGO Statement on Draft Protocols 15 and 16
A group of European human rights NGOs has published a Joint Comment on the drafting of Protocols 15 and 16 to the European Convention, about which I reported previously here. The NGOs are critical about some proposed aspects (such as the singling out…
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Telegraaf Judgment on Protection of Journalists’ Sources
Yesterday, the European Court issued its judgment in yet another case about the protection of journalistic sources in the Netherlands, and again found the country in violation of the ECHR: Telegraaf and others v. The Netherlands. I am very happy to welcome…