Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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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…
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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…