Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New Book on the European Court and its Two Regional Siblings
Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen of the Sorbonne University in France has published an English-language version of her earlier comparative work in French on the three regional human rights courts. The book, entitled The 3 Regional Human Rights Courts in Context – Justice That Cannot…
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Up in the Trees – Interim Measures and Environmental Protesters
A rather unusual request to Strasbourg: earlier this week, the European Court of Human Rights rejected a request for interim measures by a group of environmental protesters in France. The protesting people, known as écureuils (squirrels), have been up, at a height…
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Call for Abstracts Workshop 75 Years Council of Europe
The University of Grenoble-Alpes is organising the workshop ‘The Council of Europe: How to move forward after 75 years? The past, present and future of an international organisation in its seventies’ in December 2024, with Anca Ailinca as convener. It has issued a call…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below our newest selection of academic publications covering the ECHR and the European Court of Human Rights. Enjoy reading! * Ryan Goss, ‘The Disappearing ‘Minimum Rights’ of Article 6 ECHR: the Unfortunate Legacy of Ibrahim and Beuze’, Human Rights Law…
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Three New Judges and Commissioner Elected
Last week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) had a busy week in many respects, including in terms of elections. No less than three new judges were elected to the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, a new Commissioner…
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Updated Rules of Court on Recusal of Judges
Yesterday, 22 January, the newest version of the Rules of Court entered into force. Decided by the Plenary of the Court in December, they are part of a series of internal procedural reforms, also related to the Rules of Court, as we reported earlier here. The…
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New ECHR Readings
In the last batch of readings of 2023 related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court, please find our selection below. We wish all our readers a good holiday season! * Helen Keller and Viktoriya Gurash, ‘Expanding NGOs’ standing:…
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Changes to the Rules of Court, Including on Interim Measures
In the past few months, the Court has been initiating some changes to its Rules of Court. Several of the changes relate to both degrees of transparency: on the public character of documents (Rule 33 § 1 on this has been amended) and…
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Intersectional Rewrites Project
An interesting project has been launched online this year, entitled Intersectional Rewrites: European Court of Human Rights Judgments Reimagined. Leading eventually both to a book as well as to a blog series (see the call for blog contributions below), this is the summary of…
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New Book on the ECHR and the Court in French
Frédéric Krenc, the judge at the European Court of Human Rights elected in respect of Belgium, has published a new book entitled ‘Une Convention et une Cour pour les droits fondamentaux, la démocratie et l’État de droit‘ [A Convention and a Court…