Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Recording of Climate Cases Webinar
A recording of the webinar of 19 April 2024, ‘Climate Change in Strasbourg: the recent cases at the European Court of Human Rights’, co-organised by this ECHR Blog and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), is now available here for those who…
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ECHR Blog Special Webinar: Climate Change in Strasbourg
On Friday 19 April (15h00 to 16h30 CET), the ECHR Blog and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) are co-organising a special webinar entitled ‘Climate Change in Strasbourg: the recent cases at the European Court of Human Rights’. Last week, we already…
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Climate Cases Decided Today: Small Step or Huge Leap?
by Antoine Buyse and Kushtrim Istrefi This morning, the European Court of Human Rights issued its Grand Chamber decisions and judgment in three keenly awaited climate change cases. Two cases were declared inadmissible, but the Swiss grandmothers (Klimaseniorinnen) won their case in…
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New ECHR Articles in the HRLR
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2024) has been published, which includes a symposium. – partly comparable with a special issue – on the theme of ‘The European Court of Human Rights and the…
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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…