Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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ECHR Articles in Newest Issue EuConst
The newest edition of the European Constitutional Law Review (vol. 8, issue 2, 2012) includes two ECHR-related articles. The first was written by my Dutch colleague and ECHR expert professor Janneke Gerards (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) and is entitled ‘The Prism of Fundamental Rights’…
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New Factsheets on Jurisprudence
Three new factsheets with overviews of key case-law concerning various issues which have featured in the Court’s docket have been put online recently. These are: The right to life Companies (with the slightly corny subtitle: companies – victims or culprits) Taxation
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Nada Grand Chamber Judgment
Earlier this month, the Grand Chamber of the Court issued delivered its judgment in the case of Nada v. Switzerland. A long-awaited judgment, since it deals with the implementation of a UN Security Council resolution by one the state parties to the…
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Speech of Bratza and Candidates for New Judges
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Moldova, and the Russian Federation have all submitted lists of three candidates (some of them new ones after earlier lists had been sent back or candidates withdrew) to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. One may…
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Drafting Groups on Court Reform – Draft Protocol 15
In the context of the ongoing reforms at the European Court of Human Rights and potential changes (in the form of additional protocols) to the European Convention on Human Rights, the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee on Human Rights (known under its…
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New Court Research Reports
Last year, the Court started to publish research reports online about particular themes in its case-law (see here for an earlier notification and overview). In the past months, three new research reports have been put online. The reports relate to the following…
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Miscellaneous
Today, a few short notifications a various kinds: Last week, the Court issued an admissibility decision which sheds some additional light on the Salduz jurispudence (on the right to have access to legal assistance for suspects when being interviewed by the police).…
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ELI Research Paper on Court’s Case-(Over)Load
The European Law Institute (ELI) in Vienna has published a research paper on the case overload of the European Court of Human Rights. The paper was written by the Court’s former registrar and future judge Paul Mahoney together with Luzius Wildhaber, Jean-Paul…
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Dean Spielmann New President of the European Court
The judge elected on behalf of Luxembourg, Dean Spielmann, has today been elected by his peers as the successor to the Court’s current President, Nicolas Bratza. The latter’s term of office as judge at the European Court of Human Rights is due…
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New ECHR Academic Articles
The newest ‘current contents’ selection of SIM’s documentation (August 2012) includes a number of articles on the Convention and the Court: * G. Martinico, ‘Is the European Convention going to be ‘supreme’? A comparative-constitutional overview of ECHR and EU law before national…