Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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More Translations of European Court’s Case-Law
“Bringing Convention standards closer to home” – it could be the slogan of a political campaign, but it is the title of a project of the European Court of Human Rights. Supported by the Human Rights Trust Fund, it aims to translate more…
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Article on Implementation of ECHR
Courtney Hillebrecht of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has published an article on the domestic implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments in the Human Rights Review. Part of her research was done here at Utrecht University. The article is entitled ‘Implementing International…
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New Articles on ECHR
A wide range of new publications on the European Convention and Court have come out in the past few months. Thanks again to the documentalists of SIM, here are the relevant ECHR-related articles from this month’s compilation of ‘Online Contents’: * J.…
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ESIL Reflection on Brighton
Laurence Helfer of Duke University has posted a very interesting ‘reflection’ on the website of the European Society of International Law on the outcomes of the Brighton Summit on the European Court. It is entitled ‘The Burdens and Benefits of Brighton’. this…
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Important Judgment on Statelessness
Earlier this week, the Grand Chamber of the Court delivered its judgment in the case of Kuric v. Slovenia and found violations of Articles 8, 13 and 14 ECHR. The Court found that Slovenia had violated the rights of a group of…
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New Judges Elected in Respect of Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Poland
Yesterday and today, the Parliamentary Assembly elected five new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. Yesterday, the new Swedish judge was elected: Helena Jäderblom. She is currently a Justice at the Supreme Administrative Court. Today, the four others were elected.…
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New Version of HUDOC Search Engine Launched
This week the Court launched a new version of the what is probably its key online resource: the HUDOC case-law database, which includes judgments and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, decisions and reports of the former European Commission of…
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Special Account for the European Court of Human Rights
To be able to do more work, the Court is constantly trying to increase its efficiency, but in addition it still needs additional capacity in terms of personnel. In order to enable that, a new special account for the Ccourt has been…
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Manual on ECHR and the Environment
The Council of Europe has just published the second edition of its ”Manual on Human Rights and the Environment”, both in English and French. The book covers how both the European Court (the largest part of the publication) and the European Committee…
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European Parliamentarians Welcome Resuming of EU – Council of Europe Talks
The joint informal body of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament (of the EU) hase welcomed the Committee of Ministers’ decision to resume talk on EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. In a…