Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New ECHR Publications
As a kick-off of the new academic year, the newest online contents overview of the documentation centre of SIM is online now. These are its main ECHR-related references: * A. Hanke, ‘Custody and visitation rights in Germany after the decisions of the European Court…
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Summer Break and Court Documentary
The programme Itineris on TV5 Monde has made a documentary about the European Court of Human Rights. The short film goes into both how the Court works as well as into the building of the Court, designed by Richard Rogers. An accessible…
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Article on Restorative Justice and the ECHR
Friend and colleague James Sweeney of Durham University has written just published the article ‘Restorative Justice and Transitional Justice at the ECHR’ in the newest issue of the International Criminal Law Review (vol. 12. No. 3, 2012). This is the abstract: The entire jurisprudence of the…
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My Book Chapter on National Human Rights Institutions and the ECtHR
I have posted a new piece I wrote on national human rights institutions and the European Court of Human Rights on SSRN. It is entitled ‘The Court’s Ears and Arms: National Human Rights Institutions and the European Court of Human Rights’ and…
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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.…