Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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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…
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Book and Launch on ECHR and Homosexuality
Paul Johnson of the University of York has written a book entitled ‘Homosexuality and the European Court on Human Rights’ to be published in October by Routledge. This is the abstract: This is the first book-length study of the Court’s jurisprudence in…
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Progress in EU-ECHR Negotiations?
As MultiRights Blog reports, the negotiations on the European Union’s accession to the ECHR seem to have reached a new phase. Last week, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Minister instructed the Steering Committee for Human Rights to pursue negotations with the…
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New Policy on Reports of Judgments and Decisions
Even though most people will use the HUDOC database these days to find cases, the sheer amount of output of the Strasbourg Court means that authoritative selections of case-law remain very valuable. The Court’s own Reports of Judgments and Decisions are the…
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The European Court and International Law
Julian Arato of New York University has published an article on the recourse to international law by the European Court of Human Rights.The article is entitled ‘Constitutional Transformation in the ECtHR: Strasbourg’s Expansive Recourse to External Rules of International Law’ and has…
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New Issue NQHR
The newest issue (vol. 30. no. 2, June 2012) of the SIM-based Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights includes two articles relating to the European Convention on Human Rights. In addition, it also features an overview of new ECHR developments under ‘Human Rights News’.…
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New Articles on ECHR
A number of new academic articles on the European Convention have been published in the last few months. First, the International Journal on Minority and Group Rights includes the article ‘The Strasbourg Court and minority groups: shooting in the dark or a…