Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Brighton Outcomes
The Brighton Declaration is finally there. It was adopted last Friday in the English seaside resort where ministers of the 47 state parties to the European Convention on Human Rights came together to discuss reforming the Court. As I predicted last week,…
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Brighton Has Started
Today, the formal part of the Brighton conference has started. The final declaration is due to be adopted tomorrow. After all the months of preparations, the at times scathing attacks on the Court and the not always very nuanced discussions, it now…
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René Cassin ECHR Moot Court
As has now become a good tradition, the René Cassin competition will take place again this year in Strasbourg. The competition is a french-language European Convention on Human Rights moot court for university students, named after the second president of the European…
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Brighton
As negotiations and preparations are ongoing for the meeting of Ministers later this week on ECHR reform in Brighton, here are a few updates: * A new joint NGO Statement on Brighton * An academic initiative of the University of Sussex calling…
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Brighton Conference Programme Online
The programme for next week’s Brighton conference on the European Court of Human Rights has been put online by the British chairmanship of the Council of Europe. It can be found here. Unfortunately, it says nothing much, certainly not about what precise…
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Inter-State Case Georgia v Russia goes to Grand Chamber
Last week, the Chamber which had been assigned to adjudicate on the Georgia v Russia (No. 2) inter-state complaint – about the war of 2008 – relinquished jurisdiction in favour of the Grand Chamber of the European Court. Earlier, in December 2011…
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Brighton Update – New Version of the Draft Declaration
A lot has been written on the preparations for the Brighton conference on the ECHR. The newest version of the Draft Brighton Declaration was discussed yesterday in Strasbourg. I have not been able to track an online version of this newest draft,…
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ECHR Articles
Thanks to our documentalists here at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) I found a range of ECHR articles which I think I had not mentioned earlier. One is a special issue of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (2010, vol. 61,…
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Committee of Ministers Adopts Guidelines on Selecting European Court Judges
Yesterday, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted Guidelines on the selection of candidates for the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights. The guidelines address the first step in electing judges: the national selection procedures.…
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Paper on Reparations in Torture Cases in Strasbourg
Professor Bill Bowring of Birbeck College of the University of London has posted a working paper on SSRN on Strasbourg’s practice of reparations in torture cases. It is entitled ‘What Reparation Does a Torture Survivor Obtain from International Litigation? Critical Reflections on…