Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Boat Migrants Grand Chamber Judgment
Yesterday, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered judgment in an important case about one of the most topical migration issues: irregular migrants intercepted in the Mediterranean by ECHR state parties. In the case of Hirsi Jamaa and…
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Call for Papers EU – ECHR
The Surrey School of Law and the Surrey European Law Unit (SELU) have issued a call for papers for an interdisciplinary workshop entitled ‘A Europe of Rights: the EU and ECHR’. It will be held on 8 and 9 June. This is…
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Newest Issue of HRLR
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 12, issue 1, March 2012) is out now and includes a number of ECHR-related articles. First, the article ‘Argentoratum Locutum: Is Strasbourg or the Supreme Court Supreme?’ by Baroness Brenda Hale, justice…
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Anti-Gay Speech Judgment
In the recent case of Vejdeland and others v Sweden the Court for the first time issued a ruling on offensive speech in relation to sexual orientation. The case centered on the conviction of four men who had entered a secondary school…
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New Documents on Selection of Judges and Reform Measures Requiring ECHR Amendments
Two important documents of the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee on Human Rights (CDDH), where much of the preparations for reforms happen, have been put online. The first are ‘Draft Committee of Ministers’ Guidelines on the selection of candidates for the post…
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Paper on Compliance with ECtHR Judgments
Andreas Von Staden of the Department of Political Science of the University of St. Gallen has posted a paper on SSRN on conmpliance with the European Court’s rulings, entitled ‘Rational Choice within Normative Constraints: Compliance by Liberal Democracies with the Judgments of…
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Seminar in London on the European Court
Next week, on Wednesday 22 February a seminar on the European Court of Human Rights will be organised at Europe House, Smith Square, Westminster in London. The seminar is entitled ‘Some issues around Reform of the European Court of Human Rights’. This…
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US Supreme Court and ECtHR Judges will meet in Washington DC
The US Department of State and George Washington University Law School are jointly organising a high-level conference in which several US Supreme Court justices will speak and discuss with several European Court of Human Rights Judges. The conference is entitled ‘Judicial Process…
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Speeches of Bratza and Hammarberg
I did not link to them yet, but at the opening of the judicial year in Strasbourg both the Court’s President, Sir Nicolas Bratza, and the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Thomas Hammarberg, both delivered speeches. Bratza for…
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New Publications on the ECHR
Again, a number of new academic publications relating to the European Convention on Human Rights and the Court in Strasbourg. For a fuller overview of recent articles on human rights, from which this is just an ECHR-related excerpt, please consult the very…