Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Lord Irvine’s Take on the ECHR
Last Wednesday, Lord Irvine of Lairg, the ‘architect’ of the Human Rights Act, delivered a lecture at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law adding to the discussion on the ECHR in the United Kingdom. The lecture is entitled ‘A British…
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ECHR Implementation in Central and Eastern Europe
Frank Emmert, of the School of Law of Indiana University, has posted the findings of an upcoming book (‘The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Central and Eastern Europe’, Eleven International Publishing, 2012) on SSRN in a paper entitled…
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Op-Ed on European Court
Emma Bonino (member of the Italian Senate and former European commissioner) and James Goldston (executive director of Open Society Justice Initiative) have added their voices to the debate about the European Court of Human Rights. In an Op-Ed published in the online…
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Paper on National Judicial Treatment of the ECHR
Giuseppe Martinico, of the Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales in Madrid and the European University Institute in Florence, has posted a paper on the differences and similarities between EU and ECHR law in national legal orders. It is entitled ‘The National…
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Important Housing Rights Judgment
What to do when one buys a house or an apartment in good faith, but it later on expires that the original owner had acquired it by fraud? To what extent should the interests of the new bona fide owner then be…
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Immunity of Judges in Practice
The question of the immunity of judges arose in Strasbourg in the past two months in the context of a search of the Romanian house of judge Corneliu Bîrsan, one of the Court’s longest-serving judges (since 1998). The direct reason was that…
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Admissibility Checklist
Today, the Court launched yet another tool to make sure no clearly inadmissible applications are lodged in Strasbourg: an admissibility checklist. Whereas previous efforts were focused to a large extent on lawyers, this new initiative is aimed at the applicants themselves. In…
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More New ECHR Academic Publications
And yet another batch of academic works about the European Convention on Human Rights – it would take many metres of bookshelves a year to stack them all!. Thankfully, an increasing part of it is available online: * Alexandra Timmer, ‘Toward an…
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New Version of CoE Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals Website
Yesterday, a revamped and improved version of the Council of Europe’s HELP site, short for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals, was put online. The HELP programme is an often overlooked but essential nexus between the Strasbourg system and national legal practitioners.…
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New Publications on ECHR and Good News
The end of this month brings a broad range of new ECHR-related publications, both books and articles. Please find an overview here: * Nicolas Bratza (current president of the Court) has published an article entitled ‘The relationship between the UK Courts and…