Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Hearing on the Katyń Massacre Case
Today history is featuring in the European Court of Human Rights. A hearing is currently being held on the aftermath of the Katyń massacre, a notorious episode of the Second World War. In 1940 the secret police of the Soviet Union murdered…
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Article on Supreme Courts and Evolutive Interpretation of the ECHR
Eirik Bjorge of the universities of Oxford and Oslo has published an article in the International Journal of Constitutional Law (Vol. 9, issue 1, 2011), entitled ‘National Supreme Courts and the Development of ECHR Rights’ in which he looked at the cases…
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A History of Violations in Statistics per State
The European Court of Human Rights has published an online statistical overview of its entire history of judgments grouped per state in pie charts ‘Statistics on Judgments per State’. It covers the whole period of 1959 to 2010. For each country it…
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European Yearbook on Human Rights 2011 Published
The newest edition of the European Yearbook on Human Rights (2011) has been published. The yearbook includes a very wide range of articles on human rights, including a number on the ECHR. This is the abstract: In the human rights field, 2010…
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Article on ECHR Application to Northern Cyprus
The newest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 15, Issue 6, 2011) includes an article on Northern Cyprus and the ECHR. It was written by Leonard Hammer (affiliation not provided) and is entitled “Re-examining the extraterritorial application of the…
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M.S.S. Judgment Echoes in Luxemburg
At the beginning of this year, the European Court of Human Rights issued its important M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece judgment, on the asylum seekers transfer system within the European Union (see my earlier report here). In summary, the Court held that…
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New ECHR Articles
A few new academic articles and papers concerning the ECHR have become available online. The first is an article on human trafficking entitled ‘Complementary Protection for Victims of Human Trafficking under the European Convention on Human Rights’ published by Vladislava Stoyanova in…
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Article on Pilot Judgments most downloaded on SSRN
Usually it’s difficult to assess how many people read one’s academic work. But the online open access database SSRN offers the possibility to see at least how many people download articles and thus show initial curiosity in a certain article. I am…
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New Book in French on Interim Measures
A group of lawyers from the ‘Young Brussels Bar’ has published an edited collection of essays on interim measures at the European Court of Human Rights. The book is entitled ‘Les mesures provisoires devant la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme. Un…
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New Vice-President and Section President
The judges of the European Court have elected a new vice-president, Josep Casadevall, the judge in respect of small Andorra. In addition, a new Section President was elected: Lech Garlicki, the judge in respect of Poland. Casadevall will serve until 31 October…