Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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More Administrative Autonomy for the Court
Earlier this week, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted resolution CM/Res(2011)9, which amends the Staff Regulations with regard to delegation of staff management powers to the Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights. The resolution enables the…
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New Book on Positive Obligations and the ECHR
A new book has been published with Routledge by Dimitris Xenos (of the European Public Law Organisation in Athens)entitled ‘The Positive Obligations of the State under the European Convention of Human Rights’. This is the abstract: The system of the European Convention…
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Trying it Twice
Rare are the cases in which applicants win their case in Strasbourg and then return to Strasbourg and again win a case when they are not satisfied with the way the state handles the outcome. This happened in this week’s judgment in…
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New Book on Non-ECHR Monitoring in Council of Europe
Gauthier de Beco, of the Centre for Philosophy of Law at the University of Louvain, has written ‘Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms of the Council of Europe’ published with Routlegde. Finally a book that introduces and systematically compares, in short introductions in one…
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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…