Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Article on Inflation of Margin of Appreciation
The newest issue of our own SIM-based Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (vol. 29,No.3, 2001) features an article by Jan Kratochvíl, working at the registry of the European Court of Human Rights, entitled ‘The inflation of the margin of appreciation by the…
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Newest Issue RTDH
The newest issue of the Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme (July 2011, No. 87) is out now. Contents include various ECHR related articles (in French): * Antoine Garapon, ‘Les limites à l’interprétation évolutive de la Convention européenne’ Le présent article est…
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Network Neutrality and Article 8 ECHR
Bert-Jaap Koops (Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society) and Jasper P. Sluijs (Tilburg Law and Economics Center) have published a working paper on SSRN on what might to many perhaps be a surprising angle to approach the ECHR. It’s entitled ‘Network…
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Draft Agreement on EU Accession to ECHR
Over summer, a draft agreement on the accession of the EU to the ECHR – I reported on negotiations here – has been made public. This draft was negotiated between the Steering Committee for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CDDH)…
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Upcoming Liber Amicorum Judge Rozakis
Bruylant Publishers has announced that it will publish, in November, a liber amicorum dedicated to the retiring Greek judge Rozakis. The bilingual book has been edited by Dean Spielmann, Marialena Tsirli and Panayotis Voyatzis and is entitled ‘La Convention européenne des droits…
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Book on Hindrances to Individual Petition
Professor Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad of the University of Strasbourg has written ‘Preventing and sanctioning hindrances to the right of individual petition before the European Court of Human Rights’(Intersentia 2011). This is the abstract: Whereas it is common today to focus on the…
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Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda Case Note
The ever-productive Marko Milanovic of the University of Nottingham has posted a dual case note article on Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda on SSRN, entitled ‘Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda in Strasbourg’. It will not be published in print until 2012 in the European Journal of…
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ECHR as a Cosmopolitan Legal Order
Alex Stone Sweet (Yale University) has posted a working paper on ssrn entitled ‘A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Constitutional Pluralism and Rights Adjudication in Europe’. The paper deals with the ECHR as a cosmopolitan legal order. This is the abstract: The European Convention…
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ECHR Articles in Newest HRLR
The most recent issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2011) includes a number of articles relating to the European Convention on Human Rights: * Dominic McGoldrick, ‘Religion in the European Public Square and in European Public…
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My New Book on Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR
It is my great joy to announce that a book edited by my good friend Michael Hamilton (Central European University & Ulster University) and myself, entitled ‘Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR. Justice, Politics and Rights’ has just been published by Cambridge University…