Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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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…
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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…