Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below our selection of recent publications, both articles and book chapters, related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Ivana Jelić, ‘Feminist Justice and the European Court of Human Rights’ in Ivana Krstić, Marco Evola, Maria Isabel Ribes Moreno…
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New Book on Fairness in Criminal Appeal and the ECHR
Helena Morão and Ricardo Tavares da Silva, both of the University of Lisbon School of Law, have co-edited a book recently published by Springer, entitled Fairness in Criminal Appeal. A Critical and Interdisciplinary Analysis of the ECtHR Case-Law. This is the abstract: ‘This book addresses…
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The Court’s Own Reykjavik Memorandum
Whether coincidental or not, but after last week Lize Glas reported on this blog that the Court’s own memorandum for the Fourth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe was not yet public, just yesterday it has…
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Wishes for Reykjavik
What Can the Fourth Council of Europe Summit Have in Store for the Court? by Lize R. Glas, Radboud University On 16 and 17 May 2023, a summit of heads of state and government of the Council of Europe (CoE) will take place in Reykjavik,…
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The Hague Civil Society Declaration on Council of Europe Reform
Earlier this month, on 28 February and 1 March, the first ever Council of Europe Civil Society Summit took place in The Hague, the very city in which 75 years earlier one of the foundational moments of the European movement happened, eventually leading to the creation…
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Summer School on Council of Europe
The School of Law and Social Justice of the University of Liverpool will be organising a dedicated summer school on the Law of the Council of Europe. It will take place between 2 and 14 July and is geared towards the postgraduate…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below the newest selection of academic publications related to the European Convention on Human Rights, its Court and case-law: * Alessio Sardo, ‘Hate Speech: A Pragmatic Assessment of the European Court of Human Rights’ Jurisprudence’, European Convention on Human Rights…
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New Icelandic and Danish Judges Elected
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected two new judges to the European Court of Human Rights, in respect of Denmark and Iceland. The new Danish judge will be Anne Louise Haahr Bormann. she has professional…
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New Handbook on the ECHR
Mark Villiger, former judge at the European Court of Human Rights and professor emeritus at the University of Zürich, has just published a new Handbook on the European Convention on Human Rights with Brill. It is oriented towards practice and covers both the organisation of the Court itself,…
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Happy New Year from the ECHR Blog
Dear readers of the ECHR Blog, let us start off by wishing all of you a happy and good new year! After a more than tumultuous year in which the Council of Europe lost its largest member state when it invaded another one, causing enormous…