Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Kant and the Convention
Although Immanuel Kant’s home town of Kaliningrad, formerly Königsberg, falls within the territorial ambit of the European Convention, who would have thought that the famous philosopher’s ideas could be relevant in assessing the national implementation of the ECHR? Mads Andenas of the…
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Documents on EU Accession to the ECHR
With the negotiations between the European Union and the state parties to the ECHR in full swing about the accession of the EU to the European Convention, the “Informal Group on Accession of the European Union to the Convention” has a specific…
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Case Note on Humanitarian Law and ECHR
It might be an unexpected place to look for it, but the newest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (vol. 10(1), 2011, 129-140) includes a case note by Eriko Tamura of Kansai University in Japan entitled ‘The Isayeva Cases of…
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More Documents and Info on Izmir
For all information on the Izmir high level conference (of two weeks ago) on the European Court of Human Rights, a special website can be consulted here. It includes speeches of the key speakers as well as the final declaration which includes…
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Article on ECHR and Right to Reputation
Stijn Smet, PhD researcher at the University of Ghent, published an article on ECtHR defamation jurisprudence entitled ‘Freedom of Expression and the Right to Reputation: Human Rights in Conflict’ in the American University International Law Review (Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 183-236).…
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Report on Legitimacy of the ECtHR
Yesterday, the report ‘The Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Right’s: The View from the Ground’ was presented in Strasbourg’. The research for the report was undertaken by Basak Çali, Anne Koch and Nicola Bruch, political scientists of University College London.…
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Joint NGO Statement for Izmir Conference
Today, the High Level Conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights started in the Turkish city of Izmir. This two-day conference is a meeting of state representatives of all the parties to the European Convention and follows up…
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New Blog on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
As an exception to the principle that I only post about ECHR related measures, it is my pleasure to announce the birth of a new blog on one of the regional peers of the European Court: the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.…
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Annual Report Committee of Ministers on Execution of ECtHR Judgments
This week, the latest Annual Report ‘Supervision of the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights’ (covering the year 2010) of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers was published. According to the Committee’s own press release: The year…
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Statistics on States with Systemic or Structural Problems
The secretariat of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has just issued an information document entitled ‘States with major structural/systemic problems before theEuropean Court of Human Rights: statistics’. It contains a…