Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Azerbaijan and the ECHR
Article 19, the human rights NGO defending the freedom of expression across the globe, is ringing the alarm bells about the recent human rights situation in Azerbaijan, a member state of the Council of Europe and a party to the ECHR. Specifically,…
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New Norwegian and Swiss Judges
Yesterday, 12 april, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Ccouncil of Europe elected two new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. In respect of Norway, mr Erik Møse was elected and in respect of Switzerland Ms Helen Keller. Erik Møse is…
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Court’s Opinion for the Upcoming Izmir Conference
In the preparations for the upcoming Izmir high level conference in Turkey (under the Turkish chairmanship of the Council of Europe), the European Court of Human Rights has issued an ‘Opinion’ which reflect its input and views for that meeting. The Izmir…
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New Case Law Fact Sheets
As reported here in October last year, the Court is increasingly making it’s case-law accessible by putting thematic electronic factsheets online which summarise the jurisprudence on a particular topic. In 2011 almost twenty new factsheets have been added to the Court’s website:…
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Article on Strasbourg and Social Security
Emeritus professor Marc Bossuyt has written the article ‘L’extension de la compétence de la Cour de Strasbourg aux prestations sociales : sur l’interprétation de l’article 14 de la Convention combiné avec l’article 1er du Protocole n° 1 dans les affaires Gaygusuz, Koua…
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Article on Unlawful Detention of Unauthorised Aliens
Ian Bryan (Lancaster University) and Peter Langford (Edge Hill University) have uploaded the abstract of the following article on SSRN: ‘The Unlawful Detention of Unauthorised Aliens Under the European System for the Protection of Human Rights’. It will be published in the…
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Court Closes Pilot Procedure on Polish Rent Control Cases
The Court announced today on its website that it has closed one of its earliest pilot judgment procedures, the so-called Polish rent-control cases. This is the press release: A systemic problem with Poland’s housing legislation has been resolved to the satisfaction of…
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London Conference on EU Accession to ECHR
The European Institute of University College London is organising a conference on 20 May 2011 entitled “Who will be the ultimate guardian of human rights in Europe? Implications of the European Union’s Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights”. This is…
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Article on ECHR Abuse Clause and Freedom of Expression
The newest issue of our Utrecht/SIM publication, the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (vol. 29, no. 1) includes an article by Hannes Cannie and Dirk Voorhoof, both of Ghent University, entitled ‘The Abuse Clause and Freedom of Expression in the European Human…
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Italian Book on Role of the Judge and ECHR
Roberto Conti has just written a new Italian-language book on the European Convention on Human Rights and the role of the judge (La Convenzione europea dei diritti dell’uomo. Il ruolo del giudice), published with Aracne Editrice. This is the abstract in Italian:…