Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Discrimination of HIV-Positive Persons Judgment
Today the Court concluded in a case against Russia that the refusal of a residence permit to an Uzbek national solely because he was HIV-positive was in violation of the European Convention of Human Rights. The case of Kiyutin v Russia related…
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ECHR Articles in Newest Issue of HRLR
The March issue (vol. 11, issue 1, 2011) of the Human Rights Law Review includes a number of articles on the ECHR. * Steven Greer, ‘Should Police Threats to Torture Suspects Always be Severely Punished? Reflections on the Gäfgen Case’ In Gäfgen…
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Article on EU Antitrust and ECHR
The connections between EU antitrust law and the ECHR receive increasing attention. Earlier, Felix Ronkes Agerbeek guest posted about it on this blog here. Now, Wouter Wils, connected to the European Commission and to King’s College London, has published an upcoming article…
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The Court’s Practice Directions for Litigants
A special page of the website of the European Court of Human Rights is dedicated to practice directions. These directions contain clear and succinct information on a number of aspects of the procedures before the European Court and are mainly directed at…
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New Book on NGOs and ECHR
Loveday Hodson of Leicester University has published the book ‘NGOs and the Struggle for Human Rights in Europe’ with Hart Publishing. It focuses on the extent and effects of NGO involvement in litigation at the European Court of Human Rights – a…
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ECHR, Counter-Terrorism and Refugees
Jens Vedsted-Hansen of Aarhus University School of Law has published an article entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights, Counter-Terrorism, and Refugee Protection’ in the Refugee Survey Quarterly (vol. 29, No. 4, pp.189-206). This the the abstract: The legal developments pertaining to…
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Article on ECHR and Domestic Violence
Lee Hasselbacher has published ‘State Obligations Regarding Domestic Violence: The European Court of Human Rights, Due Diligence, And International Legal Minimums of Protection’ in the Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights (Vol. 8, No. 2, 2010). The article places the Eurpean…
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TV Programme on the European Court
Following the controversy in the United Kingdom on the Court’s judgments on voting rights for prisoners, the BBC programme ‘The Record Europe’ has dedicated an episode to the European Court of Human Rights. It explains the controversy and the role and functioning…
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Article on Pilot Judgments in EHRLR
Stuart Wallace of the University of Nottingham has published an article on the pilot judgments at the European Court in the newest issues of the European Human Rights Law Review (No. 2011) pp. 71-81. It is entitled ‘Much ado about nothing? The…
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Dutch Short Videos on Key ECHR Rights
A collection of short videos explaining, through the real-life cases of Dutch people, the significance of a number of key ECHR rights is available online (including the right to liberty, the freedom of expression and the right to a fair trial). The…