Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Transitional Jurisprudence and ECHR Book
How does the European Court of Human Rights deal with issues of transitional justice? What effect do transitions in European states have on Strasbourg case-law and how does Strasbourg jurisprudence affect transitions from authoritarian rule and protracted conflict to democracy and peace?…
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Two New Papers on ECHR on SSRN
In the last few weeks two new papers relating to the European Convention on Human Rights have been posted on the Social Science research Network (SSRN). Wouter P. J. Wils, connected both to the European Commission and to King’s College London, has…
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Alarming Rise in Requests for Interim Measures
The number of applications might be on the rise in Strasbourg, but the number of requests for interim measures has seen an even sharper increase: a rise of 4000 % in the last four years. If this were a company, the shareholders…
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Controversy over Prisoners’ Right to Vote in UK: Guest Blog
Dear readers, it is my pleasure to announce a guest blog by Ed Bates, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Southampton. He recently published an extensive history of the European Court of Human Rights, on which I reported here. His…
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Election of ECtHR Judges Information Sheet
The Secretariat of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly has prepared an information document entitled ‘Procedure for electing judges to the European Court of Human Rights’. Apart from providing a succinct overview of…
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Overview of ECHR Articles in Journals
The monthly overview of human rights journal articles, compiled by the documentalists of my home base, the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) again contains a range of ECHR-related articles: First, in several issues of the Goettingen Journal of International Law. Recently:…
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Book on ECHR and Marginalised Groups
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers has published the book ‘The European Court of Human Rights and the rights of marginalised individuals and minorities in national context’, edited by Dia Anagnostou and Evangelia Psychogiopoulou. They are both research fellows at the Hellenic Foundation for European…
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Article on Court After Interlaken
The newest issue of the European Journal of International Law (vol. 21, no. 4) includes an article by Helen Keller, Andreas Fischer and Daniela Kühne entitled ‘Debating the Future of the European Court of Human Rights after the Interlaken Conference: Two Innovative…
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Annual Report of Court and Opening of Judicial Year
Last week, the Court issued its Annual Report over 2010. It shows a continuing of the worrying trend of increasses: 140,000 pending cases at the end of 2010, a rise of 7% in allocated applications and a rise of 65% (!) in…
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Common Statement CJEU and ECtHR
Last week, the two main regional European Courts, the Court of Justice of the European Union, in Luxembourg, and the European Court of Human Rights, in Strasbourg, issued a joint communication which gives in insight in the contours of some of the…