Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New Academic Articles on ECHR
The new year starts with information on two articles from well-known ECHR experts in two even more well-known journals. George Letsas published his article ‘Strasbourg’s Interpretive Ethic: Lessons for the International Lawyer’, in the European Journal of International Law (vol. 21, no.…
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Conference on Mainstreaming Diversity and the ECHR
The research group of professor Eva Brems of The Human Rights Centre of Ghent University is organising a conference at the at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, on 3 and 4 February 2011. It is entitled ‘Mainstreaming Diversity:…
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Last Post of 2010
On this shortest day of the the year, the Court has made one last big puff and delivered over 50 judgments, at the end of a year which was both turbulent, very busy for the Strasbourg institutions, and which also saw increasing…
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NGO Petition on Possible Fees at the Court
A large number of leading NGOs (Amnesty International, the AIRE Centre, EHRAC, the ICJ, Interights, Justice and Liberty) have launched a campaign related to one of the proposals which are being discussed in the wake of the Interlaken Reform Summit to ease…
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ECHR Case-Law Updates in Swedish
The Swedish judicial administration provides a handy, almost monthly (11 times a year) update service of ECHR case-law in the form of an electronic digest. A covenient way for all Swedish ECHR-interested and Scandinavians and others able to read Swedish. I have…
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Grand Chamber Abortion Judgment on Ireland
Yesterday, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rrights issued its judgment in the long-awaited case of A, B, and C v Ireland on abortion rights. Essentially, the Court held that Ireland must enable access to abortion in situations in…
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Lawyer’s Guide on ECHR Admissibility Criteria
Connected to yesterday’s post, the Court has launched another post-Interlaken initiative to try and stem the influx of new applications: a Partical Guide on ECHR admissibility criteria. The very elaborate document (over a 100 pages) is a clearly structured overview of the…
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Ten New Case-Law Fact Sheets
In order to stem the flood of applications and to make the Court’s jurisprudence better known, the Court has been posting so-called fact sheets on its website. These are thematic sheets with the main relevant cases in short summaries. Last week the…
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Farewell Seminar for Judge Christos Rozakis
The Athens Bar Association and the Greek Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights are organising a seminar at the occasion of the retirement of the Greek judge Christos Rozakis from the European Court of Human rights. The event will take place…
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Book on Extraterritorial Reach of ECHR Wins Award
Last Friday, on human rights day, Michal Gondek’s book ‘The Reach of Human Rights in a Globalizing World: Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties’, was awarded the Max van der Stoel PhD Thesis Award at Tilburg University. A large part of the…