Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Article on Court After Interlaken
In the wake of last year’s Interlaken reform summit, discussions have started again about the core functions of the European Court of Human Rights. A recent working paper by Fiona de Londras of University College Dublin, later to be published in the…
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New Book on History of European Court of Human Rights
Before I specialised in human rights law, I studied history. I was therefore especially happy to see the recent publication of the book ‘The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights. From Its Inception to the Creation of a Permanent Court…
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Two New Electronic Articles on the ECHR
Recently, two ECHR-related articles have been published on SSRN. First, this is ‘Nordic Constitutionalism and European Human Rights – Mixing Oil and Water?’, authored by Jaakko Husa of the Law Faculty of the University of Lapland. This is the abstract: This article…
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Fribourg Conference on ECHR after Protocol 14
The University of Fribourg in Switzerland is organising a conference on May 4 of this year entitled “The European Court of Human Rights after Protocol 14 – Preliminary Assessment and Perspectives”. Speakers include former European Court judges Lucius Caflisch and Luzius Wildhaber…
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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…