Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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My New Book on Margins of Conflict and the ECHR
Dear readers, allow me to highlight a book edited by myself, which has just been published with Intersentia Publishers in their Transitional Justice Series: “Margins of Conflict. The ECHR and Transitions to and from Armed Conflict”. The book is the result of…
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Working Paper on ‘Nullum Crimen, Nulla Poena Sine Lege’
For those readers who read French: Hélène Tigroudja of Artois University has posted a working paper on SSRN on the principle of ‘Nullum Crimen, Nulla Poena Sine Lege’ in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights: International Crimes and the…
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Protection Against Domestic Violence Extended
This week, the European Court of Human Rights re-emphasized state obligations to protect victims of domestic violence in the case of Hajduová v. Slovakia. The case concerned a mother who had been verbally and physcially attacked by her husband – attacks which…
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PhD Workshop on Legacy and Future of ECHR
The School of Law of University College Dublin is organising a workshop entitled ‘The Legacy and Future of the ECHR: Evaluating Sixty Years of the European Human Rights Project’ on 1-2 April 2011. Although it is primarily intended for PhD researchers, other…
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New issues IAEHR Journal and HRLR
Two human rights journals have just released their newest issues. Please find an overview here of the articles that relate to the ECHR. The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 10 , no. 4 , 2010) includes: * Thérèse…
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Interpretative Authority of ECtHR Judgments
A strong plea for the interpretative authority of Europea Court judgments. That is what PACE rapporteur Christos Pourgourides delivered last month at a conference in Skopje. He convincingly argued that one of the key ways to prevent repetitive applications to the Court…
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Report on Implementing Regional Human Rights Decisions
The NGO Open Society Justice Initiative has just published a new report online, entitled ‘From Judgment to Justice. Implementing International and Regional Human Rights Decisions’. It focuses on challenges of implementation in respect of four human rights systems: the Strasbourg system, the…
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Voting Rights for Detainees: Reform Ordered
A blanket ban on voting rights for detainees in the United Kingdom, in place since 1870, might change into a more nuanced system of assessing which prisoners get the right to vote. Yesterday, in the pilot judgment of Greens and M.T. v.…
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Russian Constitutional Court President Very Critical of Strasbourg Court
The president of Russia’s Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, uttered very critical remarks at a forum in Saint Petersburg last Saturday. According to various press agencies (Itar Tass and Reuters) and newspapers (Kommersant) he indicated that Russia could withdraw from the jurisdiction of…
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PACE Report Points Out Biggest ECHR Implementation Culprits
Yesterday, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted its newest (7th) report on the implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, drafted by Mr Christos Pourgourides. The report fits in…