Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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60 Years ECHR Website
In a few weeks from now, on 4 November, it will be exactly 60 years ago that the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was signed in Rome (it entered into force three years later). To celebrate this, the Court…
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Non-Discrimination, the Military, and Parental Leave
Equal rights for fathers and mothers, should they exist even in the army? That was at issue in the recently decided case of Konstantin Markin v. Russia. It is a case on gender roles in childcare and on non-discrimination in issues of…
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An Expert Advisory Panel for Selection of Judges
Last Friday the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) welcomed the call of the Court’s president, Costa, to set up an expert panel which could advise state parties about the lists of three candidate judges which they plan to submit…
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Working Paper on EU Accession to ECHR
Tobias Lock of University College London has posted a working paper on SSRN on the upcoming accession of the European Union to the ECHRr. Currently, negotiations on this are ongoing. This is the abstract of the working paper, entitled ‘Accession of the…
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New Estonian and Greek Judges
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly elected two new judges to the Court, in respect of Estonia and of Greece. The new Estonian judge will be Ms Julia Laffranque, who won an absolute majority of 116 votes, more than her two opponents taken together.…
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PACE Rapporteur Calls for National Application of ECHR Case-Law
Speaking at a conference in the Macedonian capital Skopje last week, Christos Pourgourides, chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly stressed the need for parliaments and national judges to take more account of the jurisprudence…
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Case Law Made More Accessible
One of the ways to ease the case-load of the Court is to make the case-law more accessible and more known in the state parties to the European Convention. Thus, in a follow-up to the Interlaken conference earlier this year, the Court…
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The Conscience of Europe
As a spin-off of last year’s 50th anniversary of the Court a new book entitled grandly ‘The Conscience of Europe’ (‘La Conscience de l’Europe’ in the French version) will be published in January. A true insiders’ view on the Court’s history, with…
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Cartload of ECHR Articles
A whole cartload of journal articles, if one may say so irreverently, for all readers to enjoy this fall. It certainly reflects that the European Convention of Human Rights still enjoys a growing interest among researchers. In the International and Comparative Law…
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Pilot Flies Back to Moscow
Last week the European Court of Human Rights issued two decisions in cases concerning the non-enforcement of domestic court judgments (Nagovitsyn and Nalgiyev) and the excessive length of national court proceedings (Fakhretdinov and Others) in Russia. The human rights complaints of the…