Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Summer School on Council of Europe
The School of Law and Social Justice of the University of Liverpool will be organising a dedicated summer school on the Law of the Council of Europe. It will take place between 2 and 14 July and is geared towards the postgraduate…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below the newest selection of academic publications related to the European Convention on Human Rights, its Court and case-law: * Alessio Sardo, ‘Hate Speech: A Pragmatic Assessment of the European Court of Human Rights’ Jurisprudence’, European Convention on Human Rights…
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New Icelandic and Danish Judges Elected
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected two new judges to the European Court of Human Rights, in respect of Denmark and Iceland. The new Danish judge will be Anne Louise Haahr Bormann. she has professional…
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New Handbook on the ECHR
Mark Villiger, former judge at the European Court of Human Rights and professor emeritus at the University of Zürich, has just published a new Handbook on the European Convention on Human Rights with Brill. It is oriented towards practice and covers both the organisation of the Court itself,…
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Happy New Year from the ECHR Blog
Dear readers of the ECHR Blog, let us start off by wishing all of you a happy and good new year! After a more than tumultuous year in which the Council of Europe lost its largest member state when it invaded another one, causing enormous…
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Call for Abstracts ‘Heads and Tails’: ECHR Admissibility and Remedies
On 15-16 June 2023, we are organising the international academic workshop ‘Heads and Tails’: Admissibility and Remedies at the European Court of Human Rights’ at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. It is part of a collaboration between the Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law and…
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New Book on Litigation about Religion and the ECHR
Lisa Harms of the University of Münster has published the monograph Faith in Courts. Human Rights Advocacy and the Transnational Regulation of Religion with Hart Publishing. It is available as an ebook. This is the abstract: ‘The judicialisation of religious freedom conflicts is long recognised. But…
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Secretary General’s Article 52 ECHR Report on Poland
Earlier this week, the Council of Europe’s Secretary, Marija Pejčinović Burić, published her report on Poland’s (non-)implementation of a number of key judgments of the Court on the right to a fair trial in Poland, part of the wider debates about the rule…
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Call for Abstracts on Populism, Authoritarianism and the ECtHR
The PluriCourts Centre at the University of Oslo has issued a call for abstracts. It relates to an upcoming workshop with the title ‘The European Court of Human Rights Facing Populism and Authoritarianism: Time for System Change?’ which will take place on…
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New Book on Fair Trial Rules of Evidence in ECtHR Case-Law
Jurkka Jämsä (Vaasa Court of Appeal, Finland) has published the monograph Fair Trial Rules of Evidence. The Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights with Routledge. It is a very structured practice-oriented guide on the law of evidence and the…