Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Article on ‘European Consensus’ at the Court
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, a PhD researcher at University College Dublin, has just posted a working paper on one of the more opaque aspects of Strasbourg case-law: the notion of a European consensus : ‘Consensus from within the Palace Walls’. The innovative aspect is…
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Introduction to the ECHR by the Council of Europe itself
Council of Europe Publishing has just published a book which functions as a basic and very short (87 pages) introduction to the ECHR: ‘The Council of Europe and human rights – An introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights’, authored by…
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Grand Chamber Judgment on Protection of Journalists’ Sources
This week the Grand Chamber of the European Court reversed an earlier Chamber judgment in the case of Sanoma Uitgevers B.V. v. the Netherlands. The Grand Chamber found, unanimously, a violation of article 10 ECHR. The judgment can be seen as a…
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Positive Obligations in a Democracy
Rory O’Connell of Queen’s University Belfast has written an article for the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (Vol. 61-3, 2010, pp. 263-279) on positive obligations under the right to free elections (article 3 of the first Protocol to the ECHR). The article, entitled…
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Just Satisfaction Practice
The awarding of just satisfaction and the supervision of the execution of the Court’s judgments in these matters is not always very clear to outside observers. A memorandum prepared by the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of…
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Case Note on Sejdic and Finci
Marko Milanovic (University of Nottingham) has written a case note on the case of Sejdic and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina for the American Journal of International Law (vol. 104, 2010), which he has also published on SSRN. The case, on which…
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Article on Interim Measures
The newest issue of our own Utrecht-based Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights has just been published (vol. 28, nr. 3, 2010). It includes an article on interim measures, comparing the experiences of the European and Inter-American human rights systems, authored by my…
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Friendly Settlements at the Court
A new book on the issue of friendly settlements in Strasbourg has just been published at OUP: Helen Keller, Magdalena Forowicz, and Lorenz Engi have written ‘Friendly Settlements before the European Court of Human Rights. Theory and Practice’. It goes into both…
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Islam and the ECHR
Peter Danchin of the University of Maryland School of Law has posted a paper on SSRN entitled ‘Islam in the Secular Nomos of the European Court of Human Rights’ which analyses the Court’s Article 9 jurisprudence relating to Islam. This is the…
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More ECHR Literature
The Court is restarting its public activities this week after a summer break, with a hearing yesterday and the issuing of its first post-summer judgments later today. A good moment to give the reader an overview of a range of new ECHR-related…