Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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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…
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Article on Russia and the ECHR
The newest issue (volume 2-2, 2010) of the online journal Göttingen Journal of International Law has been put online. It includes an article entitled ‘The Russian Federation, Protocol No. 14 (and 14 bis), and the battle for the soul of the ECHR’,…
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Book on International Law at the European Court
To appear this month: a brand new study on how international law features in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. The book, published at Oxford University Press, was written by Magdalena Forowicz (University of Zürich) and is entitled ‘The…
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Article on Predicaments and Challenges of the European Court
The 2009 volume of the German Yearbook of International Law features a contribution by Michael O’Boyle, deputy registrar at the European Court, & John Darcy, entitled ‘The European Court of Human Rights: Accomplishments, Predicaments and Challenges’, pp. 139-180. For those interested in…
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New Journal Articles on ECHR
Summer brings a range of new articles on the European Convention and the European Court in various academic journals on human rights. The newest Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 10-3, 2010) includes: * Alastair Mowbray, ‘The Interlaken Declaration—The Beginning of a New…
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Militant Democracy, Religion, and the ECtHR
Patrick Macklem of the University of Toronto has posted ‘Guarding the Perimeter: Militant Democracy and Religious Freedom in Europe’ on SSRN. It covers the case law of the European Court of Human Rights concerning the religion-state nexus. This is the abstract: This…
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Court Statistics Halfway 2010
The Court has published two documents (a pie chart and a table) which provide a snapshot of the current state of applications at the Court. The snapshot was taken exactly halfway the year, on 30 June 2010. As the table shows the…