Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New: Irish Human Rights Law Review
Earlier this year, a new journal was launched: the Irish Human Rights Law Review. In a way it is a kind of yearbook since it will be published once a year. This is what the first editorial says about the review: A…
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Book on National Judicial Treatment of ECHR
A new book on the use of the ECHR by national judges, in a comparative perspective, also with EU law, has been published: ‘The National Judicial Treatment of the ECHR and EU Laws’ (Europa Law Publishing 2010). A Comparative Constitutional Perspective’. It…
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New Articles on ECHR (Hate Speech, Minorities, and More)
I am back after a summer break with fresh energy and a new reading notification for this blog’s readers: Uladzislau Belavusau, a Ph.D. researcher at the European University Institute in Florence has published ‘Dernier Cri from Strasbourg: An Ever Formidable Challenge of…
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Blog’s Summer Break
This blog is taking a one month summer break. I will be back at the beginning of August and wish all the readers of this blog a very good summer!
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Summer Readings on ECHR
As one of the final round-ups for the summer, please find below the latest ECHR-related articles from SIM’’s current contents selection of human rights articles. Enjoy reading! * T. Esteban Fernández, ‘Environmental cases in the ECHR: a focus in noise pollution’, Yearbook…
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Special Issue Greek Law Journal on ECHR
A special issue of the Greek Law Journal “Nomiko Vima” has just been published online with a range of articles celebrating last year’s fifth decade of existence of the European Court of Human Rights. With over twenty contributions, mostly in English, some…
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First Decision on Lack of a Significant Disadvantage
On the very day of the entry into force of Protocol 14, 1 June 2010, the Court immediately seized the opportunity to start using a new key admissibility criterion introduced by that Protocol, as a press release of the Court highlights this…
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Article on ECHR and Abortion
Shannon Calt has just posted a comment on the upcoming ECHR decision in A, B, and C v. Ireland, a case on abortion. The article, entitled ‘A., B. & C. v. Ireland: ‘Europe’s Roe v. Wade’?’ was published in the Lewis &…
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ECtHR Judgment: States not Obliged to Allow Homosexual Marriages
In a key judgment issued today, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on a complaint of a homosexual couple in Austria who were denied the right to marry. Although very recently (January 2010) Austria created the possibility to enter into a…
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New ECHR Academic Articles
Three new ECHR-related articles have recently been published. The first is authored by Nadezhda Purtova and has just been published in our own Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Vol. 28, No. 2, 2010, pp. 179-198). It is entitled ‘Private Law Solutions in…