Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Article on Subsidiary Character of ECHR – Lithuania as Case Study
The newest issue of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law has been published (Volume 9, 2009). It includes an article on the relation of the European system of human rights protection to national jurisdictions by Danutė Jočienė, entitled ‘The Subsidiary Character of…
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Article on ECtHR and Non-Monetary Relief
The newest issue of the Harvard Human Rights Journal (vol. 23, no. 1, 2010) features an article by Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton of American University Washington College on Law, entitled ‘The power of the European Court of Human Rights to order specific non-monetary relief:…
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Less Than 1 Euro Not a Significant Disadvantage
The European Court is continuing to make clear that it will use the new criterion of a lack of a significant disadvantage for applicants (introduced by Protocol 14 ECHR) to declare cases inadmissible. In a July decision in a case called Korolev…
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Legitimacy of Human Rights Review at the ECtHR
Professor Andreas Føllesdal of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights has posted ‘The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Review: The Case of the European Court of Human Rights’ on SSRN. The article, published in the Journal of Social Philosophy (Vol. 40-4, 2009,…
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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…