Associate Professor of Human Rights Law and Public International Law at Utrecht University.
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Introducing Our New Assistant Editor
Dear readers of the ECHR Blog, we are very pleased to inform you that the editorial team of our blog will be expanded. As of this week, Matilda Rados is joining us as assistant editor. Matilda Rados is junior lecturer in…
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New Book on Effective Domestic Remedies and the European Court of Human Rights
Michael Reiertsen has published the monograph Effective Domestic Remedies and the European Court of Human Rights: Applications of the ECHR Article 13 with Cambridge University Press. Here is the abstract: ‘In Malone v. UK (Plenary 1984), the right to an effective domestic…
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Conference on Effective Application of ECHR in Areas of Conflict in Europe
On 1 September, the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the School of Law at NUI Galway are hosting a conference on the topic of Lighting the Shade: Effective Application of ECHR in Areas of Conflict in Europe. The conference will take…
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The Range of Solutions to the Russian Cases Pending before the European Court of Human Rights: Between ‘Business as Usual’ and ‘Denial of Justice’
By Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, University of Liverpool Exactly in a month time, on 16 September 2022, Russia will no longer be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR or Convention). The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) will…
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Webinar on the European Court of Human Rights: Between Law and Anthropology
On 19 May, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is hosting an online conversation with Professor Jessica Greenberg and Professor Angelika Nußberger on the European Court of Human Rights: Between Law and Anthropology. The event will be moderated by Dr Alice…
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Fully Funded PhD Positions on ECHR and Migration
The Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is offering two fully funded PhD positions to study the ambivalent role of the European Court of Human Rights as an actor and forum for the human rights turn in legal…
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Mykola Gnatovskyy Elected New Judge in Respect of Ukraine
On 26 April 2022, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected Mykola Gnatovskyy as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ukraine. His term of of office of nine years will commence not later than three months…
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New Issue ECHR Law Review
The ECHR Law Review has just published online its newest issue (vol. 3. issue 2). It contains an editorial note, book review, notes and articles on such topical issues as the war in Ukraine, inter-State applications, mandatory vaccination, to name a few. * Kanstantsin…
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Sterilization of Transgender People: A Worrying Judgment of the Czech Constitutional Court
By Pavel Doubek* On 31 March 2022, the Czech Constitutional Court (CC) quashed the constitutional complaint of an applicant who asked to change her birth registration number to align with her gender identity and contested several provisions of Czech law on account…
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Call for Abstracts: The Value(s) of the European Convention on Human Rights
On 8 and 9 September 2022, Birmingham Law School and PluriCourts will host a workshop on The value(s) of the European Convention on Human Rights. Here is the call for abstracts: The European Convention on Human Rights gives expression to – and establishes –…