Associate Professor of Human Rights Law and Public International Law at Utrecht University.
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New Thematic Factsheet on Roma and Travellers
The Department for the Execution of Judgments of the ECHR has issued a new thematic factsheet on the execution of the Strasbourg Court judgments on ‘Roma and Travellers’. The Council of Europe uses the terms ‘Roma and Travellers’ to encompass the wide diversity of certain…
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Public Lecture on Positive Obligations under the ECHR – Within and Beyond Boundaries
On 10 March, the University of Liverpool is hosting an online public lecture by Dr. Vladislava Stoyanova on Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights – Within and Beyond Boundaries. Here is a brief description of the event: ‘The development of positive obligations has…
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New Book: Putting Human Rights to Work
Philippa Collins, a lecturer at the University of Bristol, has published a book entitled Putting Human Rights to Work: Labour Law, the ECHR, and the Employment Relation (with Oxford University Press). Here is a short description of the book: “The very existence of…
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Academic Freedom in Turkey before the Strasbourg Court: A Third Party Intervention by a Coalition of Academic Interveners
This week a coalition of academics, including this blog’s editors, has submitted a third party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in the so-called ‘Academics for Peace’ cases. The background of these cases is the following: in the wake of…
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New Book: Framing a Convention Community
Cedric Marti of the University of Zurich has published a book entitled Framing Convention Community: Supranational Aspects of the European Convention on Human Rights (with Cambridge University Press). Here is the book abstract: ‘The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has evolved…
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Secretary General Inquires on the Situation in Poland: A Test for Poland and Article 52 ECHR
On 24 November 2021, the Polish Constitutional Court issued a ruling that challenged both the authority of the European Court of Human Rights to decide on the lawfulness of appointment of judges in national courts, and the standards of fair trial under…
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New Book: Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights
Stevie Martin (University of Cambridge) has published a book titled Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights (Routledge). On 4 November, the book won the Yorke Prize – an annual award of the Faculty of Law at the University of…
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Call for Contributions: European Yearbook on Human Rights 2022
The European Yearbook on Human Rights has issued a call for contributions for its 2022 issue. The Yearbook publishes mostly about the European Convention on Human Rights and the Council of Europe. It also contains sections on human rights in the European…
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Guest Post: Turning Water into Wine – The Concealed Metamorphosis of the Effective Control Extraterritoriality Criterion in Carter v. Russia
By Vassilis Tzevelekos and Antal Berkes (University of Liverpool) Introduction On 21 September 2021, the Third Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) rendered its judgment in the case of Carter v. Russia. The case is…
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New Book: Responsive Human Rights – Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR
Corina Heri (University of Zurich) has published a book titled Responsive Human Rights: Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR (Hart, Bloomsbury Publishing). The book is available in open access here. Here is the abstract of the book: “Who is a vulnerable person in human rights…