Associate Professor of Internatioanl and European Law at Radboud University.
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Conference: International Cooperation under the ECHR
On 15-16 October 2026, the University of Liverpool will host the conference “International Cooperation under the European Convention on Human Rights: Sources, Limits, and Enforceability of State Obligations”. On 15 October at 17:00, Judge Mykola Gnatovskyy (European Court of Human Rights) will…
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Open access book on the impact of the ECHR on the Italian legal system
Lorenzo Acconciamess and Riccardo Pavoni co-edited a book (in Italian) that assesses the impact of the ECHR on the Italian legal system, 75 years after its adoption. This is the absract of the book: Seventy-five years after the adoption in Rome of…
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PACE Autumn Session: ECHR News
The autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) took place last week (18 September – Friday 2 October). Some of the matters that were discussed during this session concern the ECHR. We will highlight three of these:…
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Call for Participants – Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR and Other International Human Rights Systems: A Workshop for Early Career Researchers
The Academy for European Human Rights Protection at the University of Cologne and the University of Zurich are pleased to announce an open call for participants for their upcoming joint workshop, “Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR and Other…
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Open-Minded or Open-Ended? The Chișinău Declaration on the ECHR and Migration
On 15 May, the 46 Council of Europe states adopted the Chișinău Declaration on the ECHR and migration. The Declaration, which follows several extraordinary meetings of the Steering Committee on Human Rights, does not echo the express criticism of the ECtHR’s case law contained in the Letter…
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Rolling Call for ECHR Blog Guest Posts
We would like to inform you that the ECHR Blog warmly welcomes guest posts on an ongoing basis. Guest posts can cover topics such as new ECtHR judgments, recent changes relating to the EC(t)HR, and developments at the Council of Europe relating…
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New Judges Elected in Respect of Cyprus and the Netherlands
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected two new judges to the ECtHR, who will serve a nine-year term (Article 23(1) ECHR): Nicholas Emiliou in respect of Cyprus and Corinna Wissels in respect of the Netherlands. Nicholas Emiliou,…
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An Exceptional Ministerial Conference on the ECHR and ‘Migration Challenges’
An informal ministerial conference took place in Strasbourg on human rights day, 10 December 2025. As is explained in more detail below, this exceptional gathering was prompted by a letter of nine ECHR states of about seven months earlier. The ministerial conference…