Lecturer in Human Rights Law and International Law at Utrecht University.
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Conference on the Role of the CoE in the Pursuit of Peace, Justice and Accountability
On 27 February 2025, the Dublin European Law Institute (DELI) of Dublin City University is organizing a high-level conference to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The conference will focus on the role of the Council of Europe…
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Podcast Episode on Russia and the CoE
This week the Council of Europe’s OCEAN network released a new podcast episode about the relations between Russia and the Council of Europe and Russia’s ultimate expulsion from the Council of Europe. In the episode, recorded at the University of Liverpool, Kanstantsin…
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New Issue European Human Rights Law Review
The European Human Rights Law Review has just published a new issue (Issue 6, 2024). The issue contains one editorial, three research articles, three case comments and one book review. The articles focus on the topics of the construction of border walls…
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Conference on the ECtHR and Democracy Promotion
On 5 and 6 December this year, Mikael Rask Madsen (director of iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen) and Cormac Mac Amhlaigh (Law School of the University of Edinburgh) are organizing a two-day workshop entitled ‘‘Taking Ambivalence Seriously’: The European Court of Human…
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New Book on the ECHR and Private Law
Mateja Durovic (King’s College London, UK) and Cristina Poncibò (University of Turin, Italy) (editors) have just published a new edited book entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights and Private Law: Comparative Perspectives from South-Eastern Europe‘. The edited book contains various contributions adressing…
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Event Marking the 25th Anniversary of CoE Human Rights Commissioner
On 21 November, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner of Human Rights Michael O’Flaherty is convening a high-level event to mark the 25th anniversary of the institution, entitled ‘25th Anniversary of the Commissioner for Human Rights: Facing the future with confidence, building on…
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Conference on the Council of Europe after 75 Years
On 5 and 6 December 2024, the Grenoble Alpes University is organizing a conference entitled ‘The Council of Europe: How to move forward after 75 years? The past, present and future of an international organization in its seventies’. During the conference various…
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New Book: ‘The Transformation of European Climate Litigation’
Maxim Bönnemann (Senior Editor at Verfassungsblog and Rapporteur for Germany at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law) & Maria Antonia Tigre (Director of Global Climate Change Litigation at the Sabin Center at Columbia Law School) have published a new edited ebook…
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New Session of the MOOC on ECHR Starts Again on 2 November
On 2 November 2024 Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR will start again! Registration is open now. To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies – An introduction into the…
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New Issue European Human Rights Law Review
The European Human Rights Law Review just published a new issue (Issue 5, 2024). The issue contains one editorial, three research articles, seven case comments and one publication review. The articles focus on the topics of the recognition of a right to…