Lecturer in Human Rights Law and International Law at Utrecht University.
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Book Launch: The ECtHR and the Norm Against Torture
On Thursday 20 June (12:00-14:00 CET), the University of Amsterdam is organizing a book launch of the book ‘Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm against Torture‘, authored by Ezgi Yildiz (California State University, Long Beach). The…
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Call for Papers: Critical Approaches to European Human Rights Law
On 17 January 2025, Esra Demir-Gürsel (Hertie School), Corina Heri (University of Zürich) and Jens Theilen (Helmut Schmidt University) are organizing a workshop on Critical Approaches to European Human Rights Law, and a Call for Papers for the workshop has just been launched.…
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Conference on the Implementation of ECtHR Judgments
On 19 June 2024, the European Implementation Network (EIN) will hold a conference entitled ‘Safeguarding the Rule of Law: Implementing ECtHR Judgments for Lasting Impact’ as part of its project on ‘Promoting the Rule of Law in Europe through the Implementation of…
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Webinar on ECtHR Climate Change Cases
On Friday 31 May (13:00-14:00 CET) the University of Göttingen is organizing a webinar entitled ‘Climate Change and Human Rights: Exploring the ECHR’s KlimaSeniorinnen and Duarte Agostinho cases’. In the webinar, Corina Heri (Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich) and Kata Dosza…
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New Special Issue ECHR Law Review
The first issue of the year of the ECHR Law Review has just been published (Vol. 5, Issue 1). This time it is a special issue entitled ‘The ‘Special’ Relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Convention of Human Rights’. The…
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Seminar on Procedural Costs and the ECtHR
On Friday 31 May from 12:00-13:15, the Faculty of Law of Lund University is organizing a seminar entitled ‘The Costs Policy of the European Court of Human Rights: From Judicialisation to Judicial Restraint‘. In the seminar, Ezgi Özlü (Postdoctoral researcher at the Luxembourg…
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New Book: ‘European Human Rights Grey Zones’
Andrew Forde (Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway) has just published a new book with Cambridge University Press entitled European Human Rights Grey Zones: The Council of Europe and Areas of Conflict. The book explores the effectiveness of the Council…
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New Session of MOOC on ECHR Starts Again on 4 May
On 4 May 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…
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The Northern Ireland Amnesty Act under Scrutiny in Strasbourg
By Matilda Radoš* On 17 January 2024, Ireland submitted a new inter-state application (no. 1859/24) against the United Kingdom before the European Court of Human Rights under Article 33 ECHR. The case concerns the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023,…
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Webinar on ECtHR’s Judgments in Climate Change Cases
On Friday 12 April 13:00 CET the University of Lausanne is organizing a reaction webinar on the ECtHR’s first judgments on climate change. In the webinar, scholars and practitioners will offer their reactions and preliminary assessments of the decisions, to be delivered…