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Updated Rules of Court on Recusal of Judges
Yesterday, 22 January, the newest version of the Rules of Court entered into force. Decided by the Plenary of the Court in December, they are part of a series of internal procedural reforms, also related to the Rules of Court, as we reported earlier here. The…
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New Session of MOOC on ECHR Starts Again on 10 February
On 10 February 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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Webinar on ‘The Evidentiary System of the European Court of Human Rights in Critical Perspective’
On 10 January at 14:00 CET, the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University is organizing a webinar launching the new special issue of the ECHR Law Review entitled ‘The Evidentiary System of the European Court of Human Rights in Critical Perspective‘. The…
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New Special Issue ECHR Law Review
Right before Christmas the last issue of 2023 of the ECHR Law Review was published (Vol. 4, issue 4). This special issue, edited by Marie-Benedicte Dembour (Human Rights Centre, Ghent University), looks at the way evidence works at the European Court of Human…
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New Thematic Factsheet on Reproductive Rights
The Council of Europe’s Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has just issued a new thematic factsheet on how judgments of the Court have helped to protect and advance reproductive rights. Here is a brief…
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New ECHR Readings
In the last batch of readings of 2023 related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court, please find our selection below. We wish all our readers a good holiday season! * Helen Keller and Viktoriya Gurash, ‘Expanding NGOs’ standing:…
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New Book on Compliance with ECtHR Judgments
Ramute Remezaite (European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, School of Law, Middlesex University) has just published a new book entitled Compliance with Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: States on a Spectrum of Democratisation. This is the abstract: ‘What does compliance…
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New Book on the ECHR and the Western Balkans
Venera Kabashi (University of Zurich) has just published her dissertation entitled The ECHR and the Western Balkans: Bringing the Convention Home. The book is published by EIZ (Europa Institut an der Universität Zürich) Publishing and is available as an open access book. The…
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Call for Contributions: European Yearbook on Human Rights 2024
The European Yearbook on Human Rights has issued a call for contributions for its 2024 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 Union,…
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Lecture: ‘Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters’
On Thursday 30 November 2023, the President of the ECtHR Síofra O’Leary delivered the annual Mackenzie Stuart Lecture for Cambridge University’s Centre for European Legal Studies on ‘Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters‘. In the lecture President O’Leary discusses…
