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Judge Mattias Guyomar Elected President of the European Court of Human Rights
On 28 April 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or the Court) elected Mattias Guyomar, Judge in respect of France, as its new President. He succeeds President Marko Bošnjak and will take up office on 30 May 2025. Judge Guyomar…
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New Session of the MOOC on ECHR Starts Again on 6 May 2025
On 6 May 2025 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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Hybrid Event on Women Judges in the ECHR
On 13 May 2025 at 18:30, the Academy for European Human Rights Proteciton of the University of Cologne is organizing a lecture entitled ‘Gender and Justice: The Past and Future of Women Judges in the ECHR‘. During this event, Professor Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez (Université…
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Book on Gender and the Court
Sanna Elfving of the University of Lincoln (UK) has published the book Gender and the European Court of Human Rights with Routledge. Following her earlier work on the European Court of Justice, this book approaches the Strasbourg Court from a similar perspective. This is…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of academic readings related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Mohammad Mohammadi, Martijn Wieling and Michel Vols, ‘An interpretable approach to detect case law on housing and eviction issues within the…
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Protecting the Voice of Lawyers in Courtrooms: Pisanski v. Croatia and its Aftermath
By Naz Yılancıoğlu (Maastricht University) On 4 June 2024, the Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rendered an important judgment in Pisanski v Croatia, which sheds light on the protection of lawyers’ freedom of expression when representing their clients…
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Online Event: ”CoE and Russia: Lessons Learned?”
On Friday 25 April 10:00-11:30 CEST, the Campaign to Uphold Rights in Europe (CURE) is hosting an event on the recently published book entitled ‘Russia, the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights: A Troubled Membership and Its Legacy‘.…
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Book on Sentencing Mentally Disordered Offenders and the ECHR
Candan Yilmaz of the University of Groningen has published the book Sentencing Mentally Disordered Offenders: comparing provisions in Türkiye, England and Wales, and the Netherlands to the ECHR framework with Groningen University Press. The book, based on her PhD dissertation, is available…
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Conference on EU Accession to the ECHR
On 15 and 16 May 2025, the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the School of Law and Social Justice of the University of Liverpool, and the journals Lex & Forum and the ECHR Law Review are co-organizing a workshop…
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Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
On Thursday 24 April from 09:00 to 13:00, the European Society of International Law (ESIL) and the European Court of Human Rights are co-organizing a workshop entitled ‘Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: New Horizons in European Legal Protection‘. The conference will focus…
