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European Yearbook on Human Rights
I think I have not yet notified readers of the ECHR-related contents of the 2012 volume of the European Yearbook on Human Rights. Here they are (full table of contents here): * Tatjana CARDONA, Elisabeth HANDL-PETZ, Eva LECHNER and Brigitte OHMS, ‘ECtHR…
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Committee of Ministers Annual Report on Supervising Implementation
I had not highlighted it here yet, but the Committee of Ministers published, in April, its Annual Report on its supervision of the execution of the Court’s judgments and decisions. As the report shows, several trends are positive: less judgments on repetitive…
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Blog Anniversary – 5 Years!
Yesterday, 26 May, it was exactly five years ago that I started this blog on the European Convention of Human Rights. Looking back at the first post, I see that I had a rather grand aim of being “a portal to information on…
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Protocol 15 to the ECHR Adopted
Last week, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the new Protocol 15 to the European Convention of Human Rights. It will be be opened for signature at the end of June and will enter into force three months…
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Book on Constitutional Relevance of the ECHR
Giorgio Repetto has just published an edited volume with Intersentia entitled ‘The Constitutional Relevance of the ECHR in Domestic and European Law. An Italian Perspective’. This is the abstract: In recent years the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) gained unexpected relevance…
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ECHR Articles in Liber Amicorum Pieter van Dijk
A liber amicorum for the recently retired Dutch jurist Pieter van Dijk, also a former judge at the European Court of Human Rights, has been published with Intersentia. It is entiteld ‘Fundamental Rights and Principles. Liber Amicorum Pieter van Dijk’ and includes the…
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New ECHR Publications
Please find below another batch of new academic articles on the European Convention of Human Rights: * E. Brems and L. Lavryse, ‘Procedural justice in human rights adjudication: the European Court of Human Rights’, Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1 (2013) …
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New Book Constituting Europe
Next month, the book ‘Constituting Europe. The European Court of Human Rights in a National, European and Global Context’ will be published by Cambridge UP. It was edited by Andreas Follesdal, Birgit Peters, and Geir Ulfstein. It especially looks at multilevel issues of interaction of…
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Tymoshenko Judgment – Former Ukranian Prime Minister Arbitrarily Detained
Today, the Court issued its judgment in the very sensitive case of Yuliya Tymoshenko, the currently detained former prime minister of Ukraine. Tymoshenko’s predicament has already led to political tensions within Ukraine, obviously, but also between Ukraine and other countries (as well…
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PACE Approves Draft Protocol 15
Today, just before the start of the weekend, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved Draft Protocol 15 to the ECHR. With a large majority it voted in favour. Without any amendment being necessary in the view of PACE,…