• New Report on Structural Problems in ECHR State Parties

    New Report on Structural Problems in ECHR State Parties

    I wish all my readers a very good 2013! To start of this blogging year right away, I would like to draw your attention to a new report by rapporteur Serhii Kivalov, of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), entitled…

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  • Christmas Break

    Christmas Break

    Dear readers, this blog and its author are taking a Christmas break. I wish all of you a very good holiday season. May 2013 be a year with lots of interesting new development in ECHR jurisprudence, but even more importantly with a better…

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  • Conference on ECtHR and ECJ

    Conference on ECtHR and ECJ

    Oxford Brookes University is organising a conference on Europe’s two main Courts: the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. The conference will be held on 18 January and is entitled ‘Fundamental Rights In Europe: A Matter For…

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  • New Book on Diversity and the ECHR

    New Book on Diversity and the ECHR

    Professor Eva Brems of Ghent University, who leads one of the largest current ECHR-research projects in Europe with a very talented ‘crew’ of researchers, has compiled a book on diversity issues within the jurisprudence of the European Court. The approach of the book…

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  • Musings of a Former Judge

    Musings of a Former Judge

    With yesterday’s post about translations into many languages in mind, I dare to post for once a publication in one of Europe’s smaller languages, Dutch (also my own incidentally). At the occasion of his retirement from the European Court of Human Rights,…

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  • Court Information in Many More Languages

    Court Information in Many More Languages

    The Court is continuing to expand its translations of key publications for potential applicants and the general public. Currently, the “Questions & Answers”, “The ECHR in 50 Questions”, and the leaflet “The Court in brief”, have been translated into the official languages of…

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  • Book on European Court in the Post-Cold War Era

    Book on European Court in the Post-Cold War Era

    Dr James Sweeney of the University of Durham has written a very interesting monograph on the intersection of the universality of human rights and the specifics of transitional justice, with the European Court as its case study. The book, entitled ‘The European…

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  • Deportation of Children Judgment

    Deportation of Children Judgment

    It is my pleasure to have a guest blog today by dr Maarten den Heijer, former colleague and a specialist in European migration law. He has been so kind to comment on the judgment of Butt v Norway, delivered by the Court…

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  • New Academic Articles on the Convention

    New Academic Articles on the Convention

    The newest ‘Current Contents Selection’ of my home base SIM has been put online. It includes the following ECHR-related articles (I am only mentioning the ones I did not refer to before on this blog). First off, the Cambridge Law Journal (vol.…

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  • Court’s Guide to Case-Law per Article

    Court’s Guide to Case-Law per Article

    This week, the European Court of Human Rights started to publish a new series of studies on its jurisprudence relating to specific Articles of the ECHR, the so-called Guide to Case-law. Another addition to its range of informative tools about the Convention – next to the information…

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