• Conference on ECHR and Detention

    Conference on ECHR and Detention

    In their collaborative series of lectures and conferences, the French Council of State and the European Court of Human Rights are organising a conference on ‘the European Law Applying to Detention’. The conference will be held in the evening of Monday 28…

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  • Enhanced Supervision by Committee of Ministers of Priority Cases

    Enhanced Supervision by Committee of Ministers of Priority Cases

    This week, the Committee of Ministers held its first meeting of 2011 to supervise the execution of judgments of the European Court. As part of the Interlaken reform process the Committee has introduced a new working method. In order to give the…

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  • Discrimination of HIV-Positive Persons Judgment

    Discrimination of HIV-Positive Persons Judgment

    Today the Court concluded in a case against Russia that the refusal of a residence permit to an Uzbek national solely because he was HIV-positive was in violation of the European Convention of Human Rights. The case of Kiyutin v Russia related…

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  • ECHR Articles in Newest Issue of HRLR

    ECHR Articles in Newest Issue of HRLR

    The March issue (vol. 11, issue 1, 2011) of the Human Rights Law Review includes a number of articles on the ECHR. * Steven Greer, ‘Should Police Threats to Torture Suspects Always be Severely Punished? Reflections on the Gäfgen Case’ In Gäfgen…

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  • Article on EU Antitrust and ECHR

    Article on EU Antitrust and ECHR

    The connections between EU antitrust law and the ECHR receive increasing attention. Earlier, Felix Ronkes Agerbeek guest posted about it on this blog here. Now, Wouter Wils, connected to the European Commission and to King’s College London, has published an upcoming article…

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  • The Court’s Practice Directions for Litigants

    The Court’s Practice Directions for Litigants

    A special page of the website of the European Court of Human Rights is dedicated to practice directions. These directions contain clear and succinct information on a number of aspects of the procedures before the European Court and are mainly directed at…

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  • New Book on NGOs and ECHR

    New Book on NGOs and ECHR

    Loveday Hodson of Leicester University has published the book ‘NGOs and the Struggle for Human Rights in Europe’ with Hart Publishing. It focuses on the extent and effects of NGO involvement in litigation at the European Court of Human Rights – a…

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  • ECHR, Counter-Terrorism and Refugees

    ECHR, Counter-Terrorism and Refugees

    Jens Vedsted-Hansen of Aarhus University School of Law has published an article entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights, Counter-Terrorism, and Refugee Protection’ in the Refugee Survey Quarterly (vol. 29, No. 4, pp.189-206). This the the abstract: The legal developments pertaining to…

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  • Article on ECHR and Domestic Violence

    Article on ECHR and Domestic Violence

    Lee Hasselbacher has published ‘State Obligations Regarding Domestic Violence: The European Court of Human Rights, Due Diligence, And International Legal Minimums of Protection’ in the Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights (Vol. 8, No. 2, 2010). The article places the Eurpean…

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  • TV Programme on the European Court

    TV Programme on the European Court

    Following the controversy in the United Kingdom on the Court’s judgments on voting rights for prisoners, the BBC programme ‘The Record Europe’ has dedicated an episode to the European Court of Human Rights. It explains the controversy and the role and functioning…

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