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Winter School on the ECHR and Non-Discrimination in Italy
The University of Bologna is organising a so-called Winter School on the topic “The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR): The Principle of Non-Discrimination” from 13 to 17 January 2014. It will be held at the University’s School of Political Science in…
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Call for Papers on ECHR and Economic Crisis
The Cyprus Human Rights Law Review has issued a call for papers on the theme Recourse to the European Human Rights Law framework in response to the economic crisis which will result in a special issue of the journal. The deadline is…
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New ECHR Publications and New Publisher for Court’s Report Series
Returned from summer break, I am starting off with a short overview of a number of recent publications on the ECHR. The new publications on the ECHR are: * Andrew Drzemczewski, ‘L’élection du juge de l’Union européenne à law Cour européenne des…
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Blog Summer Break
The European Court of Human Rights has updated the case-law page of its website (and I am not talking about the search engine HUDOC here). This page now includes the regularly updated Reports of Judgments and Decisions, a selection which permits outsiders…
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Book on NHRIs with ECHR Chapter
The book edited by Katrien Meeuwissen and Jan Wouters (both at Leuven University), entitled National Human Rights Institutions in Europe Comparative, European and International Perspectives has now been published. It includes my chapter ‘The Court’s Ears and Arms: National Human Rights Institutions and the European…
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ECHR Readings
With temperatures in much of Europe rising higher, here is a new batch of ECHR-related readings. The new edition of the Human Rights Law Review includes two ECHR-related articles: * Giulio Itzcovich, ‘One, None and One Hundred Thousand Margins of Appreciations: The Lautsi…
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Asylum Seekers from Iraq Judgments
It is my pleasure to introduce another guest post on the blog, by expert colleague on migration law, Maarten den Heijer, on the European Court’s recent Iraq asylum cases: Court: Christian asylum seekers from Iraq can internally relocate Maarten den Heijer, assistant…
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Three Important Judgments of this Week
As the Court (and this blog) are moving towards summer recess, let me highlight three important judgments the European Court of Human Rights delivered this week (every time with the press release summary of the Court itself – the first two are…
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New Book on Pilot Judgment Procedure
A new book on the Court’s pilot judgment procedure has been published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. It is entitled ‘The Pilot-Judgment Procedure of the European Court of Human Rights’ and was written by Dominik Haider of the University of Vienna. This is the abstract…
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New ECHR Academic Articles
The newest update of human rights “current contents” (June 2013), from a very wide range of academic sources, has been put online by our SIM documentation team. The articles specifically related to the European Convention and the European Court include: * F. Dorssemont,…
