• New Book in French on Interim Measures

    New Book in French on Interim Measures

    A group of lawyers from the ‘Young Brussels Bar’ has published an edited collection of essays on interim measures at the European Court of Human Rights. The book is entitled ‘Les mesures provisoires devant la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme. Un…

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  • New Vice-President and Section President

    New Vice-President and Section President

    The judges of the European Court have elected a new vice-president, Josep Casadevall, the judge in respect of small Andorra. In addition, a new Section President was elected: Lech Garlicki, the judge in respect of Poland. Casadevall will serve until 31 October…

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  • Article on Inflation of Margin of Appreciation

    Article on Inflation of Margin of Appreciation

    The newest issue of our own SIM-based Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (vol. 29,No.3, 2001) features an article by Jan Kratochvíl, working at the registry of the European Court of Human Rights, entitled ‘The inflation of the margin of appreciation by the…

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  • Newest Issue RTDH

    Newest Issue RTDH

    The newest issue of the Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme (July 2011, No. 87) is out now. Contents include various ECHR related articles (in French): * Antoine Garapon, ‘Les limites à l’interprétation évolutive de la Convention européenne’ Le présent article est…

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  • Network Neutrality and Article 8 ECHR

    Network Neutrality and Article 8 ECHR

    Bert-Jaap Koops (Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society) and Jasper P. Sluijs (Tilburg Law and Economics Center) have published a working paper on SSRN on what might to many perhaps be a surprising angle to approach the ECHR. It’s entitled ‘Network…

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  • Draft Agreement on EU Accession to ECHR

    Draft Agreement on EU Accession to ECHR

    Over summer, a draft agreement on the accession of the EU to the ECHR – I reported on negotiations here – has been made public. This draft was negotiated between the Steering Committee for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CDDH)…

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  • Upcoming Liber Amicorum Judge Rozakis

    Upcoming Liber Amicorum Judge Rozakis

    Bruylant Publishers has announced that it will publish, in November, a liber amicorum dedicated to the retiring Greek judge Rozakis. The bilingual book has been edited by Dean Spielmann, Marialena Tsirli and Panayotis Voyatzis and is entitled ‘La Convention européenne des droits…

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  • Book on Hindrances to Individual Petition

    Book on Hindrances to Individual Petition

    Professor Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad of the University of Strasbourg has written ‘Preventing and sanctioning hindrances to the right of individual petition before the European Court of Human Rights’(Intersentia 2011). This is the abstract: Whereas it is common today to focus on the…

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  • Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda Case Note

    Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda Case Note

    The ever-productive Marko Milanovic of the University of Nottingham has posted a dual case note article on Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda on SSRN, entitled ‘Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda in Strasbourg’. It will not be published in print until 2012 in the European Journal of…

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  • ECHR as a Cosmopolitan Legal Order

    ECHR as a Cosmopolitan Legal Order

    Alex Stone Sweet (Yale University) has posted a working paper on ssrn entitled ‘A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Constitutional Pluralism and Rights Adjudication in Europe’. The paper deals with the ECHR as a cosmopolitan legal order. This is the abstract: The European Convention…

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