• Article on Children’s Right to be Heard

    Article on Children’s Right to be Heard

    Aoife Daly of Trinity College Dublin has written an article on the rights of children in legal proceedings, entitled ‘The right of children to be heard in civil proceedings and the emerging law of the European Court of Human Rights’. It was…

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  • ECHR and Human Rights Violations in Chechnya

    ECHR and Human Rights Violations in Chechnya

    The Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, in its December 2010 issue, includes an article on remedies offered by the European Court to victims of the armed conflict in Chechnya. The article, written by Kirill Koroteev of the University of Strasbourg, is…

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  • The Court and Changes at the Domestic Level

    The Court and Changes at the Domestic Level

    What is the effect of the European Court’s rulings on other countries than the one in the specific case at hand? An intriguing question not only of legal theory, but especially of practice. A political scientist and a legal scholar have joined…

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  • Kant and the Convention

    Kant and the Convention

    Although Immanuel Kant’s home town of Kaliningrad, formerly Königsberg, falls within the territorial ambit of the European Convention, who would have thought that the famous philosopher’s ideas could be relevant in assessing the national implementation of the ECHR? Mads Andenas of the…

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  • Documents on EU Accession to the ECHR

    Documents on EU Accession to the ECHR

    With the negotiations between the European Union and the state parties to the ECHR in full swing about the accession of the EU to the European Convention, the “Informal Group on Accession of the European Union to the Convention” has a specific…

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  • Case Note on Humanitarian Law and ECHR

    Case Note on Humanitarian Law and ECHR

    It might be an unexpected place to look for it, but the newest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (vol. 10(1), 2011, 129-140) includes a case note by Eriko Tamura of Kansai University in Japan entitled ‘The Isayeva Cases of…

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  • More Documents and Info on Izmir

    More Documents and Info on Izmir

    For all information on the Izmir high level conference (of two weeks ago) on the European Court of Human Rights, a special website can be consulted here. It includes speeches of the key speakers as well as the final declaration which includes…

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  • Article on ECHR and Right to Reputation

    Article on ECHR and Right to Reputation

    Stijn Smet, PhD researcher at the University of Ghent, published an article on ECtHR defamation jurisprudence entitled ‘Freedom of Expression and the Right to Reputation: Human Rights in Conflict’ in the American University International Law Review (Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 183-236).…

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  • Report on Legitimacy of the ECtHR

    Report on Legitimacy of the ECtHR

    Yesterday, the report ‘The Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Right’s: The View from the Ground’ was presented in Strasbourg’. The research for the report was undertaken by Basak Çali, Anne Koch and Nicola Bruch, political scientists of University College London.…

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  • Joint NGO Statement for Izmir Conference

    Joint NGO Statement for Izmir Conference

    Today, the High Level Conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights started in the Turkish city of Izmir. This two-day conference is a meeting of state representatives of all the parties to the European Convention and follows up…

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