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New Icelandic and Danish Judges Elected
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected two new judges to the European Court of Human Rights, in respect of Denmark and Iceland. The new Danish judge will be Anne Louise Haahr Bormann. she has professional…
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Webinar on Ukraine v. Russia before the European Court of Human Rights
On 1 February, the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität (Kiel) will hold an online seminar entitled “Of Parties, Third Parties, and Treaty Intertretation: Ukraine v. Russia before the European Court of Human Rights“. The speakers include Isabella Risini…
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New Handbook on the ECHR
Mark Villiger, former judge at the European Court of Human Rights and professor emeritus at the University of Zürich, has just published a new Handbook on the European Convention on Human Rights with Brill. It is oriented towards practice and covers both the organisation of the Court itself,…
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New Book on Combating Hate Speech During Electoral Processes
The Council of Europe has published the new book Toolkit on combating hate speech during electoral processes. Here is a brief summary: ‘Freedom of expression is enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights and protects citizens from interference with their right to…
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New Book: Taxation at the European Court of Human Rights
Robert Attard (EY and University of Malta) and former ECtHR judge Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque (the Catholic University of Portugal) have published a book entitled Taxation at the European Court of Human Rights. Here is an overview of the book: Taxation at…
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Workshop: Legitimate Aims and Ulterior Purposes in International Human Rights Law
On 2 June 2023, the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School is hosting a workshop on the Legitimate Aims and Ulterior Purposes in International Human Rights Law. The workshop, co-organised by PluriCourts at the University of Oslo and the Academy…
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Happy New Year from the ECHR Blog
Dear readers of the ECHR Blog, let us start off by wishing all of you a happy and good new year! After a more than tumultuous year in which the Council of Europe lost its largest member state when it invaded another one, causing enormous…
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New Thematic Factsheet on Hate Crime and Hate Speech
The Council of Europe’s Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has just issued a new thematic factsheet on hate crime and hate speech. Here is a brief description: ‘Hate crime is a criminal act motivated…
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Call for Abstracts ‘Heads and Tails’: ECHR Admissibility and Remedies
On 15-16 June 2023, we are organising the international academic workshop ‘Heads and Tails’: Admissibility and Remedies at the European Court of Human Rights’ at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. It is part of a collaboration between the Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law and…
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Online Course ‘Introduction to the ECHR and the Court’
The Council of Europe is offering the free six-hour online course ‘Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights‘. The course offers legal professionals and others a way to get familiarized with the text of…
