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Winter School on ECHR and Migrants
The University of Bologna – the oldest in Europe – is organising a ‘Winter School’ on ‘The European Convention of Human Rights: mechanism of protection and rights of migrants’ from 10 to 14 January 2011. According to the organisers, the course aims…
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Case Note on Demopoulos Decision
Over at Terra Nullius, a specialised blog on housing, land and property (HLP) rights, Rhodri Williams has published a case note on the Demopoulos v. Turkey decision, which was issued earlier this year by the European Court on property of persons in…
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UN Sanctions Case Goes to Grand Chamber
The idosyncratic case of Youssef Moustafa Nada v Switzerland, an application brought to the European Court two years ago, was relegated to the Grand Chamber of the Court this week. The ordinary Chamber which was to deal with the case has relinquished…
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60 Years ECHR Website
In a few weeks from now, on 4 November, it will be exactly 60 years ago that the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was signed in Rome (it entered into force three years later). To celebrate this, the Court…
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Non-Discrimination, the Military, and Parental Leave
Equal rights for fathers and mothers, should they exist even in the army? That was at issue in the recently decided case of Konstantin Markin v. Russia. It is a case on gender roles in childcare and on non-discrimination in issues of…
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An Expert Advisory Panel for Selection of Judges
Last Friday the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) welcomed the call of the Court’s president, Costa, to set up an expert panel which could advise state parties about the lists of three candidate judges which they plan to submit…
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Working Paper on EU Accession to ECHR
Tobias Lock of University College London has posted a working paper on SSRN on the upcoming accession of the European Union to the ECHRr. Currently, negotiations on this are ongoing. This is the abstract of the working paper, entitled ‘Accession of the…
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New Estonian and Greek Judges
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly elected two new judges to the Court, in respect of Estonia and of Greece. The new Estonian judge will be Ms Julia Laffranque, who won an absolute majority of 116 votes, more than her two opponents taken together.…
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PACE Rapporteur Calls for National Application of ECHR Case-Law
Speaking at a conference in the Macedonian capital Skopje last week, Christos Pourgourides, chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly stressed the need for parliaments and national judges to take more account of the jurisprudence…
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Case Law Made More Accessible
One of the ways to ease the case-load of the Court is to make the case-law more accessible and more known in the state parties to the European Convention. Thus, in a follow-up to the Interlaken conference earlier this year, the Court…
