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Once in a Generation?
Yesterday, Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom – which is currently chairing the UK – addressed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The main part of the speech concerned the European Court of Human Rights. Cameron packed his…
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PACE Resolution on Authority and Effectiveness of ECHR
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted the report ‘Guaranteeing the authority and effectiveness of the European Convention on Human Rights’, on which I earlier blogged here in November. The accompanying resolution (No. 1856) calls, as by tradition…
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And More New ECHR Publications
And yet another batch of new ECHR-related books and articles. The first is a book on freedom of expression and minorities, written by colleague and friend Tarlach McGonagle of the University of Amsterdam. Its entitled ‘Minority Rights, Freedom of Expression and of…
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Report Wilton Park on Future of European Court
Last November, a big conference was held at Wilton Park in the United Kingdom. It was an international informal discussion meeting between national judges and parliamentarians, state representatives, Council of Europe and Court offocials and civil society experts on discussing the future…
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New Working Paper on Margin of Appreciation
Paul Gallagher, associated to the University College Dublin, has posted a working paper on the Court and the margin of appreciation on SSRN. It’s entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights and the Margin of Appreciation’. This is the abstract: The debate…
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Articles in EHRLR
Three issues of the European Human Rights Law Review of 2011 (on which issues I did not yet report) include a number of articles on the European Convention on Human Rights. Here is an overview. In issue 3: * Sophie Briant, Dialogue,…
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Blog on ECHR and Poland
The ever-expanding blogosphere, specifically the one on human rights, has a new offshoot: Etpcz Blog, a blog on the European Convention on Human Rights in Polish. The blog was created two months ago by Robert Rybski of Warsaw University. Its aim is…
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New Academic ECHR Publications
At the start of the new year a very wide range of articles and publications on the European Convention and the European Court (see the overview below). A very good year to all readers! * Yonatan Lupu and Erik Voeten, ‘Precedent in…
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New Book on Court After Protocol 14
Last year in May, the University of Fribourg organised a conference on the European Court’s future after Protocol 14. The conference book, edited by Samantha Besson, is out now and is entitled ‘La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme après le Protocole…
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Christmas Break
The end of the year is approaching. 2011 was a very eventful year for the European Court of Human Rights. Apart from issuing important case-law, it has also come under intense criticism in some state parties and new reforms to increase its…
