-

New Book on the ECHR Regime and Immigration and Minority Policies
Dia Anagnostou (Associate Professor, Panteion University of Social Sciences) has just published a new book entitled The European Convention of Human Rights Regime: Reform of Immigration and Minority Policies from Afar. Here is the abstract: ‘Prompted by an unprecedented rise of litigation since the…
-

New Book on Fair Trial Rules of Evidence in ECtHR Case-Law
Jurkka Jämsä (Vaasa Court of Appeal, Finland) has published the monograph Fair Trial Rules of Evidence. The Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights with Routledge. It is a very structured practice-oriented guide on the law of evidence and the…
-

New Thematic Factsheet on the Reopening of Domestic Judicial Proceedings Following the European Court’s Judgments
Last week, the Council of Europe’s Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has published a new thematic factsheet on the reopening of domestic judicial proceedings following judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Here…
-

CoE Guidelines on Preventing and Remedying ECHR Violations
We had not yet reported on it, but at the end of last month, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted guidelines to assist themselves, the 46 Council of Europe member states, in their efforts to comply with their obligations…
-

New Book: Exporting the European Convention on Human Rights
Maria-Louiza Deftou (Postdoctoral Researcher at the Athens Public International Law Center) has just published a monograph entitled Exporting the European Convention on Human Rights with Bloomsbury. Here is the abstract: ‘This book explores how the European Convention on Human Rights operates and…
-

New ECHR Readings
Please find below a number of newly published readings related to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights of the last few months: ● Veronika Fikfak and Lora Izvorova, ‘Language and Persuasion: Human Dignity at the…
-

Launch of the Court’s Knowledge Sharing Platform
On 18 October 2022, the Court’s Knowledge Sharing platform (ECHR-KS) was launched, a platform developed by the Registry. On the platform, up-to-date data and analyses of developments in the Court’s case-law through specific Convention Articles/Transversal Themes are shared. The platform thereby complements…
-

Video Interview with Court President Robert Spano
Current Court President Robert Spano is in his last few weeks at the helm of the European Court of Human Rights. To look back at his presidency of the Court over the last 2.5 years, he has been interviewed this month by…
-

New Book: Case Law Compendium on the Death Penalty and Extrajudicial Execution
Jeremy McBride (Barrister at Monckton Chambers, London, specialising in cases before the ECHR and the UNHRC) has published the book entitled Compendium of case law of the European Court of Human Rights on the death penalty and extrajudicial execution, with Council of Europe (2022).…
-

Hybrid Colloquium on Margin of Appreciation
This Thursday 13 October, in the afternoon, Maastricht University, is organising a hybrid colloquium entitled ‘The Margin of Appreciation as the Bridge Between the Universal Presence of Human Rights and Their Concrete Implementation’. The full programme can be found here. This is…