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Guest Blog on Grand Chamber Judgment in Navalnyy v Russia
A key judgment on Article 18 ECHR was delivered earlier this month by the Court’s Grand Chamber, Navalnyy v Russia. I am happy to announce a guest commentary on this judgment by Floris Tan, PhD researcher at Leiden University. He is one of…
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Call for Papers 60 Years of the European Court of Human Rights
The University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre has launched a call for papers for its annual Student Human Rights Conference, geared towards postgraduate students. The theme of this 20th edition of the conference, to be held on 29 March 2019, is…
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Guest Blog : Minimalist Compliance in the UK Prisoner Voting Rights Cases
It is my pleasure to introduce another guest blog to you – this time by Andreas von Staden of the University of Hamburg. He has made an insightful analysis of Strasbourg’s prisoner voting rights cases from the perspective of implementation, building on the findings…
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Book on ECHR as Tort Law
Stefan Somers (Free University Brussels) has written a new book on a less often studied aspect of the ECHR system – its use as tort law. The book, published with Intersentia, is entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights as an Instrument…
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ECHR Articles in Latest HRLR
The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2018) includes no less than four ECHR related Articles: * Robert Spano (ECtHR), ‘The Future of the European Court of Human Rights—Subsidiarity, Process-Based Review and the Rule of…
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Conference on Detained Persons and the ECHR
The European Prison Litigation Network (EPLN) is organising the international conference “Overcoming obstacles to the access of detained persons to rights and the judge: European perspectives” at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on 6 and 7 December. The full programme…
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Call for Papers on ‘the Greek Case’ after 50 Years
Next year will mark 50 years since the famous ‘Greek case’ in the ECHR system, when the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden lodged a complaint with the (then still existing) European Commission of Human Rights against the military colonels’ regime in Greece.…
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Short Introduction to the ECHR
For those readers who want a quick and short introduction into the system of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Council of Europe has produced a new and concise book, authored by Martyn Bond ( a journalist and former European civil…
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Book on ECHR and General International Law
Professor Anne van Aaken (University of St. Gallen) and ECtHR Judge Julia Motoc (also connected to the University of Bucharest) have published the edited volume ‘The European Convention on Human Rights and General International Law‘ in the European Society of International Law…
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Handbook on Implementation of ECtHR Judgments
The European Implementation Network has published a new handbook entitled ‘Implementation of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights – A Handbook for NGOs, injured parties and their legal advisers‘. The handbook is a great ‘how-to” guide for civil society organisations…
