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ECHR Articles in Newest HRLR
The most recent issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2011) includes a number of articles relating to the European Convention on Human Rights: * Dominic McGoldrick, ‘Religion in the European Public Square and in European Public…
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My New Book on Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR
It is my great joy to announce that a book edited by my good friend Michael Hamilton (Central European University & Ulster University) and myself, entitled ‘Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR. Justice, Politics and Rights’ has just been published by Cambridge University…
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Summer Harvest of Academic Articles
Please find below the “summer harvest” of academic articles published about the European Convention on Human Rights in the past few months in a wide variety of academic journals, in no particular order: * M. Milanovic, ‘Applicability of the ECHR to British…
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Filtering Section at Court
More news that might have escaped attention during the summer: the Court itself reports that its new filtering section, set up in the wake of Interlaken and Protocol 14, to assign in the most efficient way incoming applications to the right formation…
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Article on Judicial Tactics in the European Court
Shai Dothan of Tel Aviv University has written an article entitled ‘Judicial Tactics in the European Court of Human Rights’ which has been published in the Chicago Journal of International Law (vol. 12, no. 1, 2011, p. 115) and is available for…
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New Book on European Court Between Law and Politics
Jonas Christoffersen and Mikael Rask Madsen, of the Danish Institute for Human Rights and of the University of Copenhagen respectively, have edited the book ‘The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics’, now published by OUP. This is the abstract:…
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New Instructions and Statistics on Interim Measures
Responding to the earlier reported high rise in requests for interim measures, the Court has recently issued new instructions on such measures. They specifically relate to request concerning suspension of expulsions, which take up a big part of the total number of…
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New Edition of Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights
A brand new edition of the very accessible and practical (and elaborate) book ‘Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights’ by Philip Leach has just been published at Oxford University Press. Leach is both an academic – professor at…
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Summer Break
Dear readers, I am taking a summer break. No posting for the coming weeks. I will be back in the second half of August. Enjoy your summer, with or without the European Convention!
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Factsheet on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
For those who like summertime puzzles, the Court has now published a factsheet on its website on “Extra-territorial jurisdiction of ECHR States”. It contains the most important decisions and judgments on extraterritoriality of the ECHR of both the former Commission of Human…
