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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of recent writings, articles and other, about the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Fleur van Leeuwen, ‘Epistemic Blind Spots, Misconceptions and Stereotypes: The Home Birth Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human…
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Call for Papers: Critical Approaches to European Human Rights Law
On 17 January 2025, Esra Demir-Gürsel (Hertie School), Corina Heri (University of Zürich) and Jens Theilen (Helmut Schmidt University) are organizing a workshop on Critical Approaches to European Human Rights Law, and a Call for Papers for the workshop has just been launched.…
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Conference on the Implementation of ECtHR Judgments
On 19 June 2024, the European Implementation Network (EIN) will hold a conference entitled ‘Safeguarding the Rule of Law: Implementing ECtHR Judgments for Lasting Impact’ as part of its project on ‘Promoting the Rule of Law in Europe through the Implementation of…
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Court and Academia Dialogue
The University of Strasbourg’s Law Faculty is organising its fourth annual colloquium between academics and judges of the European Court of Human Rights. The French-language hybrid event, entitled ‘Dialogue entre la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme et la Doctrine’, takes place…
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Webinar on ECtHR Climate Change Cases
On Friday 31 May (13:00-14:00 CET) the University of Göttingen is organizing a webinar entitled ‘Climate Change and Human Rights: Exploring the ECHR’s KlimaSeniorinnen and Duarte Agostinho cases’. In the webinar, Corina Heri (Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich) and Kata Dosza…
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New President and Other Changes at the Court
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights announced a number of position changes in its internal organisation. Most pre-eminently, the Court elected its new President: Marko Bošnjak, the Court’s judge in respect of Slovenia. Since 2022, he has been a vice-President…
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75 Years Council of Europe and Civil Society
In the week in which the Council of Europe celebrates its 75th anniversary (founded on 5 May 1949) – a full and bilingual timeline is available here – two civil society initiatives were undertaken: The first is the presentation to states of…
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New Special Issue ECHR Law Review
The first issue of the year of the ECHR Law Review has just been published (Vol. 5, Issue 1). This time it is a special issue entitled ‘The ‘Special’ Relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Convention of Human Rights’. The…
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Seminar on Procedural Costs and the ECtHR
On Friday 31 May from 12:00-13:15, the Faculty of Law of Lund University is organizing a seminar entitled ‘The Costs Policy of the European Court of Human Rights: From Judicialisation to Judicial Restraint‘. In the seminar, Ezgi Özlü (Postdoctoral researcher at the Luxembourg…
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New Book: ‘European Human Rights Grey Zones’
Andrew Forde (Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway) has just published a new book with Cambridge University Press entitled European Human Rights Grey Zones: The Council of Europe and Areas of Conflict. The book explores the effectiveness of the Council…
