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Conference on Effects and Implementation of ECtHR Judgments
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On 20 and 21 September a large conference entitled 'Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights – Effects and Implementation' is organised at the Institute of International Law at Goettingen University in Germany. The convenors are Mark Vil...
New Handbook on ECHR and EU Law on Asylum, Borders and Immigration
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A cooperative project between the European Court of Human Rights and the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union has resulted in a Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration. It was presented today in Strasbourg...
New ECHR Publications
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An update on new publications related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court:* Barbara Mikołajczyk, 'Is the ECHR ready for global ageing?', International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 17, no. 4 (2013).Three contributions in the...
European Yearbook on Human Rights
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I think I have not yet notified readers of the ECHR-related contents of the 2012 volume of the European Yearbook on Human Rights. Here they are (full table of contents here):* Tatjana CARDONA, Elisabeth HANDL-PETZ, Eva LECHNER and Brigitte OHMS, 'ECt...
Committee of Ministers Annual Report on Supervising Implementation
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I had not highlighted it here yet, but the Committee of Ministers published, in April, its Annual Report on its supervision of the execution of the Court's judgments and decisions. As the report shows, several trends are positive: less judgments on r...
Blog Anniversary - 5 Years!
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Yesterday, 26 May, it was exactly five years ago that I started this blog on the European Convention of Human Rights. Looking back at the first post, I see that I had a rather grand aim of being "a portal to information on the European Court of...
Protocol 15 to the ECHR Adopted
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Last week, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the new Protocol 15 to the European Convention of Human Rights. It will be be opened for signature at the end of June and will enter into force three months after all ECHR state p...
Book on Constitutional Relevance of the ECHR
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Giorgio Repetto has just published an edited volume with Intersentia entitled 'The Constitutional Relevance of the ECHR in Domestic and European Law. An Italian Perspective'. This is the abstract:In recent years the European Convention on Human Right...
ECHR Articles in Liber Amicorum Pieter van Dijk
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A liber amicorum for the recently retired Dutch jurist Pieter van Dijk, also a former judge at the European Court of Human Rights, has been published with Intersentia. It is entiteld 'Fundamental Rights and Principles. Liber Amicorum Pieter van...
New ECHR Publications
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Please find below another batch of new academic articles on the European Convention of Human Rights: * E. Brems and L. Lavryse, 'Procedural justice in human rights adjudication: the European Court of Human Rights', Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 35, no...
New Book Constituting Europe
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Next month, the book 'Constituting Europe. The European Court of Human Rights in a National, European and Global Context' will be published by Cambridge UP. It was edited by Andreas Follesdal, Birgit Peters, and Geir Ulfstein. It espec...
Tymoshenko Judgment - Former Ukranian Prime Minister Arbitrarily Detained
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Today, the Court issued its judgment in the very sensitive case of Yuliya Tymoshenko, the currently detained former prime minister of Ukraine. Tymoshenko's predicament has already led to political tensions within Ukraine, obviously, but also between...
PACE Appoves Draft Protocol 15
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Today, just before the start of the weekend, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved Draft Protocol 15 to the ECHR. With a large majority it voted in favour. Without any amendment being necessary in the view of PACE, the D...
Seminar on ECHR and Detention Conditions
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The Academy of European Law (ERA) is organising a seminar in Strasbourg on 20-21 June on 'The European Convention’s, European Court of Human Rights’ and national courts’ roles in improving conditions related to detention.' The semi...
Animal Defenders International v. UK Grand Chamber Judgment - Ban on Political Advertising Upheld
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At the start of this week, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights upheld the United Kingdom's ban on political advertising for TV and radio in Animal Defenders International v the United Kingdom. The NGO Animal Defenders Internationa...
Russian Version of Court's Anniversary Book Presented
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Earlier this week, the Russian translation of the Court's anniversary book (which dates from two years ago - see here) was presented. It will be distributed to 5,000 local judges and prosecutors in Russia. Symbolic as this may be, more important for...
New Case Law Developments in Removal and Extradition
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Last week, the European Court of Human Rights issued two judgments and an important decision, all dealing with state-enforced transfer of people from one state to another. One case is about the extradition of a suspected criminal to the United States...
Article on Draft Protocol 16
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Dr Paul Cragl of the City University London has written an article about the Draft Protocol 16 (yet to be formally adopted). The article, entitled '(Judicial) Love is Not a One-Way Street: The EU Preliminary Reference Procedure as a Model for ECtHR A...
NGO Reaction to Draft Protocol 15 and Comment
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Dear readers, it is my pleasure to host another guest post on this blog. This time by dr Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou of the University of Surrey. He has written some short comments on the very recent Open Letter of a group of leading human rights NGOs di...
New Academic Articles on the ECHR
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The newest edition of SIM's 'Online Contents' on human rights publications (March 2013) is out now. It includes a number of ECHR-related publications. By far the most concern the various issues of the European Human Rights Law Review of last year (20...
