Year: 2017
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New Book on ECHR and Judicial Activism and Passivism
Professor Adam Wiśniewski of the University of Gdansk has published a book on the stance and position of the European Court in Strasbourg. The book, entitled The European Court of Human Rights. Between Judicial Activism and Passivism, has been published with Gdansk University Press. This…
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New Book on the Use of Force and Article 2 ECHR
Dr Hannah Russell of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has just published a new book on the right to life with Hart Publishing, entitled ‘The Use of Force and Article 2 of the ECHR in Light of European Conflicts‘. This is the abstract: ‘Article…
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Videos on the European Court
The special web page of the website of the European Court on Human Rights that is dedicated to short videos on the Court and its procedures has been further extended. It now also includes new language versions of the film about the Court in Bulgarian,…
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Article on Baka and the Rule of Law
David Kosař and Katarína Šipulová of Masaryk University have written: ‘The Strasbourg Court Meets Abusive Constitutionalism: Baka v. Hungary and the Rule of Law‘, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law (2017). This is the abstract: ‘The rise of abusive constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has…
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Report on Selection of Judges
The International Commission of Jurists and the Open Society Justice Initiative have published a report on the selection of human rights judges (including at the European Court of Human Rights). The report, entitled ‘Strengthening from Within. Law and Practice in the Selection of Human Rights…
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Fifth Edition of Free Online Course on ECHR
This coming Monday 23 October, we are launching the fifth edition of our successful and free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR. It is entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies. An introduction into the European Convention on Human Rights‘ and is offered on…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below another batch of new academic writings about the European Convention and the European Court: * Elisa Ravasi, Human Rights Protection by the ECtHR and the ECJ – A Comparative Analysis in Light of the Equivalency Doctrine (Brill 2017): ‘In her manuscript Elisa Ravasi…
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Call for Papers: Workshop at European Court of Human Rights
On 21 September 2018, a group of leading academic centres in Europe, including our own Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), is co-organising a workshop at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The workshop is entitled: Responding to Legitimacy Challenges: Opportunities and Choices…
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Book on Clashing Rights at the European Court
The excellent colleagues over at the Ghent Human Rights Centre have published a new book on conflicts between rights in Strasbourg. The book, edited by dr Stijn Smet and professor Eva Brems, is entitled When Human Rights Clash at the European Court of Human Rights…
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ECHR Papers on SSRN
A number of authors have recently posted interesting ECHR-related papers (either as drafts or as pre-publication forthcoming articles in journals) in the online repository SSRN. These include: * Mikael Rask Madsen (Copenhagen University), ‘Bolstering Authority by Enhancing Communication: How Checks and Balances and Feedback Loops Can…