New Issue European Human Rights Law Review

The European Human Rights Law Review has just published a new issue (Issue 4, 2024). The issue contains one editorial, three articles, four case comments and one book review. The contributions focus on contemporary issues in the ECtHR's case law, namely border pushbacks, climate change and the role of the living instrument doctrine.

These are the contents of the issue:

* Kirsty Hughes, 'The 2024 General Election and the Future of

Human Rights in the UK' (editorial)

* Clara Bosch March, 'The Recent Backsliding on the Interpretation of Article 4 of Protocol No.4 ECHR in “Pushback” Cases: A Questionable Attempt to Redress the Hirsi “Overstretch”?' (article)

* Konrad Ksiazek, 'Common Good Constitutionalism Through European Eyes: On Vermeule’s Critique of the Living Instrument Doctrine' (article)

* Corina Heri, 'KlimaSeniorinnen and its Discontents: Climate Change at the European Court of Human Rights' (article)

* Dimitrios Kagiaros, 'Judicial limitation of claims vs effective protection of rights under the ECHR European Court of Human Rights' (case comment on OG and others v Greece, App. Nos 71555/12 and 48256/13)

* Guy Baldwin, 'Support for terrorism and freedom of association European Court of Human Rights' (case comment on Internationale Humanitäre Hilfsorganisation E.V. v Germany, App. No.11214/19)

* Laura Hering, 'No right to strike for teachers with civil-servant status' (case comment on Humpert and others v Germany, App. Nos 59433/18 and others)

* Benedetta Lobina, 'Protecting the watchdogs to preserve democracy' (case comment on Sieć Obywatelska Watchdog Polska v Poland, App. No.10103/20)

* Georgios A. Serghides and Stefanos Erotokritou, Book review of 'Defending Athletes, Players, Clubs and Fans - A Manual for Human Rights Education and Litigation in Sport, in Particular Before The European Court of Human Rights' by Daniel Rietiker 

Workshop: Exploring the Human of the European Court of Human Rights

On 5-6 September 2024, the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich will host a workshop entitled ‘Exploring “the Human” of the European Court of Human Rights’, as part of the project Who is the Court for?  Bringing the Human (back) into Human Rights Research funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

 

Here is the program, which includes a keynote conversation on ‘Judges’ Responsibility for the Visible and Invisible in front of the Court’, featuring Judge Kateřina Šimáčková (European Court of Human Rights) and Prof. Angelika Nuβberger (Director, Academy of European Rights Protection, University of Cologne, former judge and Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights). 

 

You can register here for attending the keynote (in-person only).