Lize Glas and Corina Heri Join as ECHR Blog Editors

It is our great pleasure to expand the team of the ECHR Blog with two new editors: Lize Glas and Corina Heri. With the ever-evolving developments, both in practice, in case-law and academia, around the European Convention of Human Rights, it is wonderful that two great ECHR experts will join us with their energy, drive and expertise to further build the ECHR Blog. Welcome on board, Lize and Corina! 

Lize Glas is associate professor of international and European law at the Radboud University in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the functioning of the European Court of Human Rights alone and in combination with other actors. She researches how the Court should function, how it functions in practice and how its functioning can be enhanced. More specifically, she has written about the pilot-judgment procedure, unilateral declarations and third-party interventions. Her research interests also concern the execution of the Court's judgments, the EU’s accession to the ECHR and other Council of Europe treaties and actors. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Dutch-language journal about human rights (NTM/NJCM-Bulletin) and of a case note platform (EHRC Updates), as well as a member of the Advisory Council of CURE.

Corina Heri is assistant professor of administrative and constitutional law at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and from March 2026 she will be the principal investigator of the TEMPORALAW project at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. Her work engages with the ECHR in several ways. Alongside her current interest in the European Court of Human Rights’ climate and environmental cases, she has engaged with the prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment (Article 3 ECHR) and the Court’s concept of vulnerability (including through a monograph, entitled Responsive Human Rights and published by Hart in 2021). She has also written about the Court’s case-law on abusive limitations of rights (Article 18 ECHR), its approach to evidence and to remedies, its relationship with public interest litigation and the conceptual foundations of ECHR rights, among other topics.

As we welcome our two new fellow editors on board, it is also time to say goodbye to our associate editor Jasmine Sommardal, who has served on the blog for almost two years and has now moved her professional trajectory outside academia. We warmly thank her for her excellent contributions to the blog and wish her all the very best!