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US Supreme Court and ECtHR Judges will meet in Washington DC
The US Department of State and George Washington University Law School are jointly organising a high-level conference in which several US Supreme Court justices will speak and discuss with several European Court of Human Rights Judges. The conference is entitled ‘Judicial Process…
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Speeches of Bratza and Hammarberg
I did not link to them yet, but at the opening of the judicial year in Strasbourg both the Court’s President, Sir Nicolas Bratza, and the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Thomas Hammarberg, both delivered speeches. Bratza for…
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New Publications on the ECHR
Again, a number of new academic publications relating to the European Convention on Human Rights and the Court in Strasbourg. For a fuller overview of recent articles on human rights, from which this is just an ECHR-related excerpt, please consult the very…
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Video on Admissibility Criteria
In its continuing quest to better inform citizens of the possibilities and limits of the European human rights protection system, the Court has launched yet a new tool: a short youtube movie which in about three minutes – and with the generous…
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The Court’s Annual Report 2011
Today, at the opening of the judicial year in Strasbourg, the Annual Report and an overview of facts and figures for 2011 were presented. This includes a table of violations (by country). It reveals that the top five of countries against which…
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Once in a Generation?
Yesterday, Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom – which is currently chairing the UK – addressed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The main part of the speech concerned the European Court of Human Rights. Cameron packed his…
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PACE Resolution on Authority and Effectiveness of ECHR
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted the report ‘Guaranteeing the authority and effectiveness of the European Convention on Human Rights’, on which I earlier blogged here in November. The accompanying resolution (No. 1856) calls, as by tradition…
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And More New ECHR Publications
And yet another batch of new ECHR-related books and articles. The first is a book on freedom of expression and minorities, written by colleague and friend Tarlach McGonagle of the University of Amsterdam. Its entitled ‘Minority Rights, Freedom of Expression and of…
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Report Wilton Park on Future of European Court
Last November, a big conference was held at Wilton Park in the United Kingdom. It was an international informal discussion meeting between national judges and parliamentarians, state representatives, Council of Europe and Court offocials and civil society experts on discussing the future…
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New Working Paper on Margin of Appreciation
Paul Gallagher, associated to the University College Dublin, has posted a working paper on the Court and the margin of appreciation on SSRN. It’s entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights and the Margin of Appreciation’. This is the abstract: The debate…
