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Articles in EHRLR
Three issues of the European Human Rights Law Review of 2011 (on which issues I did not yet report) include a number of articles on the European Convention on Human Rights. Here is an overview. In issue 3: * Sophie Briant, Dialogue,…
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Blog on ECHR and Poland
The ever-expanding blogosphere, specifically the one on human rights, has a new offshoot: Etpcz Blog, a blog on the European Convention on Human Rights in Polish. The blog was created two months ago by Robert Rybski of Warsaw University. Its aim is…
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New Academic ECHR Publications
At the start of the new year a very wide range of articles and publications on the European Convention and the European Court (see the overview below). A very good year to all readers! * Yonatan Lupu and Erik Voeten, ‘Precedent in…
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New Book on Court After Protocol 14
Last year in May, the University of Fribourg organised a conference on the European Court’s future after Protocol 14. The conference book, edited by Samantha Besson, is out now and is entitled ‘La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme après le Protocole…
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Christmas Break
The end of the year is approaching. 2011 was a very eventful year for the European Court of Human Rights. Apart from issuing important case-law, it has also come under intense criticism in some state parties and new reforms to increase its…
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Research Reports of the Court
In the course of this year, the registry of the European Court of Human Rights has published a number of so-called ‘research reports’ online. In the form of succinct handbooks they provide analytical information on the Court’s case-law on a (sofar) restricted…
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New ZaöRV Articles on ECHR
The newest issue of the Zeitschrift for ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, also known as the Heidelberg Journal of International Law (vol. 74, no. 4, 2012) has just been published. It includes two articles relating to the European Convention on Human Rights:…
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Lord Irvine’s Take on the ECHR
Last Wednesday, Lord Irvine of Lairg, the ‘architect’ of the Human Rights Act, delivered a lecture at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law adding to the discussion on the ECHR in the United Kingdom. The lecture is entitled ‘A British…
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ECHR Implementation in Central and Eastern Europe
Frank Emmert, of the School of Law of Indiana University, has posted the findings of an upcoming book (‘The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Central and Eastern Europe’, Eleven International Publishing, 2012) on SSRN in a paper entitled…
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Op-Ed on European Court
Emma Bonino (member of the Italian Senate and former European commissioner) and James Goldston (executive director of Open Society Justice Initiative) have added their voices to the debate about the European Court of Human Rights. In an Op-Ed published in the online…
