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Paper on Draft EU to ECHR Accession Agreement
Three researchers, Xavier Groussot, Tobias Lock, and Laurent Pech, have published a commentary on the draft agreement on the Accession of the EU to the European Convention on Human Rights. The commentary is available as a policy paper on the website of…
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Book on ECHR and Fundamental Rights Interpretation
Yesterday, I attended the successful PhD defence of Hanneke Senden, a former colleague of mine (congratulations once again, Hanneke!), at Leiden University. Her book deals with the different principles and methods of fundamental rights interpretation, with a focus on the European Court…
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Various News
Last week, on Friday to be precise, the new president of the European Court of Human Rights, Nicholas Bratza took up his duties, succeeding Jean-Paul Costa. See my earlier post on his election here. Then, updates on two ECHR-related academic publications. First,…
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New ECHR Articles
The newest ‘current contents’ selection (October 2011) has been put online by my colleagues here at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM). It includes a wide selection of human rights related articles. Let me highlight the ones about the ECHR here:…
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Update on Election of Judges
The secretariat of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has prepared a new version of the information document ‘Procedure for electing judges to the European Court of Human Rights’. Apart from…
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Today: Seminar on Bridging the Implementation Gap
As a very late announcement, but maybe of interest to those living in the Netherlands: The Netherlands Helsinki Committee, formerly focusing mostly on the OSCE, is today organising a seminar on implementation problems and the ECHR. It is entitled ‘Bridging the Implementation…
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Article on Same-Sex Partners and ECHR
The Child and Family Law Quarterly (vol. 23, No. 1) includes an article entitled ‘Families But Not (Yet) Marriages? Same-Sex Partners and the Developing European Convention ‘Margin of Appreciation’ by Nicholas Bamforth of the University of Oxford. This is the abstract: This…
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Guide on Admissibility Criteria Translated
The Courts’ Practical Guide on Admissibility Criteria, launched at the end of last year, already existed in the Court’s working languages English and French. This week, the Guide has been made available in Italian, German, Greek and Bulgarian. Hopefully, up-to-date Russian, Romanian…
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Report on ECHR and Cypriot Property Issues
The PRIO Cyprus Centre, the Cypriotic branch of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, has published an online report with recommendations on how to move forward in the Cyprus property issue. The report was written by Rhodri Williams, a forced displacement and property…
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Country Profiles on the Court’s Website
This week the European Court of Human Rights took a new step in making its activities more known. The website of the Court now includes country profiles about all state parties to the ECHR. The profiles include a list of previous and…
