• Draft Agreement on EU Accession to ECHR

    Draft Agreement on EU Accession to ECHR

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    Over summer, a draft agreement on the accession of the EU to the ECHR – I reported on negotiations here – has been made public. This draft was negotiated between the Steering Committee for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CDDH)…

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  • Upcoming Liber Amicorum Judge Rozakis

    Upcoming Liber Amicorum Judge Rozakis

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    Bruylant Publishers has announced that it will publish, in November, a liber amicorum dedicated to the retiring Greek judge Rozakis. The bilingual book has been edited by Dean Spielmann, Marialena Tsirli and Panayotis Voyatzis and is entitled ‘La Convention européenne des droits…

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  • Book on Hindrances to Individual Petition

    Book on Hindrances to Individual Petition

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    Professor Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad of the University of Strasbourg has written ‘Preventing and sanctioning hindrances to the right of individual petition before the European Court of Human Rights’(Intersentia 2011). This is the abstract: Whereas it is common today to focus on the…

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  • Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda Case Note

    Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda Case Note

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    The ever-productive Marko Milanovic of the University of Nottingham has posted a dual case note article on Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda on SSRN, entitled ‘Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda in Strasbourg’. It will not be published in print until 2012 in the European Journal of…

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  • ECHR as a Cosmopolitan Legal Order

    ECHR as a Cosmopolitan Legal Order

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    Alex Stone Sweet (Yale University) has posted a working paper on ssrn entitled ‘A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Constitutional Pluralism and Rights Adjudication in Europe’. The paper deals with the ECHR as a cosmopolitan legal order. This is the abstract: The European Convention…

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  • ECHR Articles in Newest HRLR

    ECHR Articles in Newest HRLR

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    The most recent issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2011) includes a number of articles relating to the European Convention on Human Rights: * Dominic McGoldrick, ‘Religion in the European Public Square and in European Public…

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  • My New Book on Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR

    My New Book on Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR

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    It is my great joy to announce that a book edited by my good friend Michael Hamilton (Central European University & Ulster University) and myself, entitled ‘Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR. Justice, Politics and Rights’ has just been published by Cambridge University…

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  • Summer Harvest of Academic Articles

    Summer Harvest of Academic Articles

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    Please find below the “summer harvest” of academic articles published about the European Convention on Human Rights in the past few months in a wide variety of academic journals, in no particular order: * M. Milanovic, ‘Applicability of the ECHR to British…

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  • Filtering Section at Court

    Filtering Section at Court

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    More news that might have escaped attention during the summer: the Court itself reports that its new filtering section, set up in the wake of Interlaken and Protocol 14, to assign in the most efficient way incoming applications to the right formation…

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  • Article on Judicial Tactics in the European Court

    Article on Judicial Tactics in the European Court

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    Shai Dothan of Tel Aviv University has written an article entitled ‘Judicial Tactics in the European Court of Human Rights’ which has been published in the Chicago Journal of International Law (vol. 12, no. 1, 2011, p. 115) and is available for…

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