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Long Awaited Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda Judgments Delivered
Today, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered its long awaited judgments in the cases of Al-Skeini and others v. the United Kingdom and Al-Jedda v. the United Kingdom. The first case concerned civilians killed during British security…
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New Academic Articles on ECHR
Please find below a new batch of ECHR-related readings for the summer: * J. Lapitskaya, ‘ECHR, Russia, and Chechyna: two is not company and three is definitely a crowd’, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, vol. 43, No. 2…
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Nicholas Bratza Elected Court President
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights elected Sir Nicholas Bratza as its new president. When the term of the current president, the French judge Costa, ends at the beginning of November, Bratza will succeed him in that position. The 66-year old…
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German Book on Pilot Judgments
A new book (in German) on the topic of pilot judgments has been published. Jörn Eschment has written Musterprozesse vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte. This is the abstract: Ende 2009 waren beim Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte rund 120.000 Beschwerden anhängig. Großen…
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Article on European Consensus in Public Law
The article ‘Does consensus matter? Legitimacy of European Consensus in the Case Law of the ECtHR’ by Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou has just been published in Public Law (July 2011 issue, pp. 534-553). I reported on the working paper earlier here. This is, in…
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PACE Calls for More Active Role of National Parliaments
The implementation gap between standards and practice is a recurring issue – and rightly so – in discussions on human rights, also in the context of the ECHR. One way to increase correct and more speedy implementation is to activate national parliaments.…
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New French Judge Elected
Last week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected a new judge in the Court in respect of France: Mr André Potocki. Potocki received 110 out of 160 votes cast. He will succeed judge Costa, the current judge elected in…
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The Convention: a Beanstalk or a Tree?
Baroness Hale of Richmond, justice at the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, delivered a lecture last Thursday with the intriguing title ‘Beanstalk or Living Instrument? How Tall Can the ECHR Grow?’. It is a nuanced call to the European Court of…
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EU Accession to the ECHR and the Election of Judges
With the accession of the European Union to the ECHR on the horizon, negotiations are ongoing on several levels. One technical issue which needs to be worked out is how the EU wil be involved in the election of judges to the…
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Op-Eds on the Court
Colm O’Cinneide has posted an insightful blog article about the recent controversies in the United Kingdom about the Court on the UK Constitutional Law Group Blog, entitled ‘In Defence of the Strasbourg Court’. And yesterday, the online version of the Guardian newspaper…
