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Paper on ECHR and Extraterritoriality
Barbara Miltner of the University of Cambridge has published a paper on Bepress on the extraterritorial application of the ECHR. It is entitled ‘Revisiting Extraterritoriality: the ECHR and its Lessons’ and connects the scope of the ECHR in Article 1 to the…
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Loucaides on Cyprus
Loukis Loucaides, former judge at the European Court of Human Rights, has written a short article about the Cypriotic case-law of the Court in the most recent issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (vol. 24-2, 2011) pp. 435-465. The title…
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Article 6 and Reasoned Verdicts
The role of juries in criminal trials is probably one of the aspects which most facinates the general public. But how do jury decisions square with a defendant’s wish to know on which grounds and considerations he or she has been found…
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The Economist’s View on the Court
Charlemagne, the European columnist of the Economist wrote an Op-Ed earlier this month on Europe’s two highest Courts: Supreme muddle – Europe’s highest courts can be annoying, but they do more good than harm. The gist of the article is that even…
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Article on Children’s Right to be Heard
Aoife Daly of Trinity College Dublin has written an article on the rights of children in legal proceedings, entitled ‘The right of children to be heard in civil proceedings and the emerging law of the European Court of Human Rights’. It was…
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ECHR and Human Rights Violations in Chechnya
The Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, in its December 2010 issue, includes an article on remedies offered by the European Court to victims of the armed conflict in Chechnya. The article, written by Kirill Koroteev of the University of Strasbourg, is…
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The Court and Changes at the Domestic Level
What is the effect of the European Court’s rulings on other countries than the one in the specific case at hand? An intriguing question not only of legal theory, but especially of practice. A political scientist and a legal scholar have joined…
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Kant and the Convention
Although Immanuel Kant’s home town of Kaliningrad, formerly Königsberg, falls within the territorial ambit of the European Convention, who would have thought that the famous philosopher’s ideas could be relevant in assessing the national implementation of the ECHR? Mads Andenas of the…
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Documents on EU Accession to the ECHR
With the negotiations between the European Union and the state parties to the ECHR in full swing about the accession of the EU to the European Convention, the “Informal Group on Accession of the European Union to the Convention” has a specific…
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Case Note on Humanitarian Law and ECHR
It might be an unexpected place to look for it, but the newest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (vol. 10(1), 2011, 129-140) includes a case note by Eriko Tamura of Kansai University in Japan entitled ‘The Isayeva Cases of…
