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Call for Papers: Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience
On 6 and 7 November 2025, the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation (CELI) of the University of Leicester and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law are organizing a conference to mark the 75th anniversary of the ECHR and the…
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Nine States Call for ‘Open-Minded Conversation’ on ECHR and Migration
In a very remarkable initiative, the heads of government and state of no less than nine European states together published an open letter yesterday calling for a shift in interpreting the ECHR in the field of migration, especially relating to ‘irregular migration’…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of academic writing related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Spyridoula Katsoni, ‘Is the Obligation Not to Refoule a Positive Obligation? An Intermediate Approach Toward the Classification Dilemma’, Human Rights Law Review (2025):…
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L. and Others v. France: Sexist Judicial Bias, Himpathy and Victim-Blaming
Guest post by Margarita S. Ilieva, strategic international equality and human rights litigator Introduction In L. et Autres c. France, for the first time, the Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged that judicial reasoning which negatively stereotypes, blames and therefore revictimises (secondary…
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New Special Issue ECHR Law Review
The first issue of the year of the ECHR Law Review has just been published (Vol. 6, Issue 1). This issue is a special issue entitled ‘The New Agreement on the EU Accession to the echr: Can It Succeed?’. The issue contains…
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Judge Mattias Guyomar Elected President of the European Court of Human Rights
On 28 April 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or the Court) elected Mattias Guyomar, Judge in respect of France, as its new President. He succeeds President Marko Bošnjak and will take up office on 30 May 2025. Judge Guyomar…
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New Session of the MOOC on ECHR Starts Again on 6 May 2025
On 6 May 2025 Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR will start again! Registration is open now. To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies – An introduction into…
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Hybrid Event on Women Judges in the ECHR
On 13 May 2025 at 18:30, the Academy for European Human Rights Proteciton of the University of Cologne is organizing a lecture entitled ‘Gender and Justice: The Past and Future of Women Judges in the ECHR‘. During this event, Professor Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez (Université…
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Book on Gender and the Court
Sanna Elfving of the University of Lincoln (UK) has published the book Gender and the European Court of Human Rights with Routledge. Following her earlier work on the European Court of Justice, this book approaches the Strasbourg Court from a similar perspective. This is…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of academic readings related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Mohammad Mohammadi, Martijn Wieling and Michel Vols, ‘An interpretable approach to detect case law on housing and eviction issues within the…
