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New Case Law Fact Sheets
As reported here in October last year, the Court is increasingly making it’s case-law accessible by putting thematic electronic factsheets online which summarise the jurisprudence on a particular topic. In 2011 almost twenty new factsheets have been added to the Court’s website:…
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Article on Strasbourg and Social Security
Emeritus professor Marc Bossuyt has written the article ‘L’extension de la compétence de la Cour de Strasbourg aux prestations sociales : sur l’interprétation de l’article 14 de la Convention combiné avec l’article 1er du Protocole n° 1 dans les affaires Gaygusuz, Koua…
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Article on Unlawful Detention of Unauthorised Aliens
Ian Bryan (Lancaster University) and Peter Langford (Edge Hill University) have uploaded the abstract of the following article on SSRN: ‘The Unlawful Detention of Unauthorised Aliens Under the European System for the Protection of Human Rights’. It will be published in the…
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Court Closes Pilot Procedure on Polish Rent Control Cases
The Court announced today on its website that it has closed one of its earliest pilot judgment procedures, the so-called Polish rent-control cases. This is the press release: A systemic problem with Poland’s housing legislation has been resolved to the satisfaction of…
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London Conference on EU Accession to ECHR
The European Institute of University College London is organising a conference on 20 May 2011 entitled “Who will be the ultimate guardian of human rights in Europe? Implications of the European Union’s Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights”. This is…
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Article on ECHR Abuse Clause and Freedom of Expression
The newest issue of our Utrecht/SIM publication, the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (vol. 29, no. 1) includes an article by Hannes Cannie and Dirk Voorhoof, both of Ghent University, entitled ‘The Abuse Clause and Freedom of Expression in the European Human…
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Italian Book on Role of the Judge and ECHR
Roberto Conti has just written a new Italian-language book on the European Convention on Human Rights and the role of the judge (La Convenzione europea dei diritti dell’uomo. Il ruolo del giudice), published with Aracne Editrice. This is the abstract in Italian:…
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New Academic Articles on ECHR
A few recent articles concerning the ECHR in law journals: the Columbia human rights law review (vol. 42, 2010/11, no. 1), pp. 233-277 includes: * A. Izumo, Diplomatic assurances against torture and ill treatment: European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence The Fordham…
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Pilot Judgment Procedure Included in Rules of Court
The phenomenon of the Pilot Judgment Procedure for a long time lacked a clear legal basis, although it had a stronger political backing by way of calls of the Committee of Ministers. In addition, it was not always clear when and how…
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Bluff Your Way Into The ECHR
The information department of the Court has compiled a small online brochure entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights in 50 Questions’. Ranging from “Does the Convention evolve?” to ‘What is a pilot judgment?’, the small online booklet contains a wide range…
