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Working Paper on ECHR and Copyright Law
Robin Herr of the Copenhagen Business School Law Department has posted a working paper on SSRN entitled ‘The Right to Receive Information Under Article 10 of the ECHR: An Investigation from a Copyright Perspective’. This is the abstract: The purpose of this…
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New Guide on EU and ECHR Non-Discrimination Law
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It also marks the launch of a new book entitled ‘European Non-Discrimination Law’, which integrates the converging yet very complex interlocking system of non-discrimination law of the European Union and of…
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Grand Chamber Judgment in Lautsi: No Violation
Today, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Italy did not violate the ECHR in the highly publicised case about crucifixes in classrooms in Italian public schools. The judgment in Lautsi v Italy follows two years after…
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Case Note to Gäfgen v Germany in International Legal Materials
I have just posted on SSRN my introductory case note to the European Court’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Gäfgen v Germany, on which I posted earlier here, as it was published in the International Legal Materials of the American…
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Two Cases Referred to Grand Chamber
Recently, a panel of five judges of the European Court of Human Rights decided to refer two cases on which previously sections of the Court pronounced themselves, to the Grand Chamber. It concerns the cases of Kurić and Others v. Slovenia, on…
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Conference on ECHR and Detention
In their collaborative series of lectures and conferences, the French Council of State and the European Court of Human Rights are organising a conference on ‘the European Law Applying to Detention’. The conference will be held in the evening of Monday 28…
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Enhanced Supervision by Committee of Ministers of Priority Cases
This week, the Committee of Ministers held its first meeting of 2011 to supervise the execution of judgments of the European Court. As part of the Interlaken reform process the Committee has introduced a new working method. In order to give the…
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Discrimination of HIV-Positive Persons Judgment
Today the Court concluded in a case against Russia that the refusal of a residence permit to an Uzbek national solely because he was HIV-positive was in violation of the European Convention of Human Rights. The case of Kiyutin v Russia related…
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ECHR Articles in Newest Issue of HRLR
The March issue (vol. 11, issue 1, 2011) of the Human Rights Law Review includes a number of articles on the ECHR. * Steven Greer, ‘Should Police Threats to Torture Suspects Always be Severely Punished? Reflections on the Gäfgen Case’ In Gäfgen…
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Article on EU Antitrust and ECHR
The connections between EU antitrust law and the ECHR receive increasing attention. Earlier, Felix Ronkes Agerbeek guest posted about it on this blog here. Now, Wouter Wils, connected to the European Commission and to King’s College London, has published an upcoming article…
