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The Court’s Practice Directions for Litigants
A special page of the website of the European Court of Human Rights is dedicated to practice directions. These directions contain clear and succinct information on a number of aspects of the procedures before the European Court and are mainly directed at…
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New Book on NGOs and ECHR
Loveday Hodson of Leicester University has published the book ‘NGOs and the Struggle for Human Rights in Europe’ with Hart Publishing. It focuses on the extent and effects of NGO involvement in litigation at the European Court of Human Rights – a…
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ECHR, Counter-Terrorism and Refugees
Jens Vedsted-Hansen of Aarhus University School of Law has published an article entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights, Counter-Terrorism, and Refugee Protection’ in the Refugee Survey Quarterly (vol. 29, No. 4, pp.189-206). This the the abstract: The legal developments pertaining to…
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Article on ECHR and Domestic Violence
Lee Hasselbacher has published ‘State Obligations Regarding Domestic Violence: The European Court of Human Rights, Due Diligence, And International Legal Minimums of Protection’ in the Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights (Vol. 8, No. 2, 2010). The article places the Eurpean…
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TV Programme on the European Court
Following the controversy in the United Kingdom on the Court’s judgments on voting rights for prisoners, the BBC programme ‘The Record Europe’ has dedicated an episode to the European Court of Human Rights. It explains the controversy and the role and functioning…
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Article on Pilot Judgments in EHRLR
Stuart Wallace of the University of Nottingham has published an article on the pilot judgments at the European Court in the newest issues of the European Human Rights Law Review (No. 2011) pp. 71-81. It is entitled ‘Much ado about nothing? The…
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Dutch Short Videos on Key ECHR Rights
A collection of short videos explaining, through the real-life cases of Dutch people, the significance of a number of key ECHR rights is available online (including the right to liberty, the freedom of expression and the right to a fair trial). The…
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Transitional Jurisprudence and ECHR Book
How does the European Court of Human Rights deal with issues of transitional justice? What effect do transitions in European states have on Strasbourg case-law and how does Strasbourg jurisprudence affect transitions from authoritarian rule and protracted conflict to democracy and peace?…
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Two New Papers on ECHR on SSRN
In the last few weeks two new papers relating to the European Convention on Human Rights have been posted on the Social Science research Network (SSRN). Wouter P. J. Wils, connected both to the European Commission and to King’s College London, has…
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Alarming Rise in Requests for Interim Measures
The number of applications might be on the rise in Strasbourg, but the number of requests for interim measures has seen an even sharper increase: a rise of 4000 % in the last four years. If this were a company, the shareholders…
