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The Life of an Application
To be found on the website of the European Court of Human Rights: a clear and handy flowchart of the ‘life of an application’, from the moment a dispute begins at the national level, all the way through proceedings at the Court…
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Dublin II Grand Chamber Judgment – Expulsion within EU
Today, the Grand Chamber issued a key judgment on expulsion of an Afghan national from Belgium to Greece and found violations of human rights by both countries in the case of M.S.S. v Belgium and Greece. The judgment is bound to affect…
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States Not Obliged to Assist Persons Wishing to Commit Suicide
Today, the Court decided in the case of Haas v. Switzerland (judgment in French only) that the right to private life is not violated when a state refuses to help a person who wishes to commit suicide by enabling that person to…
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Article on Court After Interlaken
In the wake of last year’s Interlaken reform summit, discussions have started again about the core functions of the European Court of Human Rights. A recent working paper by Fiona de Londras of University College Dublin, later to be published in the…
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New Book on History of European Court of Human Rights
Before I specialised in human rights law, I studied history. I was therefore especially happy to see the recent publication of the book ‘The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights. From Its Inception to the Creation of a Permanent Court…
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Two New Electronic Articles on the ECHR
Recently, two ECHR-related articles have been published on SSRN. First, this is ‘Nordic Constitutionalism and European Human Rights – Mixing Oil and Water?’, authored by Jaakko Husa of the Law Faculty of the University of Lapland. This is the abstract: This article…
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Fribourg Conference on ECHR after Protocol 14
The University of Fribourg in Switzerland is organising a conference on May 4 of this year entitled “The European Court of Human Rights after Protocol 14 – Preliminary Assessment and Perspectives”. Speakers include former European Court judges Lucius Caflisch and Luzius Wildhaber…
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New Academic Articles on ECHR
The new year starts with information on two articles from well-known ECHR experts in two even more well-known journals. George Letsas published his article ‘Strasbourg’s Interpretive Ethic: Lessons for the International Lawyer’, in the European Journal of International Law (vol. 21, no.…
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Conference on Mainstreaming Diversity and the ECHR
The research group of professor Eva Brems of The Human Rights Centre of Ghent University is organising a conference at the at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, on 3 and 4 February 2011. It is entitled ‘Mainstreaming Diversity:…
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Last Post of 2010
On this shortest day of the the year, the Court has made one last big puff and delivered over 50 judgments, at the end of a year which was both turbulent, very busy for the Strasbourg institutions, and which also saw increasing…
