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More on EU Accession to the ECHR
Last week the European Parliament held a hearing on the future accession of the European Union to the European Convention of Human Rights. A number of experts addressed the meeting. The speech of Serhiy Holovaty of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly…
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Article on Symbolic Legal Personhood
Yofi Tirosh of Tel Aviv University has just posted a paper online entitled ‘A Name of One’s Own: Gender and Symbolic Legal Personhood in the European Court of Human Rights’. This is the abstract: Legal regulation of surnames provides a fascinating venue…
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Book on ECHR and Northern Ireland
Oxford University Press has just published a book on the role of the European Convention on Human Rights in Northern Ireland: Brice Dickson’s ‘The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland’. This is the abstract: This book provides…
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Roma Education Grand Chamber Judgment in Orsus
Today, the Grand Chamber of the Court delivered its judgment in the case of Oršuš and Others v. Croatia. It found that the separate education of many Roma children in several Croatian towns (in one school most Roma were put in separate…
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Article on FMG, the Netherlands and the ECHR
My Utrecht colleague from the institute of criminal law, Renée Kool, has just published ‘The Dutch approach to female genital mutilation in view of the ECHR. The time for change has come’ in the latest issue of the Utrecht Law Review (Vol.…
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Article on Continuing Violations
My colleague Yves Haeck, together with A. Van Pachtenbeke of Ghent University, have authored an article on continuing violations and the ECHR. It has been published in the most recent issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (see also two posts…
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Key Judgments of Last Week
Let me highlight here three key judgments and decisions the Court delivered last week. The first is the judgment of Kozak v. Poland on the rights of homosexuals. The Court held that a blanket exclusion of persons living in a homosexual relationship…
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Article on Interim Measures
The most recent issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (No. 1, 2010) features an article on interim measures by Catharina Harby. It is entitled ‘The Changing Nature of Interim Measures before the European Court of Human Rights’. This is the…
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New Academic ECHR Articles
Three new ECHR-related articles have been published in the past few months, two in English and one in German: * L. Wildhaber, ‘Ein Überdenken des Zustands und der Zukunft des EGMR’, Europäische Grundrechte Zeitschrift vol. 36 (2009), pp. 541-553, on the current…
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Series of Conferences on ECHR
The French Council of State, together with the European Court of Human Rights, is organising a series of conferences in 2010 and 2011. The first one, on 19 April of this year in Paris, will be devoted to ‘the principle of subsidiarity…
