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The Press on Interlaken
The European press is reporting on Interlaken, but I must say there is not a lot on it yet. Most news media seem to limit themselves to an overview of the reforms needed rather than an analysis of the conference’s outcomes. Maybe…
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Interlaken Declaration and Protocol 14
Double news from Switzerland. First, Protocol 14 will now finally enter into force on 1 June, after yesterday’s reposit – just before the start of the Interlaken Conference – by Russia of its instrument of ratification. Read the relieved press statements of…
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Interlaken Today and Tomorrow
Today and tomorrow the long-awaited Interlaken conference on the future of the European human rights protection mechanism will take place in the somewhat unlikely setting of the Casino Kusaal of the small Swiss city – symbolically emphasing that one shouldn’t gamble on…
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Literary Heritage Judgment – A Novel by Apollinaire
A century after its publication in 1907, the novel Les Onzes Milles Verges (“The Eleven Thousand Rods”) by the French author Guillaume Apollinaire became the centre of a legal controversy which ended at the highest European level. Yesterday the European Court issued…
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Article on ECHR and Territorial Jurisdiction
It remains a hotly debated issue: the scope and limits of the territorial jurisdiction of the European Court. The newest issue of the European Journal of International Law (vol. 20, No. 4, 2009) contains a new contribution to this debate. Sarah Miller…
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Article on ECHR and Homosexuality
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (volume 10, issue 1) is out (no pun intended) and contains an article by Paul Johnson of the University of Surrey, entitled ‘An Essentially Private Manifestation of Human Personality’: Constructions of Homosexuality in…
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The UK, Devolution, and the ECHR
The campaign for parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom has, amongst many issues, led to a debate on whether the current Human Rights Act, which is based on the ECHR, should be replaced by a specific British Bill of Rights. The NGO…
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ECHR and France News
Last month, a new blog on the ECHR and France was started by Zeki Mardin, in the English language. It focuses on both new applications, pending ones, and follow-up of the European Court’s judgments concerning France. The intended readership is not so…
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Two Articles on EU and ECHR
As a follow-up to my recent post on possible EU accession to the ECHR, here are references to two recent academic articles on the issue, addressing some problems in diverging case-law: * Jiri Malenovsky (a judge at the European Court of Justice),…
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Book on ECHR Reforms and Domestic Implementation
This week a new book on the relationship between the European Court’s reforms and a better domestic implementation of the Convention has been published by Intersentia. Costas Paraskeva, a human rights lawyer in Cyprus, has written ‘The Relationship Between Domestic Implementation of…
