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Welcoming Dr. Jasmine Sommardal as Associate Editor
We are very pleased to announce that the editorial team of our blog will be expanded. As of this week, Dr. Jasmine Sommardal is joining us as associate editor. Jasmine Sommardal completed her PhD at the European University Institute on the topic…
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Webinar: KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland: what happens next?
On 22 January 2025, the London School of Economics and Political Science is hosting a webinar ‘KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland: what happens next? Exploring the pathways to implementation and compliance‘. Here is a brief description of the event: In April 2024, the European…
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75 Years ECHR and its Impact
As we enter the year in which the European Convention on Human Rights will turn 75 (in November) the Council of Europe has updated and expanded its dedicated website on how the ECHR has impacted law, policy and practice across Europe. These…
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New Book on the European Court and Constitutional Courts
Marco Simonelli, of the University of Barcelona, has published a monograph on one of the key interactions within the ECHR system: that between the European Court in Strasbourg and domestic constitutional courts. The book is entitled ‘The European Court of Human Rights…
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New Blog Year and New ECHR Readings
On behalf of the editorial team of the ECHR Blog a very happy new year to all our readers! We hope that this will be a good year for you personally and professionally. And let us for sure hope that human rights…
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Call for Papers: The Role of the Causal Inquiry for Finding Breaches of Human Rights Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights
On 5 and 6 June 2025, Lund University is hosting a workshop on The Role of the Causal Inquiry for Finding Breaches of Human Rights Obligations under the European Convention on Human Right. Background Causation is widely applied in national law for…
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Is fair trial under threat? A controversial dilemma in Mamić and Others v. Croatia
By Dušan Ignjatović and Mihailo Pavlović, attorneys at law from Belgrade, Serbia On 29 August 2024, the Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights rendered a landmark inadmissibility decision in Mamić and Others v. Croatia. The case concerns Mr. Zoran…
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New Issue European Human Rights Law Review
The European Human Rights Law Review has just published a new issue (Issue 6, 2024). The issue contains one editorial, three research articles, three case comments and one book review. The articles focus on the topics of the construction of border walls…
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Conference on the ECtHR and Democracy Promotion
On 5 and 6 December this year, Mikael Rask Madsen (director of iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen) and Cormac Mac Amhlaigh (Law School of the University of Edinburgh) are organizing a two-day workshop entitled ‘‘Taking Ambivalence Seriously’: The European Court of Human…
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New Book on the ECHR and Private Law
Mateja Durovic (King’s College London, UK) and Cristina Poncibò (University of Turin, Italy) (editors) have just published a new edited book entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights and Private Law: Comparative Perspectives from South-Eastern Europe‘. The edited book contains various contributions adressing…
