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Webinar on ECtHR Climate Change Cases
On Friday 31 May (13:00-14:00 CET) the University of Göttingen is organizing a webinar entitled ‘Climate Change and Human Rights: Exploring the ECHR’s KlimaSeniorinnen and Duarte Agostinho cases’. In the webinar, Corina Heri (Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich) and Kata Dosza…
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New President and Other Changes at the Court
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights announced a number of position changes in its internal organisation. Most pre-eminently, the Court elected its new President: Marko Bošnjak, the Court’s judge in respect of Slovenia. Since 2022, he has been a vice-President…
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75 Years Council of Europe and Civil Society
In the week in which the Council of Europe celebrates its 75th anniversary (founded on 5 May 1949) – a full and bilingual timeline is available here – two civil society initiatives were undertaken: The first is the presentation to states of…
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New Special Issue ECHR Law Review
The first issue of the year of the ECHR Law Review has just been published (Vol. 5, Issue 1). This time it is a special issue entitled ‘The ‘Special’ Relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Convention of Human Rights’. The…
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Seminar on Procedural Costs and the ECtHR
On Friday 31 May from 12:00-13:15, the Faculty of Law of Lund University is organizing a seminar entitled ‘The Costs Policy of the European Court of Human Rights: From Judicialisation to Judicial Restraint‘. In the seminar, Ezgi Özlü (Postdoctoral researcher at the Luxembourg…
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New Book: ‘European Human Rights Grey Zones’
Andrew Forde (Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway) has just published a new book with Cambridge University Press entitled European Human Rights Grey Zones: The Council of Europe and Areas of Conflict. The book explores the effectiveness of the Council…
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New Judges Elected
Last week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), elected three new judges to the European Court of Human Rights, in respect of Ireland, Latvia, and Liechtenstein. In respect of Ireland, Úna Ní Raifeartaigh was elected. She is currently a…
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Recording of Climate Cases Webinar
A recording of the webinar of 19 April 2024, ‘Climate Change in Strasbourg: the recent cases at the European Court of Human Rights’, co-organised by this ECHR Blog and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), is now available here for those who…
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New Session of MOOC on ECHR Starts Again on 4 May
On 4 May 2024 Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR will start again! Registration is open now. To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies – An introduction into…
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ECHR Blog Special Webinar: Climate Change in Strasbourg
On Friday 19 April (15h00 to 16h30 CET), the ECHR Blog and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) are co-organising a special webinar entitled ‘Climate Change in Strasbourg: the recent cases at the European Court of Human Rights’. Last week, we already…
