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The Northern Ireland Amnesty Act under Scrutiny in Strasbourg
By Matilda Radoš* On 17 January 2024, Ireland submitted a new inter-state application (no. 1859/24) against the United Kingdom before the European Court of Human Rights under Article 33 ECHR. The case concerns the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023,…
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Danileţ v. Romania: A Plea for Judges’ Freedom of Expression
by Dragoș Călin, Judge and co-president of the Romanian Judges’ Forum Association Introduction In the case no.16915/21, Danileţ v. Romania, the European Court of Human Rights held on February 20, 2024, by a majority (four votes to three), that there…
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Climate Cases Decided Today: Small Step or Huge Leap?
by Antoine Buyse and Kushtrim Istrefi This morning, the European Court of Human Rights issued its Grand Chamber decisions and judgment in three keenly awaited climate change cases. Two cases were declared inadmissible, but the Swiss grandmothers (Klimaseniorinnen) won their case in…
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Webinar on ECtHR’s Judgments in Climate Change Cases
On Friday 12 April 13:00 CET the University of Lausanne is organizing a reaction webinar on the ECtHR’s first judgments on climate change. In the webinar, scholars and practitioners will offer their reactions and preliminary assessments of the decisions, to be delivered…
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New ECHR Articles in the HRLR
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2024) has been published, which includes a symposium. – partly comparable with a special issue – on the theme of ‘The European Court of Human Rights and the…
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Summer School on the Council of Europe
The School of Law and Social Justice of the University of Liverpool will be organizing its second summer school on the Law of the Council of Europe. It will take place between 8-19 July 2024 and is useful for postgraduate students, post-doctoral…
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New Book on the European Court and its Two Regional Siblings
Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen of the Sorbonne University in France has published an English-language version of her earlier comparative work in French on the three regional human rights courts. The book, entitled The 3 Regional Human Rights Courts in Context – Justice That Cannot…
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Up in the Trees – Interim Measures and Environmental Protesters
A rather unusual request to Strasbourg: earlier this week, the European Court of Human Rights rejected a request for interim measures by a group of environmental protesters in France. The protesting people, known as écureuils (squirrels), have been up, at a height…
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Call for Abstracts Workshop 75 Years Council of Europe
The University of Grenoble-Alpes is organising the workshop ‘The Council of Europe: How to move forward after 75 years? The past, present and future of an international organisation in its seventies’ in December 2024, with Anca Ailinca as convener. It has issued a call…
