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Secretary General’s Article 52 ECHR Report on Poland
Earlier this week, the Council of Europe’s Secretary, Marija Pejčinović Burić, published her report on Poland’s (non-)implementation of a number of key judgments of the Court on the right to a fair trial in Poland, part of the wider debates about the rule…
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Call for Contributions: European Yearbook on Human Rights 2023
The European Yearbook on Human Rights has issued a call for contributions for its 2023 issue. The 2023 issue has a special focus on ‘Rethinking Human Rights’. The Yearbook publishes mostly about the European Convention on Human Rights and the Council of…
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New Book on Cyprus at the European Court of Human Rights
Costas Paraskeva and Eleni Meleagrou have published a new book entitled Cyprus at the European Court of Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal of the Court’s Jurisprudence on the Rights to Property and Home in the Context of Displacement (with Brill | Nijhoff).…
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Interview with Robert Spano on the UK and the ECtHR
Legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg recently interviewed the former president of the European Court of Human Rights, Robert Spano. In the interview for the BBC, Robert Spano talks about the relationship between the Court and the United Kingdom, the UK Bill of Rights…
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New Book on Human Rights Disputes in Sport before the ECtHR
Daniel Rietiker (senior lawyer at the ECtHR) has just published a new book entitled Defending athletes, players, clubs and fans: Manual for human rights education and litigation in sport, in particular before the European Court of Human Rights. Here is a brief summary:…
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Call for Abstracts on Populism, Authoritarianism and the ECtHR
The PluriCourts Centre at the University of Oslo has issued a call for abstracts. It relates to an upcoming workshop with the title ‘The European Court of Human Rights Facing Populism and Authoritarianism: Time for System Change?’ which will take place on…
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New Book on the ECHR Regime and Immigration and Minority Policies
Dia Anagnostou (Associate Professor, Panteion University of Social Sciences) has just published a new book entitled The European Convention of Human Rights Regime: Reform of Immigration and Minority Policies from Afar. Here is the abstract: ‘Prompted by an unprecedented rise of litigation since the…
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New Book on Fair Trial Rules of Evidence in ECtHR Case-Law
Jurkka Jämsä (Vaasa Court of Appeal, Finland) has published the monograph Fair Trial Rules of Evidence. The Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights with Routledge. It is a very structured practice-oriented guide on the law of evidence and the…
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New Thematic Factsheet on the Reopening of Domestic Judicial Proceedings Following the European Court’s Judgments
Last week, the Council of Europe’s Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has published a new thematic factsheet on the reopening of domestic judicial proceedings following judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Here…
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CoE Guidelines on Preventing and Remedying ECHR Violations
We had not yet reported on it, but at the end of last month, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted guidelines to assist themselves, the 46 Council of Europe member states, in their efforts to comply with their obligations…
