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Guest Post on Big Brother Watch and Others v UK : Snowden’s Redemption or Pyrrhic Victory?
It’s our pleasure to introduce a guest post on one of last month’s key judgments on surveillance through bulk interception of data and on privacy, the Grand Chamber judgment in Big Brother Watch and Others v the United Kingdom: Maximillian Shreeve-McGiffen, LLM…
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Webinar on Conflict Litigation in the Post-Soviet Region
On 21 June, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) of Middlesex University will host a panel discussion titled Conflict on Litigation in the Post-Soviet Region. The panel will focus on the recent interstate judgments of the European Court of Human Rights,…
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New Book on Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights on the Internet
Oreste Pollicino (Bocconi University) has published a book titled Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights on the Internet: A Road Towards Digital Constitutionalism? with Hart Publishing. The book features a foreword by Robert Spano, President of the European Court of Human Rights. Here…
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Book Launch of Law, Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights
The recent book of Rory O’Connell (Ulster University), entitled Law, Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights (on which we reported earlier here), will be officially launched in June. The Transitional Justice Institute at which he is best is organising the…
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New Issue of ECHR Law Review is Out
The new issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (ECHR Law Review) is out. ECHR Law Review is a scholarly journal devoted exclusively to the Convention system. Most publications of this issue are open access. Here is the full…
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Practical Guide to Article 6 ECHR – The Right to a Fair Trial
Päivi Hirvelä and Satu Heikkila have published a new book on what is one of the European Convention’s key rights, with a case-law whose volume is hard to keep up with: Article 6 ECHR. The book, published with Intersentia, is entitled Right to…
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Conference ECHR: Beyond a Treaty
On 27 May, Utrecht University is holding an online conference titled The European Convention on Human Rights: Beyond a Treaty. The conference explores the ECHR, beyond its formal treaty character, as an inspirational and aspirational source of human rights. The conference is…
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Webinar on Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict
On 18 May, the Centre for Turkey Studies’ is hosting a webinar on Limits of Supranational Justice – The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict, with Dr Dilek Kurban, Professor Helen Duffy and Dr Derya Bayir. Here is the description…
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Information Hub on ECHR Implementation for NHRIs
ENNHRI, The European Network of National Human Rights Institutions, has this week launched a dedicated information hub on its website on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Although geared towards NHRIs, the information is of much wider interest and of use…
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Online ERA Seminar on the Newest ECtHR Freedom of Expression Case-law
On 27 and 28 May, the European Law Academy (ERA) is organising another of its online seminars for legal practitioners on the newest case-law of the European Court of Human Rights on freedom of expression. A great opportunity to hear about the…
