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New Book on ‘Hard Power’ and the ECHR
Dr Peter Kempees has published the new book “Hard Power” and the European Convention on Human Rights with Brill Publishers. I had the pleasure of being on the reading committee of the dissertation of dr Kempees on which this book is based.…
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Summer School “ECHR in Times of Crises”
TU Dresden and Leipzig University are organising the 2nd International Summer School “Human Rights in Theory and Practice” from September 5th to 10th, 2021 in Dresden. The Summer School will focus on the topic of “The European Convention on Human Rights in Times of Crises” and…
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Guest Post: Admission of Evidence Obtained Through Ill-treatment of a Third Party by Private Individuals: the Case of Ćwik v. Poland
By Matteo Mastracci, PhD researcher at Koç University On 5 November 2020, the European Court of Human Rights issued its judgment in the case of Ćwik v. Poland. The question, which until now had never been addressed by the Court, was whether…
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New Book on Law, Democracy and the ECtHR
Rory O’Connell (Ulster University) has published a new monograph entitled Law, Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights with Cambridge University Press. O’Connell is an esteemed colleague over at the Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast – where I had the pleasure of…
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New Book on Positive Duties to Mobilise Criminal Law under the ECHR
Laurens Lavrysen (Ghent University) and Natasa Mavronicola (Birmingham University) have co-edited the new book Coercive Human Rights.Positive Duties to Mobilise the Criminal Law under the ECHR with Hart Publishing. This is the abstract: ‘Traditionally, human rights have protected those facing the sharp edge…
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EYHR Call for Contributions: Human Rights in Times of a Pandemic
The European Yearbook on Human Rights (EYHR) has issued a call for contributions for 2021 with a special focus on Human Rights in Times of a Pandemic. Below is the call for contributions as presented by the EYHR: Large parts of 2020…
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Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection Now in Paperback
It is my pleasure to announce that the book professor Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir (University of Iceland) and myself (Utrecht University) co-edited a few years ago, Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection. RethinkingRelations between the ECHR, EU, and National Legal Orders, has now…
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70 Years ECHR Today
Today, it is exactly 70 years ago that a small group of European states adopted, after relatively fast negotiations, a very special document that is now shortly known as the ECHR. In the photo, one can see the Ministers sitting together in…
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Guest Post: ‘Hate Speech’ Jurisprudence of the ECtHR through a Qualitative and Quantitative Lens
By Jacob Mchangama, Director, Justitia, Denmark and Natalie Alkiviadou, Senior Research Fellow, Justitia, Denmark The point at which free speech ends and hate speech begins has become a burning issue in an age of social media, where billions of people have access to share…
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Online Conference: The European Convention on Human Rights at 70
On 4 November 2020, KU Leuven in cooperation with AHRI is organizing an online conference entitled The European Convention on Human Rights at 70: Achievements, Challenges and Interactions with Legal Orders. The conference will have four panels. The first one will look…
