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ECHR Articles in Newest HRLR
The September 2020 issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 20, issue 3) has now been put online. These are the ECHR-related articles: * Mathieu Leloup, ‘The Concept of Structural Human Rights in the European Convention on Human Rights’: ‘This article…
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Online Conference on Covid-19 and the European Convention on Human Rights
On 16 and 17 October 2020 there will be an online conference on Covid-19 and the European Convention on Human Rights. Speakers include a long list of sitting and former judges of the European Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe…
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Guest Post: Negotiations on EU Accession to the ECHR Restart after Five Years: Between Unlikely and Doable
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of recent reading on the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Jonathan Collinson, ‘Making the best interests of the child a substantive human right at the centre of national level expulsion decisions’, Netherlands Quarterly…
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Strasbourg Court issues interim measures against Turkey regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Since 27 September 2020, the long-frozen conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan flared up again and has taken a high death toll. Last week, the European Court of Human Rights issued an interim measure against Azerbaijan in a case lodged by Armenia. The…
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International Online Conference on Youth, Climate Change and the European Court of Human Rights
The University of Tampere in Finland, together with the Finnish Human Rights Centre, is organising an international conference on Youth, Climate Change and the European Court of Human Rights on Friday 27 November from 14:00 to 17:00 (EET = UTC +2 time zone). Fitting to the…
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New Book on the European, Inter-American and African Human Rights Courts
A new book by professor Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) traces and evaluates the histories and common threads running through the work of the world’s three regional human rights courts. This comparative volume, written in French, and published by A.…
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Submitting Guest Posts to the ECHR Blog
Dear ECHR Blog readers, as part of our announced renewal and expansion, we have now added a new item to the blog. For many years, this blog has received guest posts of eminent academic colleagues. We are now more explicitly inviting fellow academics to…
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Online (and in-Person) Conference on Human Rights and Environmental Protection and the ECHR
On 5 October 2020, the European Court of Human Rights is hosting on its premises a conference on Human Rights and Environmental Protection. The conference will also be streamed online. The registration is open until 25 September. The full programme can be accessed here. Below…
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New Edition of the Book Freedom of Expression and the Internet by Benedek and Kettemann
Wolfgang Benedek and Matthias C. Kettemann have just published the second edition of the book Freedom of Expression and the Internet (Council of Europe). The second edition comes at a time when most of us express, receive, engage with, and create ideas…
