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Registration for the European Human Rights Moot Court Competition is Now Open
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Expanding the ECHR Blog – A New Face
Dear readers of the ECHR Blog, this blog is about to expand and renew! As some of you will know, keeping up a blog can be quite a daunting – yet very enjoyable – task. After more than 12.5 years and more…
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Online Conference on 70 Years ECHR
Next week, on Thursday 17 September 2020, the Institute of International and European Union Law of the Law School of Mykolas Romeris University in Lithuania is organizing an international e-Conference on ‘70 years of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental…
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New Session of MOOC on the ECHR
This coming Monday 7 September our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies. An Introduction into the European Convention on Human Rights‘ will kick off again with, due to the pandemic, a big new group of prospective online…
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Guest Post on Court President’s Visit to Turkey
Today a short guest post on the visit of the president Robert Spano of the European Court of Human Rights to Turkey, which has led to a lot of discussion in the Turkish human rights community. The Court’s President amongst others met…
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Special Issue ECHR and Wider International Law
The International Journal of Human Rights has published a special issue (vol. 24, issue 7, 2020) with a focus on ‘the Relationship Between the European Convention on Human Rights and Wider International Law’. Most of the articles were published online earlier on…
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New Book on Civil Justice and European Human Rights Jurisprudence
Andrej Auersperger Matić, of the European Parliament, has published a new book with Cambridge University Press entitled ‘Just Words. The Effectiveness of Civil Justice in European Human Rights Jurisprudence‘. This is the abstract: ‘This book examines the role of the European Court…
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New Edition of German-Language ECHR Handbook by Mark Villiger
The newest, third edition of Mark Villiger’s famous German-language handbook on the ECHR has been published. Judge Villiger is a leading expert on the Convention and one of the Court’s former judges. The book has a special focus on cases relating to…
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The Netherlands Lodges Inter-State Complaint Against Russia
As all those following the Strasbourg system know well, the bulk of the work of the European Court of Human Rights is taken up by dealing with individual complaints. By contrast, Inter-State cases are exceedingly rare. Article 33 ECHR provides that any…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new batch of recent ECHR-related publications: * Aikaterini Tsampi, ‘The new doctrine on misuse of power under Article 18 ECHR: Is it about the system of contre-pouvoirs within the State after all?’, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 38(2), pp.…
