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New ECHR Readings
Please find below our newest selection of academic readings related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Tobias Mortier, ‘The four horsemen of illegitimacy? Unveiling the ECtHR’s interpretation of its legitimate aim requirement through a comparative categorization of…
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New Book on Legal Mobilization of Workers before the ECtHR
Filiz Kahraman (University of Toronto) has just published a new book entitled ‘Labor in Hard Times: Workers’ Legal Mobilization at the European Court of Human Rights‘. It discusses workers’ turn to human rights litigation before the European Court of Human Rights and the…
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The Court’s Annual Report and Opening of the Judicial Year
At the end of January, The European Court of Human Rights organised its opening of the judicial year and published its annual report. At the formal opening, the President of the Court, Mattias Guyomar, in his speech called for judicial unity and solidarity…
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New Book on the ECtHR and Authoritarian Populism
Alain Zysset (University of Glasgow) has just published a new book, entitled ‘Responding to Authoritarian Populism at the European Court of Human Rights: A Calibrated Framework‘. The book focuses on authoritarian populism as a threat to democracy and the rule of law…
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‘We Make It, You Take It’: Fake Dialogue and Genuine Pressure between the States and the European Court of Human Rights
By Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, University of Liverpool The Dialogue The Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) has just published a Preliminary Draft Text for the Outcome Document Containing Elements for a Political Declaration. Most of this document is dedicated to the issues of…
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Article 3 ECHR and Chișinău: What Are the Stakes?
By Natasa Mavronicola, University of Birmingham Article 3 ECHR is under pressure. At a recent informal ministerial conference in Strasbourg on human rights day, 10 December 2025, Ministers from 27 Member States of the Council of Europe prepared a joint statement that is…
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Our Public Resource on the Convention’s Future
As ECHR Blog editorial team, we have created a dedicated page, entitled ‘Future of the Convention‘, on which we keep track of the debates about the future of the Court and the Convention which started with the open letter of nine heads…
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Rolling Call for ECHR Blog Guest Posts
We would like to inform you that the ECHR Blog warmly welcomes guest posts on an ongoing basis. Guest posts can cover topics such as new ECtHR judgments, recent changes relating to the EC(t)HR, and developments at the Council of Europe relating…
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Event on the ECHR and the Chisinau Declaration 2026
On Wednesday 4 February 2026 from 13:00-14:00 CET (12:00-13:00 UK time) the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation of the University of Leicester is organizing an online event with the AGORA Group entitled ‘The ECHR and the Chisinau Declaration 2026: What is…
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New Book on Intellectual Property Before the ECtHR
Elena Izyumenko (University of Amsterdam) and Christophe Geiger (Luiss University) have recently published a new monograph entitled ‘Human Rights and Intellectual Property Before the European Courts: A Case Commentary on the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of…
