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Articles on ECHR in Newest Issue of NQHR
The newest issue of our Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR), Volume 37, Issue 1, 2019, includes two articles with a focus on the European Convention: * Pieter Cannoot, ‘The pathologisation of trans* persons in the ECtHR’s case law on legal gender…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new batch of recent academic publications on the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Floris Tan (Leiden University), ‘The Dawn of Article 18 ECHR: A Safeguard Against European Rule of Law Backsliding?‘, Goettingen Journal of…
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New Book on European Consensus and the ECHR
Panos Kapotas of the University of Portsmouth and Vassilis P. Tzevelekos of the University of Liverpool have just published the edited volume ‘Building Consensus on European Consensus – Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights in Europe and Beyond‘ with Cambridge University Press. The…
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New Book on Sexuality and the ECHR
Damian A Gonzalez Salzberg (University of Sheffield) has published a new book with Hart Publishing, entitled ‘Sexuality and Transsexuality Under the European Convention on Human Rights – A Queer Reading of Human Rights Law‘. This is the abstract: ‘This book undertakes a…
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Final ECHR Readings of the Year
Dear ECHR readers, please find below a final batch of ECHR-related academic readings for the end of the year. I wish all of you a very good Christmas and good 2019! * The European Yearbook on Human Rights 2018 (Intersentia) includes an…
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Call for Papers on Loyal Cooperation within the ECHR System
On 10 and 11 May 2019, the International Law and Human Rights Unit of the University of Liverpool will be organising a workshop entitled ‘Loyal Co-operation within the System of the European Convention on Human Rights’. The event welcomes both established and…
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Guest Blog on Grand Chamber Judgment in Navalnyy v Russia
A key judgment on Article 18 ECHR was delivered earlier this month by the Court’s Grand Chamber, Navalnyy v Russia. I am happy to announce a guest commentary on this judgment by Floris Tan, PhD researcher at Leiden University. He is one of…
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Call for Papers 60 Years of the European Court of Human Rights
The University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre has launched a call for papers for its annual Student Human Rights Conference, geared towards postgraduate students. The theme of this 20th edition of the conference, to be held on 29 March 2019, is…
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Guest Blog : Minimalist Compliance in the UK Prisoner Voting Rights Cases
It is my pleasure to introduce another guest blog to you – this time by Andreas von Staden of the University of Hamburg. He has made an insightful analysis of Strasbourg’s prisoner voting rights cases from the perspective of implementation, building on the findings…
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Book on ECHR as Tort Law
Stefan Somers (Free University Brussels) has written a new book on a less often studied aspect of the ECHR system – its use as tort law. The book, published with Intersentia, is entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights as an Instrument…
