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The Draft Copenhagen Declaration – Comment Series I
The ever-ongoing discussions about the Strasbourg Convention system have reached a new stage with the recent publication of a controversial draft Copenhagen Declaration by the current Danish chairmanship of the Council of Europe. In a special cooperation with the Strasbourg Observers blog,…
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Book on Core Socio-Economic Rights and the ECHR
Dr Ingrid Leijten (Leiden University) has published a new book based on her PhD dissertation with Cambridge University Press. It is entitled Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. This is the abstract: ‘Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European…
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Looking Back and Ahead for the Court
The opening of the judicial year (at the end of last month) always marks a moment of stock-taking for the European Court of Human Rights. In his main speech, the President of the Court, judge Guido Raimondi, expressed both optimism and caution.…
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Reminder – Call for Papers for Workshop at the Court
A reminder about a unique opportunity for academic researchers to present their work at the European Court itself: On 21 September 2018, a group of leading academic centres in Europe, including our own Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), is co-organising a…
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Conference on Margin of Appreciation at Court
The Centre for Law and Public Affairs (CeLAPA) and the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague are organising a seminar at the premises of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Thursday 15 February. The seminar is entitled…
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New ECHR Case-Law Factsheets
This week the Court has put online five new case-law factsheets. They are the newest additions to a growing corpus of more than sixty factsheets available on the Court’s website. They provide quick overviews of core case-law on a large range of…
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New ECHR Publications
Please find below a number of recent publications related to the European Convention and the European Court: * Our own Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 35, no. 4 (2017) includes: Julia Wojnowska-Radzinska (Adam Mickiewicz University), ‘The access to secret evidence in…
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New Edition of Van Dijk and Van Hoof Handbook on the ECHR
Dear readers, my very best wishes for the new year 2018 to all of you! It is my great pleasure to announce the publication of the newest (fifth) edition of the famous handbook on the ECHR of Van Dijk and Van Hoof…
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New Book on ECHR and Judicial Activism and Passivism
Professor Adam Wiśniewski of the University of Gdansk has published a book on the stance and position of the European Court in Strasbourg. The book, entitled The European Court of Human Rights. Between Judicial Activism and Passivism, has been published with Gdansk…
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New Book on the Use of Force and Article 2 ECHR
Dr Hannah Russell of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has just published a new book on the right to life with Hart Publishing, entitled ‘The Use of Force and Article 2 of the ECHR in Light of European Conflicts‘. This is…
