• Videos on the European Court

    Videos on the European Court

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    The special web page of the website of the European Court on Human Rights that is dedicated to short videos on the Court and its procedures has been further extended. It now also includes new language versions of the film about the…

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  • Article on Baka and the Rule of Law

    Article on Baka and the Rule of Law

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    David Kosař and Katarína Šipulová of Masaryk University have written: ‘The Strasbourg Court Meets Abusive Constitutionalism: Baka v. Hungary and the Rule of Law‘, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law (2017). This is the abstract: ‘The rise of abusive constitutionalism in Central and Eastern…

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  • Report on Selection of Judges

    Report on Selection of Judges

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    The International Commission of Jurists and the Open Society Justice Initiative have published a report on the selection of human rights judges (including at the European Court of Human Rights). The report, entitled ‘Strengthening from Within. Law and Practice in the Selection…

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  • Fifth Edition of Free Online Course on ECHR

    Fifth Edition of Free Online Course on ECHR

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    This coming Monday 23 October, we are launching the fifth edition of our successful and free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR. It is entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies. An introduction into the European Convention on Human Rights‘ and…

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  • New ECHR Readings

    New ECHR Readings

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    Please find below another batch of new academic writings about the European Convention and the European Court: * Elisa Ravasi, Human Rights Protection by the ECtHR and the ECJ – A Comparative Analysis in Light of the Equivalency Doctrine (Brill 2017): ‘In her…

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  • Call for Papers: Workshop at European Court of Human Rights

    Call for Papers: Workshop at European Court of Human Rights

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    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 workshop at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The workshop is entitled: Responding to Legitimacy Challenges:…

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  • Book on Clashing Rights at the European Court

    Book on Clashing Rights at the European Court

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    The excellent colleagues over at the Ghent Human Rights Centre have published a new book on conflicts between rights in Strasbourg. The book, edited by dr Stijn Smet and professor Eva Brems, is entitled When Human Rights Clash at the European Court…

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  • ECHR Papers on SSRN

    ECHR Papers on SSRN

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    A number of authors have recently posted interesting ECHR-related papers (either as drafts or as pre-publication forthcoming articles in journals) in the online repository SSRN. These include: * Mikael Rask Madsen (Copenhagen University), ‘Bolstering Authority by Enhancing Communication: How Checks and Balances and…

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  • Book on ECHR Case Files

    Book on ECHR Case Files

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    In the same theme of last week’s book announcement, another recent book also offers practical insights on how to conduct a case, whether as applicant or third party intervener. Lize Glas (Radboud University Nijmegen) has published ECHR Case Files.The case files of…

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  • New Edition of Taking a Case to the ECtHR

    New Edition of Taking a Case to the ECtHR

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    This Summer, Oxford University Press has released the fourth and revised edition of Taking A Case to the European Court of Human Rights, the much appreciated handbook written by professor and practitioner Philip Leach (Middlesex University and European Human Rights Advocacy Centre).…

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