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Conference on Principled Resistance Against European Court Judgments
Professor Marten Breuer of the Law School of the University of Konstanz in Southern Germany is organising a conference entitled “Principled Resistance against ECtHR Judgments – a New Paradigm?”. It will take place in the town hall of Konstanz on 1 and…
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The Court in 2016: Overview
At his annual press conference today, the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Guido Raimondi, presented an overview of the Court’s work over the past year. The most important issues: in 2016, for the first time after a two-year decrease,…
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New Judges in respect of the Netherlands and Hungary
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected two new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. For the Netherlands, judge Jolien Schukking was elected. Judge Schukking was preferred over two other similarly very well-qualified Dutch ECHR experts, professors…
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Guest Post on Grand Chamber Judgment in Hutchinson
As the first post of the new year on the ECHR Blog, it is my pleasure to introduce a guest post by Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou of the University of Liverpool on this week’s Grand Chamber judgment on life sentences without parole in the…
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End of Year ECHR Readings
As the year wraps up, please find a final selection of ECHR-related readings of 2016. I wish all the readers of this blog a good 2017! * Stijn Smet, Resolving Conflicts between Human Rights. The Judge’s Dilemma (Routledge Publishers 2016): Under the…
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Conference on the European Court and Media Freedom
On 24 March 2017, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, supported by the Council of Europe, will organsie a conference on media freedom in Strasbourg. The conference, entitled “Promoting dialogue between the ECtHR and the media freedom community”. will be…
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MHB v Hungary Judgment on Access to Information
It is my pleasure to introduce a guest post in the form of a commentary by professor Renata Uitz of Central European University. She has written a commentary on the recent case of Magyar Helsinki Bizottság v. Hungary, on which the European Court…
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Conference on ECHR and Regional Implementation Challenges
On 8 and 9 December, the Council of Europe, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania, and the European Humanities University are co-organising a conference entitled ‘Regional Challenges in Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights‘. The conference will take place…
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European Court Awarded Treaties of Nijmegen Medal
Today, the European Court of Human Rights is being awarded the Treaties of Nijmegen Medal 2016. The medal is awarded every two years to key actors committed to European development. It commemorates the signing of a number of treaties known as the Peace…
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New Book on ECHR and Human Rights Theory
Long past are the days when the ECHR was only of interest to legal scholars. A recent book by researcher Alain Zysset, a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, with both a background in international politics…
