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Book Launch on ECHR and Sexual Orientation Discrimination
Next month, the new book of Paul Johnson (University of York) entitled ‘Going to Strasbourg. An Oral History of Sexual Orientation Discrimination and the European Convention on Human Rights‘ (Oxford University Press, just published this month), will be launched at a special…
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New ECHR Readings
More new ECHR readings, as the start of the academic and work year is nearing: The June issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Volume 16, Issue 2, 2016) includes: *Sandra Fredman, ‘Emerging from the Shadows: Substantive Equality and Article 14 of…
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New Book on Non-Refoulement under ECHR and CAT
In this quiet Summer time, the topic of forced migration remains topical as ever. Thus, the publication of a new book on non-refoulement is very welcome. Dr Eman Hamdan (University of Geneva) has written ‘The Principle of Non-Refoulement under the ECHR and…
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New Book on Criticism of the Court
Patricia Popelier, Sarah Lambrecht, and Koen Lemmens have just published an edited volume entitled ‘Criticism of the European Court of Human Rights. Shifting the Convention system: Counter-Dynamics and the National and EU Level.’ The book was published in Intersentia’s law and Cosmopolitan…
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New Court Videos
The Registry has put new training videos in its series ‘COURTalks-disCOURs‘ online. The videos were made together with the Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals Programme (HELP) of the Council of Europe. The videos of around 25 minutes give an overrview of…
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Handbook on European Law on Access to Justice
After an early Summer break, I am back at posting on here. Europe’s institutions may be under a lot of pressure, but at least cooperation between the European guardians of human rights is still working. The EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency and the…
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Court’s Annual Overview Series
The European Court of Human Rights has now made available in print, through Wolf Legal Publishers, its new series ‘Overview of the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights’. This yearly reflection of the Court’s jurisprudence – a reprint from the…
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The ECHR and the UK – The Tragedy in the Form of Comedy
In the past two weeks, with the United Kingdom’s referendum on a potential Brexit approaching, the UK’s Government has been speaking with an increasingly incoherent number of voices. Home Secretary Theresa May favours the UK remaining in the European Union but leaving…
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The Russian Response to the Prisoner Voting Judgment
The voting rights of prisoners under the European Convention on Human Rights continue to be the object of debate in some countries – whereas in others it is not an issue at all, one may add. In this context, much attention usually…
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Conference on Prisoner Voting Rights and the ECHR
The University of Liverpool, in cooperation with the Council of Europe and the PluriCourts project, is organising a two day workshop on one of the most contested ECHR-related issues in the UK: ‘Challenges to Implementing the Judgments of the European Court of…
