• Seminar on ECHR National Counter-Dynamics

    Seminar on ECHR National Counter-Dynamics

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    On 30 and 31 October the universities of Antwerp and Leuven are co-organising a seminar entitled ‘Shifting the Convention System: Counter-dynamics at the National Level’ in Antwerp. According to the organisers, the seminar “aims to map out to what extent criticism on…

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  • News from SIM

    News from SIM

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    Very happy to inform you that as of this week I have been appointed full professor of human rights and director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)! Last week was the formal hand-over ceremony at the occasion of the annual…

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  • New Book on Article 6 ECHR – Fair Trial Rights

    New Book on Article 6 ECHR – Fair Trial Rights

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    Ryan Goss, lecturer in Law at the Australian National University in Canberra, has written a book which critically analyses what is probably the most litigated right in the Convention: Article 6 ECHR, the right to a fair trial. The book, entitled ‘Criminal…

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  • New Book on EU Accession to ECHR

    New Book on EU Accession to ECHR

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    The Council of Europe itself has now published a book on the ever-continuing story of the European Union’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. The book, entitled ‘The accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights’,…

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  • New ECHR Readings

    New ECHR Readings

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    Please find below a number of new readings related to the European Convention on Human Rights from a number of leading international legal journals: * Matthew Scott, ‘Natural Disasters, Climate Change and Non-Refoulement: What Scope for Resisting Expulsion under Articles 3 and…

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  • Lodging Applications in All Official Languages

    Lodging Applications in All Official Languages

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    The Court has finalized the translation of the applicant pages on its website. The information on how to apply is now available in all the official languages of the state parties to the Convention, ranging from Albanian to Ukrainian, and from Catalan…

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  • Two ECHR-related Conferences at Ghent University

    Two ECHR-related Conferences at Ghent University

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    The prolific Human Rights Centre of Ghent University is organising two conferences this Autumn, both of which are to an important degree about the ECHR:   The first is a seminar on Law and Religion on 23 September. The entire afternoon of…

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  • New Book on EU Accession to the ECHR

    New Book on EU Accession to the ECHR

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    In Hart’s Legal Publishing series on Modern Studies in European Law, Vasiliki Kosta, Nikos Skoutaris and Vassilis Tzevelekos have published the edited volume The EU Accession to the ECHR. This wide-ranging volume includes over twenty chapters, a few of which were published…

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  • New ECHR Readings

    New ECHR Readings

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    Here is another selection of recent academic writings on the European Convention of Human Rights. The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 14, no. 3, September 2014) has been published. Its contents include: * Robert Spano, ‘Universality or Diversity…

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  • New Edition of Jacobs White & Ovey ECHR Handbook

    New Edition of Jacobs White & Ovey ECHR Handbook

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    This summer also witnessed the publication of a new version of one of the other widely used handbooks about the ECHR: Jacobs, White & Ovey, The European Convention on Human Rights. This revised sixth edition was edited by Benadette Rainey (Cardiff University),…

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