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New Edition of ECHR Handbook Harris Warbrick and O’Boyle
As announced last week in a guest post, the newest, third edition of the classic Harris, O’Boyle and Warbrick, Law of the European Convention of Human Rights has been published with OUP by Harris, O’Boyle, Bates, and Buckley. It is always an…
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Fact Sheet on Gender Identity Issues Updated
The Court has put online a fully updated factsheet on gender identity issues, with the subtitle ‘from the Rees case to the Christine Goodwin case’ referring to the gradual shift over the years – often used in teaching about the Convention – in…
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Putting the Potential UK Withdrawal from the ECHR into Perspective
Nowhere in Europe does the discussion about the legitimacy (beyond government circles, which in any state party might be unhappy with the Court’s judgments at times) of the Strasbourg system seem to be so intense as in the United Kingdom. It is…
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New Book on Equality in European Human Rights Law
Charilaos Nikolaidis has published a new book on equality with Routledge. It is entitled ‘The Right to Equality in European Human Rights Law. The Quest for Substance in the Jurisprudence of the European Courts’. This is the abstract: A right to equality…
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New ECHR Readings
With the Court issuing its newest judgment today in a group of cases on British prisoner voting rights (violation found but judgment itself as sufficient just satisfaction, so no monetary award) the very short Strasbourg summer hiatus in issuing judgments – less…
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Violation of Religion Rights in Hungary Judgment
Back from the summer break, I am starting off with guest post of one of the regular contributors to the ECHR blog, professor Renáta Uitz of Central European University. She has written an extensive commentary to shed light on the Court’s religious…
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Summer Break
This blog is taking a summer break. No posting in the weeks to come. I will be back in August and wish all of you who have it too a very good summer!
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below an overview of recent and less recent (but not yet mentioned on this blog) literature on the European Convention and the European Court of Human Rights: * N. Bratza, ‘Living instrument or dead letter – the future of the…
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Election of Judges and Independence of the European Court of Human Rights
To increase the quality and precision of its work in the election of new judges to the Court, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has created a special committee. This committee will consist of twenty members and meet behind closed…
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Six New ECHR Case-Law Fact Sheets
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights has added six new factsheets to its growing collection (now around fifty) of accessible, thematic overviews of its own jurisprudence. The full list of factsheets can be found here, with some factsheets being available…
