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New Danish Judge at the Court
Yesterday, the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) elected Jon Fridrik Kjølbro to become the new judge at the Court in respect of Denmark. Kjølbro’s term will last nine years and will start within three months from now. He will succeed Peer Lorenzen, a longtime…
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Paperback Edition of Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR
I am very happy to announce that a paperback edition of the book I co-edited with Michael Hamilton – Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR. Justice, Politics and Rights – is now available with Cambridge University Press! The hardback edition dates from 2011,…
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Court President Spielmann in BBC Programme HardTalk
The President of the Court, Dean Spielmann, was recently interviewed in the BBC programme HardTalk, known for its tough questioning of guests. This is the excerpt the BBC used to advertise the show: Eight hundred million Europeans’ fundamental rights and liberties…
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Conference on ECHR and the Employment Relation
The University of Strasbourg is organising a European colloquy entitled “The European Convention on Human Rights and the Employment Relation” on 30 and 31 January. The conference will be held at the Maison interuniversitaire des sciences de l’homme – Alsace (Misha). The programme…
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More ECHR Journal Articles
A number of ECHR-related articles have been published in leading international journals in the past few months which I had not yet mentioned here: * Marek Szydło, F’ree Life after Life Imprisonment as a Human Right under the European Convention: European…
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New ECHR Online Reports and Case-Law Comments
Please find an overview below of recent ECHR-related Council of Europe reports and online coments on other blogs relatign to the ECHR, for your convenience. The first is a report adopted by the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the…
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New Book on European Human Rights Culture
Nina-Louisa Arold Lorenz, Xavier Groussot and Gunnar Thor Petursson have published an edited volume with Brill Publishers entitled ‘The European Human Rights Culture – A Paradox of Human Rights Protection in Europe?’. This is the abstract: The European Human Rights Culture…
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Perinçek Judgment on Genocide Denial
It is my pleasure to present a guest post by a familiar author to returning readers of this blog, professor Dirk Voorhoof of Ghent University has written a guest commentary on the judgment in Perinçek v. Switzerland (Appl.no. 27510/08 of 17 December 2013,only…
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Happy 2014 and New ECHR Readings
Dear readers, first of all my very best wishes for the new year 2014! My home base, the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) has started 2014 with a new online look by launching its new website which will keep you posted…
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Christmas Break
This blog and its blogger are going on a Christmas break. I wish all readers a very good and relaxing holiday season with hopefully many opportunities to be together with loved ones and to dream of a Europe and a world in…
