• Open Call for Proposals for ECHR Reform

    Open Call for Proposals for ECHR Reform

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  • New ECHR Readings and Comments

    New ECHR Readings and Comments

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    A new issue of the Human Rights quarterly, new posts on blogs and new publications on SSRN yield a number of noteworthy readings on the European Convention and the European Court. I have assembled them here. First off, the newest issue of…

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  • Turkish Version of HUDOC Launched

    Turkish Version of HUDOC Launched

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    Today, HUDOC, the European Court’s case-law search engine, became officially trilingual: after many years of being available only as an English- and French-language portal, it now also has a Turkish (inter)face. This new initiative, supported financially by both Turkey and the Council…

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  • Report on the Independence of the European Court

    Report on the Independence of the European Court

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    The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has put a memorandum online on ‘The need to reinforce the independence of the European Court of Human Rights’. The report, written by rapporteur Boriss…

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  • New ECHR Publications and Comments

    New ECHR Publications and Comments

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  • Vallianatos Judgment on Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Civil Partnerships

    Vallianatos Judgment on Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Civil Partnerships

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  • Recent RTDH Issues

    Recent RTDH Issues

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  • Case Law Comments

    Case Law Comments

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    Here is a small overview of recent online case comments on a few of Strasbourg’s most recent judgments. First off, on the I.B. v. Greece judgment a comment by my new Utrecht colleague Alexandra Timmer. The case related to HIV-based employment discrimination.…

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  • Headway Made in Reducing Backlog of Cases

    Headway Made in Reducing Backlog of Cases

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    To state that the European Court of Human Rights has a backlog of cases has become a mantra and a cliché. It has been used both to pity and to attack the Court. Both to criticise and to advise it. Relatively unnoticed,…

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  • Seminar on the European Court of Human Rights in the Press

    Seminar on the European Court of Human Rights in the Press

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    This coming Thursday, 24 October, a seminar is being organised at the European Court on the press that the Court is getting, a different aspect of the freedom of expression! It will address how the Court and its judgments are portrayed in…

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