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New Book: Companion to the ECHR
My fellow blog editor Kushtrim Istrefi, together with Zane Ratniece, and Krešimir Kamber, have just yesterday, on the 75th anniversary of the ECHR, published The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights with Brill Publishers. The editors, in many years of…
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75 Years ECHR – Musings on a Birthday
Sometimes a photo can tell more than a thousand words: this black-and-white picture was taken exactly 75 years ago on 4 November 1950 in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. Thirteen states (of which one even no longer exists, the Saar, now part…
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Recording of Online Event on the ECHR in the Age of Backlash
A recording of the online inaugural event of the AGORA Group entitled ‘The Age of Backlash: The European Convention on Human Rights and the New Political Reality’ is now available for those who missed it or want to watch it again. This event…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below another new selection of recent academic publications on the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court. Enjoy reading! * Sebastián Alejandro Rey, ‘Advances and Setbacks in the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights on Serious Violations of…
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Online Event on the ECHR and Armed Conflict
On Wednesday 19 November 2025 from 12:00-13:00 (CET), the Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights is organizing an online research event entitled ‘Human rights in armed conflict after the Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia judgment‘. This online event will focus on…
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Call for Papers: The European Yearbook on Human Rights (EYHR) 2026
The European Yearbook on Human Rights (EYHR) has just launched a Call for Papers for its 2026 edition on topical developments in the field of human rights in and beyond Europe. The year 2026 will mark the anniversary of the International Covenant…
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E.A. v. France: Judicial revictimisation of a survivor of sadistic sexual harassment at work. Ignoring a coercive control context to impute ‘consent’ to the victim
By Margarita S. Ilieva Introduction On 4 September 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) rendered a landmark judgment in E.A. and Association européenne contre les violences faites aux femmes au travail v. France. For the first time, the Court:…
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New Session of the MOOC on ECHR
This week a new session of Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR started! It is still possible to enroll. To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies – An…
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New Book on Property under the ECHR
Henrik Jorem has published the new book The Development of the Right to Property in the European Convention on Human Rights with Brill. It deals not only with the evolving case-law on Article 1 of Protocol 1, but also places this in wider…
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New Book on the Regional Human Rights Courts, Including the ECtHR
Ahmed Almutawa (Durham University) and Konstantinos D. Magliveras (University of the Aegean) have just pubslished a new edited book entitled ‘A Comparison of the European, Inter-American, African and Arab Human Rights Courts: Institutional Aspects‘. The book offers a comparative analysis of the…
