• ECHR Short Course for Professionals in London

    ECHR Short Course for Professionals in London

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  • New Academic and Online ECHR Articles and Comments

    New Academic and Online ECHR Articles and Comments

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    I am happy to announce that my article ‘The Pilot Judgment Procedure at the European Court of Human Rights: Possibilities and Challenges’, which was published in 2009 in the Greek legal journal Nomiko Vima, has now been translated into Ukrainian and re-published…

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  • New ECHR Commentary

    New ECHR Commentary

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    Professor Christoph Grabenwarter of the Vienna University of Business and Economics has published his extensive commentary (600 pages) on the ECHR in English now with Hart Publishing. The book is entitled ‘The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental…

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  • New ECHR-Related Papers on SSRN

    New ECHR-Related Papers on SSRN

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    A number of new papers on the ECHR have recently been put on the Social Science Research Network. Here is a short overview: Normal 0 21 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes;…

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  • German Yearbook of International Law Contributions on ECHR

    German Yearbook of International Law Contributions on ECHR

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    0 The newest edition of the German Yearbook of International Law / Jahrbuch für Internationales Recht (2012) has now been published. Its extensive contents include a whole range of articles about the European Convention on Human Rights and the Court’s case-law. Here…

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  • Protocol 16 ECHR Opened for Signature

    Protocol 16 ECHR Opened for Signature

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    This week, Protocol 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights was opened for signature in Strasbourg. The Protocol which introduces the possibility for the highest national courts to ask the European Court for an advisory opinion is a product of the…

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  • New Judge Elected in Respect of Romania

    New Judge Elected in Respect of Romania

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    Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected a new judge in respect of Romania, Iulia Motoc. She was elected with an overwhelming majority of 132 out of 149 votes cast. Interestingly, one of the two other candidates was no…

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  • Conference in Russia on ECHR Education

    Conference in Russia on ECHR Education

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    In the context of the Dutch-Russian Cultural year, a consortium of Russian organizations will hold a conference dedicated to ECHR Education in Russia and across Europe in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on 21 and 22 October. The organisers are: the Ombudsman in the Sverdlovsk…

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  • New Issue HRLR

    New Issue HRLR

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    The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 13, issue 3, September 2013) has been published. Its contents include the following ECHR-related articles (one of which I have mentioned before): * Stijn Smet, ‘Conflicts between Absolute Rights: A Reply to…

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  • New ECHR Academic Articles

    New ECHR Academic Articles

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    Having returned from an inspiring conference on the effects and implementation of Strasbourg judgments at the University of Göttingen in Germany, here follows a new round of recent ECHR publications in academic journals. The first one is from the latest edition of…

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