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Article on EU-ECHR Integration
Professor Piet Eeckhout of University College London has published an interesting article on what the European Union’s accession to the ECHR will mean for the EU. Specifically it reconsiders legal pluralism theories in this respects and argues for an integration of laws…
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New ECHR Readings
The newest edition of SIM Current Contents with articles on human rights (August 2013) is available now. It includes a large number of ECHR-related publications, some very recent, some a bit older. In as far as I have not notified them on…
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New Book on EU Accession to ECHR
The conference proceedings of the 8th congress of the Societas Iuris Publici Europaei (SIPE), held in Lisbon in 2011, have now been published in the book “The Accession of the European Union to the ECHR”. The book, with contributions in English, German…
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Conference on the Future Role of the European Court of Human Rights
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European Convention 60 years in Force Today
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the entry into force of the European Convention on Human Rights on 3 September 1953. This was within three years of the formal signature on 4 November 1950 in Rome – the date usually referred to…
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Winter School on the ECHR and Non-Discrimination in Italy
The University of Bologna is organising a so-called Winter School on the topic “The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR): The Principle of Non-Discrimination” from 13 to 17 January 2014. It will be held at the University’s School of Political Science in…
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Call for Papers on ECHR and Economic Crisis
The Cyprus Human Rights Law Review has issued a call for papers on the theme Recourse to the European Human Rights Law framework in response to the economic crisis which will result in a special issue of the journal. The deadline is…
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New ECHR Publications and New Publisher for Court’s Report Series
Returned from summer break, I am starting off with a short overview of a number of recent publications on the ECHR. The new publications on the ECHR are: * Andrew Drzemczewski, ‘L’élection du juge de l’Union européenne à law Cour européenne des…
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Blog Summer Break
The European Court of Human Rights has updated the case-law page of its website (and I am not talking about the search engine HUDOC here). This page now includes the regularly updated Reports of Judgments and Decisions, a selection which permits outsiders…
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Book on NHRIs with ECHR Chapter
The book edited by Katrien Meeuwissen and Jan Wouters (both at Leuven University), entitled National Human Rights Institutions in Europe Comparative, European and International Perspectives has now been published. It includes my chapter ‘The Court’s Ears and Arms: National Human Rights Institutions and the European…
