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New Book on EU Accession to ECHR
After a range of articles on the issue, a monograph has now been published on the EU’s forthcoming accession to the ECHR. The book, written by Paul Gragl of the City University of London, is entitled ‘The Accession of the European Union…
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My New Article on Freedom of Expression and ECHR & ICCPR
I have just posted on SSRN my contribution entitled ‘Tacit Citing – The Scarcity of Judicial Dialogue between the Global and the Regional Human Rights Mechanisms in Freedom of Expression Cases’ for the book: Tarlach McGonagle and Yvonne Donders (eds.), The United…
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Conference on Effects and Implementation of ECtHR Judgments
On 20 and 21 September a large conference entitled ‘Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights – Effects and Implementation’ is organised at the Institute of International Law at Goettingen University in Germany. The convenors are Mark Villiger, section president at…
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New Handbook on ECHR and EU Law on Asylum, Borders and Immigration
A cooperative project between the European Court of Human Rights and the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union has resulted in a Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration. It was presented today in Strasbourg. Here are the relevant parts…
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New ECHR Publications
An update on new publications related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Barbara Mikołajczyk, ‘Is the ECHR ready for global ageing?’, International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 17, no. 4 (2013). * N. Mavronicola and F. Messineo, ‘Relatively…
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European Yearbook on Human Rights
I think I have not yet notified readers of the ECHR-related contents of the 2012 volume of the European Yearbook on Human Rights. Here they are (full table of contents here): * Tatjana CARDONA, Elisabeth HANDL-PETZ, Eva LECHNER and Brigitte OHMS, ‘ECtHR…
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Committee of Ministers Annual Report on Supervising Implementation
I had not highlighted it here yet, but the Committee of Ministers published, in April, its Annual Report on its supervision of the execution of the Court’s judgments and decisions. As the report shows, several trends are positive: less judgments on repetitive…
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Blog Anniversary – 5 Years!
Yesterday, 26 May, it was exactly five years ago that I started this blog on the European Convention of Human Rights. Looking back at the first post, I see that I had a rather grand aim of being “a portal to information on…
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Protocol 15 to the ECHR Adopted
Last week, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the new Protocol 15 to the European Convention of Human Rights. It will be be opened for signature at the end of June and will enter into force three months…
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Book on Constitutional Relevance of the ECHR
Giorgio Repetto has just published an edited volume with Intersentia entitled ‘The Constitutional Relevance of the ECHR in Domestic and European Law. An Italian Perspective’. This is the abstract: In recent years the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) gained unexpected relevance…
