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The European Court and International Law
Julian Arato of New York University has published an article on the recourse to international law by the European Court of Human Rights.The article is entitled ‘Constitutional Transformation in the ECtHR: Strasbourg’s Expansive Recourse to External Rules of International Law’ and has…
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New Issue NQHR
The newest issue (vol. 30. no. 2, June 2012) of the SIM-based Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights includes two articles relating to the European Convention on Human Rights. In addition, it also features an overview of new ECHR developments under ‘Human Rights News’.…
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New Articles on ECHR
A number of new academic articles on the European Convention have been published in the last few months. First, the International Journal on Minority and Group Rights includes the article ‘The Strasbourg Court and minority groups: shooting in the dark or a…
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HRW Expresses Concern on Selection Process Russian Judge
It had earlier escaped my attention, but thanks to a Russian colleague, I was notified that the NGO Human Rights Watch wrote a letter in April to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) regarding the selection procedure for candidates from…
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Article on ECtHR Judgments Enforcement in Russia
A group of three Russian authors, Maria Issaeva, Irina Sergeeva, and Maria Suchkova, has posted an article on SSRN on the enforcement of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights. The article, which has appeared in SUR International Journal on…
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Names and CVs of Candidate Judges for Eight Countries
It will be a year of renewal for the Court. In the coming time, the Parliamentary Assemble will elect judges in respect of no less than eight different countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation,…
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Sejdic and Finci – Lack of Bosnian Progress
The Grand Chamber judgment of 2009 in the case of Sejdic and Finci has still not been implemented. In the judgment, on which I reported here, the Court found that the rights of two persons, of Roma and Jewish origin respectively, had…
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Some Progress on EU Accession to the ECHR
It seems that after months of internal talks within the EU some form of consensus has been reached on a common position which will finally allow negotiations with the non-EU ECHR state parties to resume. This is the conclusion of Stian Øby Johansen…
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Functional Analysis of ECJ-ECtHR Relationship
Tommaso Pavone of the University of Chicago has posted a very interesting research paper on the functional relationships between the two main European Courts. The paper, posted on SSRN, is entitled ‘The Past and Future Relationship of the European Court of Justice…
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Report on Interim Measures in Asylum and Expulsion Cases
The European Legal Network on Asylum (ELENA) has published a report on the rule 39 interim measures in the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. As opposed to the quantitative figures on such measures, which can be found in the…