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New Joint NGO Statement on Draft Brighton Declaration
Following an earlier open letter, the same group of leading human rights NGOs has published a new joint statement with further comments: ‘Joint NGO input to the ongoing negotiations on the draft Brighton Declaration on the Future of the European Court of…
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Working Paper on ECHR as Living Instrument
George Letsas of University College London has posted a working paper on the evolutive interpretation of the ECHR on SSRN. The paper is entitled ‘The ECHR as a Living Instrument: Its Meaning and its Legitimacy’. This is the abstract: The idea that…
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Seminar on European Court and Doctrine
The International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg is organising a seminar on 10 and 11 May entitled ‘La Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme et la Doctrine’ (The European Court of Human Rights and Doctrine). The seminar will be held in…
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Aksu Grand Chamber Judgment – short guest post
Today the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights issued its judgment in the case of Aksu v. Turkey on stereotypes about Roma in state-sponsored books and dictionaries. As in the earlier Chamber judgment, no violations of the Convention were…
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Conference on Ternovszky Judgment
On 31 May and 1 June the Hague University of Applied Sciences and Bynkershoek Institute’s Research Center for Reproductive Rights are organising a conference on the consequences of the European Court’s judgment in Ternovzsky v. Hungary on the right to give birth…
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NGO Letter and Comments on Brighton Reform Proposals
A group of leading human rights NGOs is calling for more transparency and civil society involvement in the Court’s reform process. The group, consisting of Amnesty International, the AIRE Centre, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), Human Rights Watch, INTERIGHTS, the…
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NGO Statement on European Court Reforms
The Open Society Justice Initiative has put a joint statement of a large number of NGOs online. The text reflects the concerns about the current reforms process of the ECHR. Amongst others it warns against greater latitude for governments to avoid their…
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Article on Margin of Appreciation by Judge Spielmann
Judge Dean Spielman, one of the section presidents at the European Court of Human Rights, has written a working paper in the series of the Centre for European Legal Studies of the University of Cambridge. It deals with the issue of the…
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Liber Amicorum Peter Leuprecht
A Liber Amicorum in honour of Peter Leuprecht, one of the grand old men of the Council of Europe, has been published with Bruylant (featuring his trademark bow tie on the cover). During his long career he was, amongst many other positions,…
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New ECHR Factsheets
A number of new or updated factsheets about the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights have been released in the past two months by the Registry of the Court. These relate to the following themes: * European Union* Collective expulsions*…
