Tuesday 23 August 2011

Summer Harvest of Academic Articles

Please find below the "summer harvest" of academic articles published about the European Convention on Human Rights in the past few months in a wide variety of academic journals, in no particular order:

* M. Milanovic, 'Applicability of the ECHR to British soldiers in Iraq', Cambridge Law Journal (vol. 70, no. 1, 2011).

* S. Briant, 'The requirements of prisoner voting rights: mixed messages from Strasbourg', Cambridge Law Journal (vol. 70, no. 2, 2011).

* W. Wu, 'Interrogational fairness under the European Convention on Human Rights', International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice (vol. 39, no. 1, 2011).

* W. Weiss, 'Human rights in the EU: Rethinking the role of the European Convention of Human Rights after Lisbon', European Constitutional Law Review (vol. 7, no. 1, 2011).

* E. Brems, 'Transitional justice in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights', International Journal of Transitional Justice (vol. 15, no. 2, 2011).

* S. Ast, 'The Gäfgen judgment of the European Court of Human Rights: on the consequences of the threat of torture for criminal proceedings', German Law Journal (vol. 11, no. 12, 2010).

* G. Merkel, 'Retrospective preventive detention in Germany: a comment on the ECHR decision Haidn v. Germany', German Law Journal (vol. 12, no. 3, 2011)

Three articles in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (vol. 9, no. 3, 2011):

* W.A. Schabas, 'Synergy or Fragmentation?: International Criminal Law and the European Convention on Human Rights'.

* O. de Frouville, 'The Influence of the European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law on International Criminal Law of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment'.

* D. Scalia, 'Long-Term Sentences in International Criminal Law: Do They Meet the Standards Set Out by the European Court of Human Rights?'.

Three articles in the Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law (vol. 19, no. 2, 2010/2011):

* M. Volzhskaya, 'Kononov v. Latvia: a partisan and a criminal - the European Court of Human Rights takes a controversial stance on war crimes'.

* K. Brudy, 'S.H. v. Austria: European Court of Human Rights holds that the rights to family life and sexism trump governmental limitations on artificial procreation'.

* T. Rich, 'Sanoma uitgeveers v. Netherlands: the European Court of Human Rights forges new ground for the right of journalists to protect their sources'.