tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922539512577044322024-03-18T10:36:31.529+01:00ECHR BLOGECHR BLOG - about the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental FreedomsAntoine Buysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10338092996739251442noreply@blogger.comBlogger1334125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-40221479715041903252024-03-15T12:53:00.002+01:002024-03-15T12:57:55.684+01:00Summer School on the Council of Europe <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhACfWuuIAggVS6tFg6lymx8ZouJWvtjUQu2WG8AlBTMsSbHZbosQYQx4JzeybDMrN_5I5uy9Jqhayp5Kj1PTApqGZG26Sx3YV4d2GFWzBIahsoZa0qKCmIvIVHNlwkRo6a03_5czZ4ZraKgWRXyuE1CSneRqp9XPi9A8fNI4gwjNa6WcSPJbHiOb0WHfU/s1000/GItGH8uXwAAc0l5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="1000" height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhACfWuuIAggVS6tFg6lymx8ZouJWvtjUQu2WG8AlBTMsSbHZbosQYQx4JzeybDMrN_5I5uy9Jqhayp5Kj1PTApqGZG26Sx3YV4d2GFWzBIahsoZa0qKCmIvIVHNlwkRo6a03_5czZ4ZraKgWRXyuE1CSneRqp9XPi9A8fNI4gwjNa6WcSPJbHiOb0WHfU/w200-h71/GItGH8uXwAAc0l5.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The School of Law and Social Justice of the University of Liverpool will be organizing its second <a href="https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/research/international-law-and-human-rights-unit/summer-school-2024/">summer school</a> on the Law of the Council of Europe. It will take place between 8-19 July 2024 and is useful for postgraduate students, post-doctoral researchers, early career scholars and practitioners interested in the law of the Council of Europe, human rights, the rule of law and democracy. <span style="background-color: white;">The lecturers include researchers as well as practitioners. This is the abstract of the contents:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">''</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.021875px; text-align: left;">On 5 May 1949, the Statute of the Council of Europe was signed in London establishing the organisation. For the last 75 years, Europe has been united in the protection of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. Today, humankind faces new challenges that differ from the ones that were prevailing in Europe in the spring of 1949. Our Summer School will explore two key strands of themes. First, the Summer School will reflect on certain key modern-day challenges, discussing what role the Council of Europe can play in the era of digital revolution and new technologies. These new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and neurotechnology, offer opportunities and may even impact positively human rights. But they can also endanger the enjoyment of fundamental human rights. How well-equipped is the Council of Europe and human rights law more generally to offer protection from these emerging threats? Second, the Summer School will assess the Council of Europe as a sophisticated and multipart system for the protection of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. To that end, the Summer School will consider how different bodies of the Council of Europe contribute to the fundamental aims of the organisation, but also the history and the effectiveness of the Council of Europe as a whole and of some of its mechanisms, treaties and bodies, such as the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the Social Rights Committee, the Venice Commission, the European Court of Human Rights and many others.''</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.021875px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.021875px; text-align: left;">The deadline for applications is 14 April 2024.</span></div></span><p></p>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-31415813996386897052024-03-14T12:53:00.005+01:002024-03-14T12:54:50.748+01:00New Book on the European Court and its Two Regional Siblings<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQVe0lxulOOqe-GHP1TGhfD1Ch0wxwIJAuseuzCZ94au3nFDnw44GVuKp3o9HAfZPbXT6YWLHz0OOE7qQ5IuVUC7jb0WowjfnwQXh0gfD0euIpzAvhJnJrEoyKmf1sbjxsGGf-9eigiX8hf-D9cDsdhKm8zb9NkYizfwuTrjEg0xyuhUkVhbuD5tjarACd/s272/LBL%20book.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQVe0lxulOOqe-GHP1TGhfD1Ch0wxwIJAuseuzCZ94au3nFDnw44GVuKp3o9HAfZPbXT6YWLHz0OOE7qQ5IuVUC7jb0WowjfnwQXh0gfD0euIpzAvhJnJrEoyKmf1sbjxsGGf-9eigiX8hf-D9cDsdhKm8zb9NkYizfwuTrjEg0xyuhUkVhbuD5tjarACd/w132-h200/LBL%20book.jpg" width="132" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen of the Sorbonne University in France has published an English-language version of her earlier comparative work in French on the three regional human rights courts. The book, entitled <i><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-3-regional-human-rights-courts-in-context-9780192871459?prevNumResPerPage=100&prevSortField=7&resultsPerPage=100&sortField=7&facet_narrowbypubdate_facet=Next%203%20months&lang=de&cc=ie">The 3 Regional Human Rights Courts in Context - Justice That Cannot Be Taken for Granted</a></i>, was just published with Oxford University Press and of course includes the European Court of Human Rights as one of the three courts analysed. This is the abstract:</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">'At specific moments in the history of Africa, Europe, and Latin America, each region decided to create supranational jurisdictions to protect human rights. These are, in chronological order, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. While each has been the subject of important, dedicated monographs, no major study has analysed both the institutional and jurisprudential issues of all three regional systems.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The 3 Regional Human Rights Courts in Context: Justice That Cannot Be Taken for Granted is the first book to offer a comprehensive comparison of the three systems. Rather than merely juxtaposing analogous features, the book considers how the three courts operate as parts of a greater, integrated whole. Similarities and differences between the courts are illuminated alongside historical, political, and sociological insights, in addition to the book's primary legal focus.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Close analysis of the processes by which the courts came into being makes it clear that, regardless of distinct political, cultural, or other variances, states on each of the three continents have chafed against international supervision. The book also debunks the common belief that, after the Second World War, the thrust of human rights initiatives was so powerful that states no longer need to discuss them. Justice cannot be taken for granted—a position further supported by the book's analysis of how each court has evolved and how their rulings have been implemented.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen's dynamism and multidisciplinary approach makes it possible to truly understand the stakes behind the institutional and jurisprudential developments of the three regional human rights courts. This is a book that will interest not only legal practitioners but also specialists in international relations, human rights, and countless other fields.'</span></p>Antoine Buysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10338092996739251442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-46492068051803389062024-03-08T12:09:00.002+01:002024-03-08T12:09:28.014+01:00Up in the Trees - Interim Measures and Environmental Protesters<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKEMvUV-uThxpw4hmGWm_FJcC6ye69yEq2SBRAuQcR3w2CmqK0tgDmLDXKwYh-8zc-uv_LKWMz2jCgZZst5bWbh6DPguPkH7Fa_n-8EF1T-dNJCvBOob3aMyCOkPKrxnv-sG_R8uLrWomAhfMzZ_q0Xn9RuSLbUMOkL7Bf9NyMhcxQ8hZ8kKRKPdA_tq-/s848/ecureuil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="848" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKEMvUV-uThxpw4hmGWm_FJcC6ye69yEq2SBRAuQcR3w2CmqK0tgDmLDXKwYh-8zc-uv_LKWMz2jCgZZst5bWbh6DPguPkH7Fa_n-8EF1T-dNJCvBOob3aMyCOkPKrxnv-sG_R8uLrWomAhfMzZ_q0Xn9RuSLbUMOkL7Bf9NyMhcxQ8hZ8kKRKPdA_tq-/w200-h118/ecureuil.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">A rather unusual request to Strasbourg: earlier this week, the European Court of Human Rights rejected a request for interim measures by a group of environmental protesters in France. The protesting people, known as <i>écureuils</i> (squirrels), have been up, at a height of 15 metres, in the trees in the Tarn region of France. They are trying to halt the felling of trees on the trajectory of a future motorway that would cross a stretch of forest land. In their application, in the case of <i>Viard-Seifert and Others v. France</i> (application no. 6024/24) they asked to Court as an interim measure to securing food and water supplies for them - currently halted by the police who are attempting to get the protesters down - as well as their safety. According to the Court's <a href="https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre-press?i=003-7893886-10981273">press release</a>:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">'Relying in particular on Article 3 of the Convention, they complained of the police measures being used to force them down from the trees. Their main argument was that the fact of depriving them of water, food and sleep amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment. They alleged there was an imminent risk of irreparable harm to their lives and health.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">On 29 February 2024 the applicants had lodged an application with the European Court of Human Rights under Rule 39 of its Rules of Court, requesting the adoption of a series of measures aimed, in particular, at securing their supply of food and water and ensuring their safety.'</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">After a quick back and forth between the parties, the Court's duty judge decided not to indicate interim measures. The press release does not indicate the exact reasoning, but the threshold criterion for interim measures is whether there would be "irreparable harm" to the rights under the ECHR. The choice for the protesters to stay in the trees or come down may have played a role there.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The activists have also <a href="https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/tarn/albi/autoroute-a69-castres-toulouse-le-rapporteur-special-de-l-onu-sur-les-defenseurs-de-l-environnement-se-rend-dans-le-tarn-2928765.html">alerted</a> the special rapporteur on environmental human rights defenders under the Aarhus Convention, Michael Forst, to the issue. For more background info on the situation, see also this news <a href="https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/tarn/albi/autoroute-a69-castres-toulouse-7-opposants-toujours-sur-site-des-arbres-abattus-et-de-nouvelles-actions-2928543.html">release</a>. According to local media, several 'squirrels' are still up in the trees.</span></div>Antoine Buysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10338092996739251442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-87823704713627262022024-02-28T11:32:00.009+01:002024-02-28T11:33:35.515+01:00Call for Abstracts Workshop 75 Years Council of Europe<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgb8by7QU3SIwOWDw6-jthRsjfes8rQ_slAMrKoHSrdjDhMVYfmhppsoizh4fUpMXGf3-XbwbRecQuJW6jlxZ9GLRk9HEv_tWOyPVOQXeHhUJt_F_tNJH16so8ZT-2ThnddLi0J5obSkDEWFTR7frrT4lBqi9SGAAX-Zcwf6GtA9c7twlSe2imWUhOCtrm/s275/grenoble.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgb8by7QU3SIwOWDw6-jthRsjfes8rQ_slAMrKoHSrdjDhMVYfmhppsoizh4fUpMXGf3-XbwbRecQuJW6jlxZ9GLRk9HEv_tWOyPVOQXeHhUJt_F_tNJH16so8ZT-2ThnddLi0J5obSkDEWFTR7frrT4lBqi9SGAAX-Zcwf6GtA9c7twlSe2imWUhOCtrm/w200-h133/grenoble.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The University of Grenoble-Alpes is organising the workshop '</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The Council of Europe: How to move forward after 75 years? The past, present and future of an international organisation in its seventies'</span></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> in December 2024, with </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Anca Ailinca as convener</span></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">. It has issued a call for abstracts, with 24 April 2024 as a deadline. The event will be hybrid: on-site and online, in English and French. Please find al information below:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><b>'</b>The Council of Europe will celebrate its 75th anniversary on 5 May 2024. Founded in 1949 as a response to the Second World War, it embodies the promotion and protection of European values, namely "human rights, democracy and the rule of law". The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) are its most remarkable and best-known achievements. So much so that the Council of Europe is often reduced to this essential but reductive aspect. In fact, countless other standards have been adopted under the auspices of this organisation. These standards, which are intended to permeate national legal systems, set the European standards for a common legal order.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">In the 75 years of its existence, the Council of Europe has had to adapt to major changes in the political and geopolitical context in which it operates. The creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), followed by the European Economic Community and the European Union, has led it to reflect, with varying degrees of success, on its specific role within the European architecture. The dissolution of the USSR led to the swift, if not hasty, integration of a large number of Central and Eastern European countries willing to embark on a process of democratisation that is still ongoing. The massive enlargement of the Council of Europe has had many far-reaching consequences for its functioning and working methods. It has also had an impact on the European Court of Human Rights, which has seen a huge increase in the number of cases brought before it. The resurgence of populism, authoritarianism and nationalism since the 2010s has once again forced the Council of Europe to assess the effectiveness of its actions. The challenge is all the greater given the organisation's limited budget. This reflects a political disengagement on the part of its member states, which can also be seen in the fact that some of them no longer adhere to all European values and ostensibly refuse to implement Council of Europe standards, including the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights. In this context, the Council of Europe has embarked on a major reform process, which is still ongoing. The armed aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine has once again changed the geopolitical context in Europe to such an extent that a fourth Summit of the Council of Europe was held in Reykjavik (Iceland) in May 2023.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">To date, the Council of Europe has not been able to overcome the many challenges that have tested its effectiveness and even its legitimacy. This may be explained by the Committee of Ministers’ attachment to consensus, even though member states are often divided. Another explanation may be the perhaps disproportionate weight given to geopolitical considerations. All this leads to a political timidity that can sometimes give the impression that member states rely too much on the European Court of Human Rights. However, the Court is not able to overcome structural challenges on its own. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The aim of the workshop is to make a critical assessment of the Council of Europe's achievements and working methods, to analyse the main challenges it faces and to outline ways of addressing them. It is important to note that the focus of the event will not be on the ECHR and the ECtHR, although the topic will be on the agenda.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Contributions can come from any discipline. They may take a general, cross-disciplinary approach or focus on a particular institution, country or issue. Proposals from young scholars (PhD students and post-doctoral researchers), as well as non-academic contributions and those based on empirical studies are welcome. Proposals that deal exclusively with the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, without placing the subject in the wider context of the Council of Europe, will not be considered. We invite original proposals, as we aim to explore publication options, after peer review.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">By way of illustration, and without claiming to be exhaustive, contributions may cover the following topics:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">General and institutional aspects</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- How constructive are relations between different organs of the Council of Europe; how can synergies be strengthened?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- The reform of the Council of Europe: an appropriate quest for efficiency?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- Should the Council of Europe set more focused priorities? Too many partial agreements?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- The Venice Commission, the Commissioner for Human Rights or the monitoring bodies: how to increase their effectiveness?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- How can the execution of judgements of the European Court of Human Rights be improved?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- Is the Council of Europe a credible player in the European institutional architecture?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Substantive aspects</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">- The vices and virtues of the Council of Europe’s intergovernmental standard-setting work (e.g. choice </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">of topics, working methods, links with the European Union's standard-setting work)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- The European Social Charter and the Revised Social Charter: is the Turin Process sufficient?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">- The Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">(Lanzarote Convention)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- How can torture, and inhumane and degrading treatment be effectively prohibited in practice?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- What role can the Council of Europe play in environmental protection?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- What is the added value of the Council of Europe in the field of Artificial Intelligence?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- How to overcome political reticence on issues such as migrants’ rights or LGBTQI+?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- Can the Council of Europe protect political prisoners, including those in Russia and Belarus?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- The vices and virtues of joint European Union/Council of Europe programmes</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Geopolitical approach</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- The implications for the Council of Europe of a future enlargement of the European Union</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- The Council of Europe's relations with specific states (e.g. the Russian Federation, Turkey, Azerbaijan)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">- The Council of Europe and (frozen or military) conflicts in Europe</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Funds are available to cover travel and accommodation costs for workshop participants, where necessary. If this is the case, please include a reasoned request with your proposal.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><b>Timetable and submission procedures</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">24 April 2024: Submission of a 1,000-word abstract, in French OR English. Authors are requested to include their full name, title and functions, as well as the institution(s) with which they are affiliated. </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Authors are also encouraged to mention any difficulties they may have in following the debates in French AND English. Projects can be submitted to: anca.ailincai@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">31 May 2024: Response after blind evaluation by the Scientific Committee</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">10 November 2024: all selected participants will be invited to submit the written version of their </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">contribution before the conference.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Week of 2 to 6 December 2024: Workshop in Grenoble'</span></div>Antoine Buysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10338092996739251442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-6037173328965579852024-02-22T11:49:00.000+01:002024-02-22T11:49:26.067+01:00Research Event on Subsidiarity and Human Rights in the EU and the ECtHR<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoxm2DPpBE0yBGZ_2ceSTmzqsYT7R5aCWNdDZsdRlQ5cRSpJPSpgouNNDqW3hyT9wZC4DliQTvhmWSUwam1xGGVkBahwWOhCrHNstEshusQFZY_x9SqFlsEXBaoo1chwLMGPLT5FQuyiIRAZlqUkGX3XCDlA3ytEO5OKZooWe6S6F3yEo6FWsGQSKs9RY/s1600/8d43e973-a72d-43cb-9b9a-02bf89672fe2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoxm2DPpBE0yBGZ_2ceSTmzqsYT7R5aCWNdDZsdRlQ5cRSpJPSpgouNNDqW3hyT9wZC4DliQTvhmWSUwam1xGGVkBahwWOhCrHNstEshusQFZY_x9SqFlsEXBaoo1chwLMGPLT5FQuyiIRAZlqUkGX3XCDlA3ytEO5OKZooWe6S6F3yEo6FWsGQSKs9RY/w200-h113/8d43e973-a72d-43cb-9b9a-02bf89672fe2.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">On Tuesday 19 March 2024 from 16:00 to 17:30 CET, the Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights is hosting a research event entitled '<a href="https://www.hertie-school.org/en/events/event-detail/event/the-soul-of-europe-in-the-balance-subsidiarity-and-human-rights-in-the-eu-and-the-echr">The soul of Europe in the balance? Subsidiarity and human rights in the EU and the ECHR</a>'. The research presentation will be given by </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Andreas Føllesdal (University of Oslo) and will be chaired by Joseph Finnerty (Hertie School). Here is a short description of the event:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">'What is at stake if the EU accedes to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and becomes subject its Court – as required by the Treaty on European Union Article 6? We might expect no conflicts between the human rights protection by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU): The EU is committed to a Charter of Fundamental Rights which requires the CJEU to abide by ECHR standards and ECtHR jurisprudence (52.3). The ECtHR’s ‘Bosphorus Doctrine’ assumes that states comply with the ECHR when they implement EU legislation. And the term ‘subsidiarity’ appears in the treaties of both. Yet the CJEU objected to the draft accession treaty, and the ECtHR appears to foresee some such conflicts.</span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The presentation argues that appeals to subsidiarity will not alleviate the tensions, because the two treaties as interpreted by their courts have different primary objectives. Arguments from subsidiarity do not indicate which of those objectives to privilege in order to harmonize the treaties. Important value laden choices remain concerning how to ‘balance’ and order the various valuable objectives. It seems ill advised to leave those choices to any one of the international courts.'</span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">You can register <a href="https://invtdu.to/_r9xek">here</a>. The registration deadline is 11 March 2024.</span></div><p></p>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-16351161786684976832024-02-14T11:19:00.001+01:002024-02-14T11:19:47.923+01:00New ECHR Readings<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjGADCe2KUcFoPnCIa4bT6ZJAEKjBVIiiagFltJ721q4cn7lhJLcO9dGJ334YyCj8J6h7mp1OtXNxMDN2lQ2RXBS67hyphenhyphenpfIjDolMEmt0b5oAePANmswTPcoFRaqTDhoPHUPyKRbWNB_v3FCEUbe7RyAyKxCNCokxHB-5SgJCEBrTmwS3tQ2QFtE5n2su55/s1000/medieval%20book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1000" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjGADCe2KUcFoPnCIa4bT6ZJAEKjBVIiiagFltJ721q4cn7lhJLcO9dGJ334YyCj8J6h7mp1OtXNxMDN2lQ2RXBS67hyphenhyphenpfIjDolMEmt0b5oAePANmswTPcoFRaqTDhoPHUPyKRbWNB_v3FCEUbe7RyAyKxCNCokxHB-5SgJCEBrTmwS3tQ2QFtE5n2su55/w200-h125/medieval%20book.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Please find below our newest selection of academic publications covering the ECHR and the European Court of Human Rights. Enjoy reading!</span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">* Ryan Goss, ‘The Disappearing ‘Minimum Rights’ of Article 6 ECHR: the Unfortunate Legacy of <i>Ibrahim</i> and <i>Beuze</i>’, <i><a href="https://academic.oup.com/hrlr/article/23/4/ngad024/7264270">Human Rights Law Review</a></i> (2023):</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><div><br /></div><div>‘This article critiques the European Court of Human Rights’ recent extensive case law on the right to a fair trial under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and particularly the right to legal assistance in criminal trials. The article examines the significant and ongoing impact of the judgments in <i>Ibrahim</i> (2016) and <i>Beuze</i> (2018) and argues that the recent case law reflects buyer’s remorse on the part of the Court for its landmark judgment in <i>Salduz</i> (2008). Article 6 is among the most heavily litigated provisions of the ECHR, and this article is the first extended scholarly analysis of the post-<i>Beuze</i> case law. The article identifies two interrelated trends in the most recent case law: first, the Court taking a number of analytical steps that allow it to overlook the text of Article 6(3) in favour of an impressionistic assessment of the overall fairness of the proceedings; and, second, the Court providing Governments with multiple opportunities to advance public interest justification arguments despite continued pronouncements that Article 6 is an unqualified right. The article suggests that the jurisprudence is weakening the Article 6 guarantees.’</div><div><br /></div><div>* Katie Morris, ‘Vulnerability, Care Ethics and the Protection of Socioeconomic Rights via Article 3 ECHR’, <i><a href="https://academic.oup.com/hrlr/article/23/4/ngad028/7382078">Human Rights Law Review</a></i> (2023):</div><div><br /></div><div>‘Vulnerability analysis serves a distinct purpose within adjudication of Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights ('ECHR'), in that it has been used by the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’ or ‘the Court’) to lower the threshold for a finding of ill-treatment from which positive obligations relating to socioeconomic rights have arisen. However, the group-based notion of vulnerability invoked by the Court is extremely limited, producing minimal protection from deprivation whilst equally paternalizing and essentializing the populations it deems vulnerable. In light of these failings, this article proposes a new element to be incorporated within the Court’s vulnerability analysis which can deliver greater protection of socioeconomic rights via Article 3: the political theory of care. By highlighting care’s potential to transform the concepts of vulnerability and state responsibility whilst empowering the care-receiver, it argues that care can overcome the limitations of the Court’s current approach as a means of targeting destitution.’</div><div><br /></div><div>* Maciej Oksztulski, Maciej Perkowski, & Wojciech Zoń, ‘Autistic Persons in the Labour Market in the Light of ECtHR Case-law’, <i><a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/iclr/25/6/article-p546_2.xml">International Community Law Review</a></i> (2023):</div><div><br /></div><div>‘The European acquis on the protection of human rights is indisputable. This also applies to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. However, this acquis is not extensive enough to cover all the problems Europeans have. The aim of this article is to establish the status quo in the area of anti-discrimination against persons on the autism spectrum in the labour market, taking into account the related Strasbourg jurisprudence in question, as a starting point for potential proceedings (in this area) before the European Court of Human Rights. Currently, the body of doctrine in this area is not extensive, and the increasing number of diagnosed cases of autism may in the future necessitate a deeper reflection on the guarantees provided by international law. The article will generally characterise autism, discuss ECtHR jurisprudence relating to persons with disabilities and (briefly) the right to work, discuss the labour market participation of persons on the autism spectrum in selected countries as a challenge to jurisprudence, and present a conclusion.’</div><div><br /></div><div>* Jakub J. Czepek, ‘ECtHR Case-law Concerning Russian Aggression on Ukraine and the Events Taking Place after 2014’, <i><a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/iclr/25/6/article-p573_4.xml">International Community Law Review</a></i> (2023):</div><div><br /></div><div>‘Ukraine has faced ongoing armed conflict within the eastern parts of its territory since 2014. The state witnessed the annexation of Crimea, de facto occupation of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, the shooting down of Flight MH-17, and numerous human rights violations in the eastern parts of the country. Since the Russian aggression in 2022, Ukraine has faced armed conflict throughout the country. At the same time, Russia and Ukraine had been states parties to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Russia ceased to be a party to the ECHR on 16 September 2022, due to its expulsion from the Council of Europe (CoE) six months earlier. All the applications against the Russian Federation filed to the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) before this date should – and will – be examined by the Court. This research mainly aims to analyse the Court’s existing case-law concerning the events in Ukraine after 2014, and the ECtHR jurisprudence concerning armed conflicts. The purpose of such analysis is to examine the possibilities and challenges the Court will face in its forthcoming judgments in inter-state applications filed by Ukraine against Russia. It should be stressed that the execution of these future judgments may also be an issue.’</div><div><br /></div><div>* Bartosz Ziemblicki, ‘Modern Technologies as a Challenge for the Right to Privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights’, <i><a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/iclr/25/6/article-p589_5.xml">International Community Law Review</a></i> (2023):</div><div><br /></div><div>‘The paper explores the right to privacy as a human right and its contemporary challenges in the digital age. It discusses the definition of privacy, its recognition in international human rights documents, and the wording of the right to privacy in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The article highlights the increasing difficulty of protecting privacy in the digital age and the potential threats posed by modern technologies. It also examines the balance between the right to privacy and freedom of expression, particularly on the internet, citing relevant case law from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Furthermore, the article discusses mass surveillance and the protection of personal data as a component of the right to privacy. It emphasizes the importance of effectively enforcing the right to privacy to protect individuals and societies.’</div><div><br /></div><div>* Antonio Mariconda, ‘Victim Status of Individuals in Climate Change Litigation before the ECtHR: Between Old Certainties and New Challenges’, <i>I<a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/iric/3/2/article-p260_004.xml">talian Review of International and Comparative Law</a></i> (2023):</div><div><br /></div><div>‘The climate change applications currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) present substantial challenges to the status quo of the Strasbourg system, encompassing both merits and admissibility issues. Of particular concern is their compliance with the admissibility requirement outlined in Article 34 of the European Convention of Human Rights (echr), which stipulates that applicants must be victims of a violation of the Convention by a State to file a case before the Court. Given the diffuse nature of the harms stemming from climate change, identifying individuals as victims of its effects and, consequently, whose rights are allegedly infringed upon, becomes a complex task. Furthermore, establishing a direct causal link between the harm endured and the actions or omissions of a single State proves to be equally challenging. Therefore, the aim of this article is to scrutinize how this admissibility requirement might operate in the cases at hand. In particular, it argues that, albeit with some caveats, it is legally possible to consider some climate change applicants as both direct and potential victims, as per the definitions established by the case law of the ECtHR. Nevertheless, this solution could pose significant challenges to the legitimacy and efficiency of the Strasbourg system, which the Court will have to prevent when deciding these cases.’</div><div><br /></div><div>* Andrew Drzemczewski & Rick Lawson, ‘Exclusion of the Russian Federation from the Council of Europe and the ECHR: an Overview’, <i><a href="https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/64758">Baltic Yearbook of International Law</a></i> (2022).</div><div><br /></div><div>* Paul Gragl & Christian Breitler, ‘The Past, Present, and Future of European Inter-State Disputes: A Modest Proposal for Reconciling Inter-State Cases in the Context of EU Accession to the ECHR’, <i><a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/lape/22/3/article-p553_5.xml">The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals</a></i> (2023):</div><div><br /></div><div>‘The last few decades have seen a rise in inter-State cases before the international/supranational European courts, i.e., the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union, respectively. This article therefore examines why this particular procedure is challenging for both courts, especially due to potential overlaps in State actors/respondents as well as substantive questions in light of the EU’s planned accession to the ECHR. The EU’s tight jurisdictional corset found in Article 344 TFEU will, in particular, prove to be a considerable issue here. Lastly, possible solutions to these problems will be presented for a future scenario after the Union’s accession to the ECHR, when it will be formally bound by the ECHR and the judgments of the ECtHR.’</div><div><br /></div><div>* Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, ‘Keep Me in the Loop: Feedback Exchange between the European Court of Human Rights and States’, <i><a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/lape/22/3/article-p591_6.xml">The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals</a></i> (2023):</div><div><br /></div><div>‘This article applied the theory of “Voice and Exit” developed by Hirschman to the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR or Court) interaction with its member States. According to this theory, if the organisation cannot be changed through Voice, the Exit of its members is more likely. This article argues that there are avenues for the Contracting Parties to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to Voice their concerns to the ECtHR, however it is important that the Court reacts to these concerns through feedback loops. The feedback loops do not come without a cost and the Court needs to be cognisant of their dangers. The article applies this framework to existing practices of the ECtHR and considers whether the Court used the feedback loops that have already been developed with maximum efficiency. This article establishes a typology of feedback loops and explains how they are operationalised by the ECtHR in practice.’</div><div><br /></div><div>* Agne Limante, ‘Protecting vulnerable groups in Europe: highlights from recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights’, <i><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2023.2297311?src=">The International Journal of Human Rights</a></i> (2023):</div><div><br /></div><div>‘This paper focuses on the recent cases of the European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR, the Court) in which the Court offered legal protection to vulnerable groups. For this purpose, the paper will first discuss the vulnerability paradigm before the ECtHR and draw the list of groups recognised by the Court as vulnerable. It will then turn to the case law to trace the recent trends and developments in the Court’s focus when protecting vulnerable groups. In particular, the research covers the Court judgements rendered in the last four years (from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2022).’</div></span></div>Antoine Buysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10338092996739251442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-77113076241377087192024-02-08T17:01:00.004+01:002024-02-09T14:14:43.711+01:00Conference: Activating the Protection of Fundamental and Human Rights at European Level<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWAMsYen-hh8MBgCfn5GX1ux-LKlcXYmKE6OS3Emh0i-bh9CIty4Yl5te7OSzQENBe_QWzkdyxXrdNfrdltJZtgV8IhXWxQrXrUDes5Wk0lZRB7HHmSb_HL8b7VyrjQ_dSicZCOTze9lPtRe0zBNczjyjtgYUCncr3Gkz2pZYb9wGi7NNxpcRndtx1CMk/s907/HR%20conference.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="907" height="67" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWAMsYen-hh8MBgCfn5GX1ux-LKlcXYmKE6OS3Emh0i-bh9CIty4Yl5te7OSzQENBe_QWzkdyxXrdNfrdltJZtgV8IhXWxQrXrUDes5Wk0lZRB7HHmSb_HL8b7VyrjQ_dSicZCOTze9lPtRe0zBNczjyjtgYUCncr3Gkz2pZYb9wGi7NNxpcRndtx1CMk/w200-h67/HR%20conference.png" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">On Thursday 7 March and Friday 8 March 2024, the Law Department of the College of Europe and the Institute for European Law of KU Leuven/RESHUFFLE project are organizing a high-level conference entitled '<a href="https://www.coleurope.eu/activating-protection-fundamental-and-human-rights-european-level-3">Activating the Protection of Fundamental and Human Rights at European Level</a>'. The conference will focus on the role played by the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe in protecting human rights in Europe. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is a short description of the event:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;">There is growing awareness that the European Union, next to the Council of Europe, is playing an active role in the protection of human rights in Europe.</span></div></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">The two Courts (</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe (‘ECtHR’) & the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">thus often act side-by-side to protect Europe’s most cherished rights. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">This event will shed light on the procedural tools available before each of them to enhance the protection of ‘human rights’, in the language of the ECtHR, and of ‘fundamental rights’, in the language of EU law. What are the respective strengths and weaknesses of each of the two judicial systems when it comes to actually activating them? </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #333333;">While research on substantive law showing complementarities as well as differences between the two approaches is growing, there is still very little analysis of the procedural features of the emerging European law of fundamental and human rights. This event and the publication that will result therefrom are intended to bridge this gap in a context characterised by the revival of prospects of accession by the EU to the ECHR.'</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #333333;">The programme can be found <a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:524e73ae-d56f-46f3-ba29-a2e3d2988dbe">here</a>. You can submit your registration <a href="https://www.coleurope.eu/form/human-rights-conference-law">here</a>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-88241661731308766232024-02-06T13:38:00.002+01:002024-02-06T13:44:29.412+01:00Book Launch: Positive Obligations under the ECHR <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNBfuQMWU6pcL3iUypNF4fU_wLq5v0GlH1enfLhM3HTc7ktmZugNyykrM7zADjkzkVbWuAi-3pmepayizSP5d9zwSjGQtTOERa2N-1duI68ccTV-LsM_nZQ0cwf84VclWLcF-DJauem_ZnSgWnZ6f2D2oNw2n-eHSMKw2fyzY_GO0OHLGm-p-eVKxPYkE/s276/positive_oblig_0.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="183" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNBfuQMWU6pcL3iUypNF4fU_wLq5v0GlH1enfLhM3HTc7ktmZugNyykrM7zADjkzkVbWuAi-3pmepayizSP5d9zwSjGQtTOERa2N-1duI68ccTV-LsM_nZQ0cwf84VclWLcF-DJauem_ZnSgWnZ6f2D2oNw2n-eHSMKw2fyzY_GO0OHLGm-p-eVKxPYkE/w133-h200/positive_oblig_0.jpeg" width="133" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>On Wednesday 21 February 2024, from 17:30 to 19:00 CET, the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights of Oxford University is hosting a <a href="https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/book-launch-positive-obligations-under-european-convention-human-rights-vladislava">book launch</a> for the new book '<a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/positive-obligations-under-the-european-convention-on-human-rights-9780192888044?facet_narrowbypubdate_facet=This%20Month&lang=en&cc=nl#">Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights</a>', authored by Vladislava Stoyanova (</span><span style="text-align: left;">Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University</span>) and published with Oxford University Press. The event will be joined by <span style="text-align: left;">Sandy Steel (P</span><span style="text-align: left;">rofessor of Law and Philosophy of Law in the Faculty of Law at Oxford University), </span>Helen Mountfield KC (</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Principal of Mansfield College and Barrister at Matrix Chambers</span></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">) and Ed Bates (</span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Associate Professor at the University of Leicester). </span></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span>The event will be chaired by </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Başak Çalı (</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Head of Research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and professor of International Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span>Here is a short description of the book:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">'Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights provides novel insight into the elements underlying a state's responsibility to fulfil positive obligations and offers the first examination of the conceptual hurdles of applying positive human rights obligations extraterritorially. It further clarifies European Court of Human Rights doctrine to empower better reasoning and outcomes across the diverse fields in which positive obligations apply. It is essential reading for academics, legal practitioners, and policymakers working across the diverse fields in which positive human rights obligations may apply.'</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">You can register <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9ob_1U7RRU6ulNDL0ebSMQ#/registration">here</a> for the event.</span></div></div><p></p>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-85489300512730482292024-01-30T11:47:00.000+01:002024-01-30T11:47:05.464+01:00Three New Judges and Commissioner Elected<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Da-YxBJD42nNgnrZhKvlsS8Ifk0YdT9Gg9SKNDXpMK-KMLd4iJbXErLm6Uy-jgUH5Nf_7npOhVFfzb5zL915g_RtiHpXgFU2Pg0qTBoNJfTAz4wVDFW57TnqirKZXZxX5eRl9zwPgD6qJfiI2L2vfpoFqc26-B2PAM1uoO23tyaL8RVEVAKq_LDgOTs8/s304/coe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="166" data-original-width="304" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Da-YxBJD42nNgnrZhKvlsS8Ifk0YdT9Gg9SKNDXpMK-KMLd4iJbXErLm6Uy-jgUH5Nf_7npOhVFfzb5zL915g_RtiHpXgFU2Pg0qTBoNJfTAz4wVDFW57TnqirKZXZxX5eRl9zwPgD6qJfiI2L2vfpoFqc26-B2PAM1uoO23tyaL8RVEVAKq_LDgOTs8/w200-h109/coe.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Last week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) had a busy week in many respects, including in terms of elections. No less than three new judges were elected to the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, a new Commissioner for Human Rights was elected.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Stéphane Pisani was elected as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Luxembourg. He is a d</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">eputy Judge at the Administrative Tribunal and a deputy member of the Judicial Disciplinary Court of Luxembourg. He</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"> is also a member of the Superior Courts Network attached to the ECHR and has taught legal professionals about human rights. In the past, he was seconded to the registry of the Court.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Diana Petrova Kovacheva was elected as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Bulgaria. She is currently the Ombudsman (sic) of Bulgaria as well as a professor of international law and international relations. In the past, she also served as Minister of Justice and worked for various civil society organisations, specifically on anti-corruption.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Gediminas Sagatys was elected as judge in respect of Lithuania. For over a decade, judge Sagatys has been serving as a judge in Lithuania's Supreme Court. He is currently also the President of the Association of Judges of Lithuania. Previously, he has been a practising lawyer, academic, and legal advisor for the legislative and the executive in his country. He received his PhD on an ECHR-focused topic, 'The Right of the Child to Family Relations in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and in the Law of the Republic of Lithuania. His election brings to conclusion a long, bumpy process after PACE had <a href="https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1786879/pace-rejects-all-lithuanian-candidates-for-european-court-of-human-rights">rejected</a> the original list of three candidates in 2022 and the national pre-selection had to be redone.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finally, Michael O'Flaherty, was elected as the new Commissioner for Human Rights. With his vast expertise in human rights, working in various capacities for both, academia, an NHRI (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission), the United Nations (as member of the Human Rights Committee) and the European Union, where he led the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) for many years until very recently, he knows the global and European Human Rights ecosystems in and out. He will succeed the current Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic, who has been a very strong voice for human rights, for a six-year, non-renewable term on 1 April 2024. Within the ECHR system, the Commissioner has a right, as Article 36 of the Convention provides, to submit a third party intervention and take part in hearings in cases before the Court.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Congratulations to all of them!</div></span></div>Antoine Buysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10338092996739251442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-8044987882605120972024-01-28T21:37:00.003+01:002024-01-30T11:47:57.592+01:00Annual Press Conference of the Court's President<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXLGkME7tpgrA2gomz4HLhIYSwNuBfgR1MxER6BZombTOidc7v_C6JDFBgHX4euE_dsPE2llqNPWx4Zby-WRBQLO9Q5HfZOJpHvmq4u75QhlJztkQNxlHtHYqckHMorIqMq1i5nl9F0wnNn-tUgalXmcDwrSxgYvoAAqj6rpbVWN5ykGZ6_G_hJ0_ql-g/s600/GErp-wBWEAA2FTq.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="600" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXLGkME7tpgrA2gomz4HLhIYSwNuBfgR1MxER6BZombTOidc7v_C6JDFBgHX4euE_dsPE2llqNPWx4Zby-WRBQLO9Q5HfZOJpHvmq4u75QhlJztkQNxlHtHYqckHMorIqMq1i5nl9F0wnNn-tUgalXmcDwrSxgYvoAAqj6rpbVWN5ykGZ6_G_hJ0_ql-g/w200-h113/GErp-wBWEAA2FTq.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: justify;">On Thursday 25 January 2024, the President of the ECtHR Síofra O’Leary held a press conference during which the results of the Court's activities and statistics for the year 2023 were presented. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: justify;">President O'Leary began the conference by stating that in the year 2023, the ECtHR progressed considerably in processing pending Inter-State cases relating to the conflict in Ukraine. A hearing on the merits took place in the Inter-State case between Ukraine and Russia concerning Crimea, and preparations for another hearing on admissibility and merits in three Inter-State cases against Russia (concerning events in Eastern Ukraine from 2014 until 2022 and the downing of flight MH17) is scheduled to take place this year. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: justify;">During the press conference President O'Leary spoke about some important events that happened in the past year. These include, among others, the adoption of the Reykjavik Declaration following the 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe in May 2023, the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 70th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: justify;"><span>The President then presented some statistics on the activities of the Court in 2023. Again, 2023 was a year in which the Court was extremely active: it issued a total of 1014 judgments. The number of pending applications has decreased significantly by the end of 2023 (68,450 compared to 74,650 by the end of 2022). All statistical information about the activities of the Court is included in the Court's latest <a href="https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/annual-report-2023-eng">annual report</a>. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; text-align: justify;"><span>The opening speech by the President can be found <a href="https://media.licdn.com/dms/document/media/D4E1FAQEIJNX0wyUZeg/feedshare-document-pdf-analyzed/0/1706181109595?e=1707350400&v=beta&t=0kXA_xGZg_5hpiO3KEcZd03eyDTqbeOSorftggGkQHw">here</a>. A video of the press conference is available <a href="https://vodmanager.coe.int/cedh/webcast/cedh/2024-01-25-1/en" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>. </span></div>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-48497998521452597362024-01-23T10:06:00.000+01:002024-01-23T10:06:02.489+01:00Updated Rules of Court on Recusal of Judges<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrF7d5Nna-NNyEEzlmrCkRz_kI8H7Z11EJeJzkebm8TARmui0a7toBZE0W5UzyP54jarvAiNXOT9uGCGeEEJ-5tZ7JOBvZ6hXP9k8iT2qp67tdjZedv2DS2eHPTZy5oM394UYQCuAZr07b_GrAqLaU0ePOGb67YRE3VCYbBKb_XApMPyow492ERHj4BIRB/s1280/rulesofcourt.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrF7d5Nna-NNyEEzlmrCkRz_kI8H7Z11EJeJzkebm8TARmui0a7toBZE0W5UzyP54jarvAiNXOT9uGCGeEEJ-5tZ7JOBvZ6hXP9k8iT2qp67tdjZedv2DS2eHPTZy5oM394UYQCuAZr07b_GrAqLaU0ePOGb67YRE3VCYbBKb_XApMPyow492ERHj4BIRB/w200-h113/rulesofcourt.png" width="200" /></a></div>Yesterday, 22 January, the newest version of the Rules of Court entered into force. Decided by the Plenary of the Court in December, they are part of a series of internal procedural reforms, also related to the Rules of Court, as we reported earlier <a href="https://www.echrblog.com/2023/11/changes-to-rules-of-court-including-on.html">here</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The newest change relates to Rule 28, on the recusal of judges in procedures at the European Court of Human Rights. The new Rule provides as follows:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div><b></b></div><blockquote><div><b>Rule 28 – Inability to sit and recusal</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>1. A judge has the duty to sit in all cases assigned to him or her, unless, for the reasons set out in paragraph 2, he or she may not take part in the consideration of the case.</div><div><br /></div><div>2. A judge may not take part in the consideration of any case if</div><div>(a) he or she has a personal interest in the case, including a spousal, parental or other close family, personal or professional relationship, or a subordinate relationship, with any of the parties;</div><div>(b) he or she has previously acted in the case, whether as the Agent, advocate or adviser of a party or of a person having an interest in the case, or as a member of another national or international tribunal or commission of inquiry, or in any other capacity;</div><div>(c) he or she, being an ad hoc judge or a former elected judge continuing to sit by virtue of Rule 26 § 3, engages in any political or administrative activity or any professional activity which is incompatible with his or her independence or impartiality;</div><div>(d) he or she has expressed opinions publicly, through the communications media, in writing, through his or her public actions or otherwise, that are objectively capable of adversely affecting his or her impartiality;</div><div>(e) for any other reason, his or her independence or impartiality may legitimately be called into doubt.</div><div><br /></div><div>3. Any judge who considers himself or herself to be unable to sit in a case to which he or she has been assigned, for one of the reasons listed in paragraph 2 shall, as soon as possible, in cases allocated to a Committee or Chamber formation, give notice to the President of the Section, who will decide whether the judge concerned should be exempt from sitting. In the event of any doubt on the part of the judge concerned or the President as to the existence of one of the grounds referred to in paragraph 2 of this Rule, that issue shall be decided by the Chamber. After hearing the views of the judge concerned, the Chamber shall deliberate and vote, without that judge being present. For the purposes of the Chamber’s deliberations and vote on this issue, he or she shall be replaced by the first substitute judge in the Chamber. The same shall apply if the judge sits in respect of any Contracting Party concerned in accordance with Rules 29 and 30.</div><div><br /></div><div>4. Only parties to the proceedings may request recusal of a judge assigned to sit in their case for the reasons listed in paragraph 2 of this Rule. Any such request must be duly reasoned and lodged as soon as possible after the party concerned learns about the existence of such reasons. It shall be decided by the Chamber in accordance with the procedure described in paragraph 3 of the present Rule. The parties shall be informed whether or not their request has been accepted.</div><div><br /></div><div>5. The provisions above shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in cases before the Grand Chamber, and – under the authority of the President of the Court – to judges acting as a single judge under Article 27 of the Convention and as duty judge in accordance with Rule 39 of the Rules of Court.</div></blockquote><div></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The background of the change is a further strengthening of judicial impartiality as a foundation for the rule of law, human rights, and the good administration of justice, as the President of the Court explains in an accompanying <a href="https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/pd_recusal_judges_eng?download=true">practice direction</a>. It expressly codifies an already existing practice. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Complementing this change, a full list of the different judicial formations operating within each of the five Sections, including the list of single judges designated by State, have been made public on the website of the Court. This way, parties in proceedings will be able to know more easily which judges will sit on their case. The current changes were made after consultation with the Contracting Parties, organisations with experience in representing applicants, and several bar associations. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">For critical observers of the Court, the degree to which the Court itself aligns its practice with the guarantees of the right to a fair trial under Article 6 ECHR, which binds the Contracting Parties but not the Court itself, has always been a sticky point. This especially applies to length of proceedings - something which, by the way, is not mainly in the hands of the Courts, as it very much depends on means provided by the States. But for this other aspect, recusal of judges, safeguards for a fair trial have now been further strengthened.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The full text of the Rules of Court can be found <a href="https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/Rules_Court_ENG">here</a> and more background information, translations and practice directions can be found on a dedicated <a href="https://www.echr.coe.int/web/echr/rules-of-court">page</a> on the Court's website.</span></div>Antoine Buysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10338092996739251442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-7910221218665912942024-01-22T11:54:00.002+01:002024-01-22T11:54:25.600+01:00New Session of MOOC on ECHR Starts Again on 10 February<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Eho2RrbSD9ZeQHKULhcY4ioZ32uZEaoR6zKAZWW8-f0ORCgOtxu7afTR4wgdQZq1a1s4Fg6FoO7MVN_u-XG5VJ9IB3H3AUIm8qhXl990oKB3xDz6tq_1dvY2fKZBxBcV7mJBrJrkiyi69nx6NvI44oc4KEkLzGNc-jKfFuDZ8tXjVk6sawly_cLabFE/s360/4017a1198e4dbe712c818562c7adbf71e602e029.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="360" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Eho2RrbSD9ZeQHKULhcY4ioZ32uZEaoR6zKAZWW8-f0ORCgOtxu7afTR4wgdQZq1a1s4Fg6FoO7MVN_u-XG5VJ9IB3H3AUIm8qhXl990oKB3xDz6tq_1dvY2fKZBxBcV7mJBrJrkiyi69nx6NvI44oc4KEkLzGNc-jKfFuDZ8tXjVk6sawly_cLabFE/w200-h111/4017a1198e4dbe712c818562c7adbf71e602e029.png" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">On 10 February 2024 Utrecht University's free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR will start again! Registration is open now. To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The MOOC entitled 'Human Rights for Open Societies - An introduction into the ECHR' is taught by my Utrecht University colleagues professor Antoine Buyse and professor Janneke Gerards. This is the description of our six-week course:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">'Human rights are under pressure in many places across the globe. Peaceful protests are violently quashed. Voting is tampered with. And minorities are often excluded from decision-making. All of this threatens the ideal of an open society in which each of us can be free and participate equally. A solid protection of human rights is needed for an open society to exist and to flourish. But it is often an uphill battle to work towards that ideal. Equip yourself and learn more about what human rights are and how they work. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this course, we will introduce you to one of the world’s most intricate human rights systems: the European Convention on Human Rights. You will see when and how people can turn to the European Court of Human Rights to complain about human rights violations. You will learn how the Court tries to solve many of the difficult human rights dilemmas of today. We will look, amongst other things, at the freedom of expression and demonstration, the right to vote, and the prohibition of discrimination. And we will address the rights of migrants, refugees, and other vulnerable groups. And, of course, we will see whether it is possible to restrict rights and if so under what conditions. You will even encounter watchdogs and ice cream in this course. We invite you to follow us on a journey of discovery into the European Convention!'</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Please watch this short introduction video to get an impression:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nxNpjwEIPXo" width="320" youtube-src-id="nxNpjwEIPXo"></iframe></div>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-54125098985981266012024-01-10T09:09:00.000+01:002024-01-10T09:09:40.805+01:00Webinar on 'The Evidentiary System of the European Court of Human Rights in Critical Perspective'<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4aE4RZ6qWheKlnRqcvE-tXqh_CVjqx9sxVl9zK2ThOHYOG4dbDDLhfbKnPf_4_4FUDzQ1xz1_3zl7dAfk4GZSbsMrZUlB8QajBpvlga7o9im3RxvX27xAaBvVTR0DsULYMPGCop5fk41EJKzlO6Rn4UpnCG_85FsqQ48MzkS5PV0tjNcSxN6fMScurPk/s925/GBTC4d4WsAAf7wJ.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="925" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4aE4RZ6qWheKlnRqcvE-tXqh_CVjqx9sxVl9zK2ThOHYOG4dbDDLhfbKnPf_4_4FUDzQ1xz1_3zl7dAfk4GZSbsMrZUlB8QajBpvlga7o9im3RxvX27xAaBvVTR0DsULYMPGCop5fk41EJKzlO6Rn4UpnCG_85FsqQ48MzkS5PV0tjNcSxN6fMScurPk/w200-h104/GBTC4d4WsAAf7wJ.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">On 10 January at 14:00 CET, the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University is organizing a webinar launching the new special issue of the ECHR Law Review entitled '<a href="https://event.ugent.be/registration/event/3a01b178-dc81-4cdb-9317-004ad9bfe8a2">The Evidentiary System of the European Court of Human Rights in Critical Perspective</a>'. The contributors to the special issue will present their research articles, followed by a discussion and general Q&A. The webinar will discuss questions such as: how does evidence work at the European Court of Human Rights? How does the adoption of a particular standard of proof impact the outcome of cases? Is the burden of proof distributed appropriately between the parties? And when does the Court (not) consider facts established?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the programme:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">14:00 Nele Schuldt (DISSECT) Welcome and introduction</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">14:10 Marie-Benedicte Dembour (DISSECT) 'Beyond Reasonable Doubt at its Worst but also at its Potential Best: <i>Ireland v the United Kingdom’s</i> No-Torture Finding Dissected'</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Discussant: Vassilis Tzevelekos (ECHR Law Review)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">14:40 <span style="background-color: white;">Kristin Henrard (Brussels School of Governance) </span><span style="text-align: left;">'The European Court of Human Rights and the ‘Special’ Distribution of the Burden of Proof in Racial Discrimination Cases: The Search for Fairness continues'</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Discussant: Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou (ECHR Law Review)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">15:10 Break</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">15:15 Joseph Finnerty (Hertie School) <span style="background-color: white;">'When is a State’s ‘Hidden Agenda’ Proven? The Role of the Merabishvili’s Three-Legged Evidentiary Test in the Article 18 Strasbourg Case Law'</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">Discussant: Corina Heri (University of Zurich)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">15:45 <span style="background-color: white;">Grażyna Baranowska (Hertie School) 'Exposing Covert Border Enforcement: Why Failing to Shift the Burden of Proof in Pushback Cases is Wrong'</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Discussant: Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary University of London and University of Barcelona)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">16:15 Break</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">16:20 Anne-Katrin Speck (DISSECT) General remarks, followed by general Q&A</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17:00 End of the proceedings</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can register <a href="https://event.ugent.be/registration/event/3a01b178-dc81-4cdb-9317-004ad9bfe8a2">here</a>. </div></span>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-28133225039577843612024-01-09T16:22:00.000+01:002024-01-09T16:22:39.621+01:00New Special Issue ECHR Law Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDvznecp7viTyLBIqPyXs8ArHSPEQv_t4wLbqvCScNbsgmWhsmW80egistzTYDnOudi69xtI1Um-PrKdOzJEX1_p-ZwQBLw-9EZdbqXqJlLK8sHx8iDaG937WAmxzdRKJopjvfHvu0Vwz1MnYqH-YqbBZcF_porNlzv5jycaJRBiFWbHEY8eHn74p5ZT0/s303/coverimage.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDvznecp7viTyLBIqPyXs8ArHSPEQv_t4wLbqvCScNbsgmWhsmW80egistzTYDnOudi69xtI1Um-PrKdOzJEX1_p-ZwQBLw-9EZdbqXqJlLK8sHx8iDaG937WAmxzdRKJopjvfHvu0Vwz1MnYqH-YqbBZcF_porNlzv5jycaJRBiFWbHEY8eHn74p5ZT0/w132-h200/coverimage.webp" width="132" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Right before Christmas the last issue of 2023 of the <i><a href="https://brill-com.proxy.library.uu.nl/view/journals/eclr/4/4/eclr.4.issue-4.xml">ECHR Law Review</a></i> was published (Vol. 4, issue 4). This special issue, edited by Marie-Benedicte Dembour (Human Rights Centre, Ghent University), looks at the way evidence works at the European Court of Human Rights. The issue contains one editorial and four research articles. This is the table of contents:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, 'The Evidentiary System of the European Court of Human Rights in Critical Perspective'</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, 'Beyond Reasonable Doubt at its Worst – But Also at its Potential Best: Dissecting Ireland v the United Kingdom’s No-Torture Finding'</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Kristin Henrard, 'The European Court of Human Rights and the ‘Special’ Distribution of the Burden of Proof in Racial Discrimination Cases: The Search for Fairness Continues'</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Joseph Finnerty, 'When is a State’s ‘Hidden Agenda’ Proven? The Role of the Merabishvili’s Three-Legged Evidentiary Test in the Article 18 Strasbourg Case Law'</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Grażyna Baranowska, 'Exposing Covert Border Enforcement: Why Failing to Shift the Burden of Proof in Pushback Cases is Wrong'</div></span>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-76499674937156204242023-12-21T10:47:00.000+01:002023-12-21T10:47:45.721+01:00New Thematic Factsheet on Reproductive Rights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZHPquSkbuuMaQF66Ywk9_uyGXoH0l5FzXos_qIvaRHQ7Ac2rjoHkRYiyY9Q6ZI-SrYGND1ekgZYNnNygEtxnUqZKm-2iijb7M28Jv9YnVLa3GbduLM0ZoOXk9SfGQRt11t5DX3UB3PpT4OJEsYa5PlGfvzUplMBmY8QO4nwQt2PHdlbiXvVNSn1seCL4/s1515/Screenshot_20231219_124040_LinkedIn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1515" data-original-width="1080" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZHPquSkbuuMaQF66Ywk9_uyGXoH0l5FzXos_qIvaRHQ7Ac2rjoHkRYiyY9Q6ZI-SrYGND1ekgZYNnNygEtxnUqZKm-2iijb7M28Jv9YnVLa3GbduLM0ZoOXk9SfGQRt11t5DX3UB3PpT4OJEsYa5PlGfvzUplMBmY8QO4nwQt2PHdlbiXvVNSn1seCL4/w143-h200/Screenshot_20231219_124040_LinkedIn.jpg" width="143" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The Council of Europe's Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has just issued a new <a href="https://rm.coe.int/thematic-factsheet-reproductive-rights-eng/1680adebc3">thematic factsheet</a> on how judgments of the Court have helped to protect and advance reproductive rights. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is a brief description:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'Under the European Court’s case law, the notion of “private life” within the meaning of Article 8 (right to <span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights incorporates the right to </span>respect for both the decisions to become and not to become a parent. Thus, the European Court addresses under Article 8 issues related to the protection of reproductive rights, such as prenatal medical tests, medically assisted procreation, access to abortion, sterilisation procedures and protection of medical data. In some cases, the Court also examined issues related to the protection of reproductive rights under other Articles, such as Article 3 (the prohibition of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment), Article 6 (regarding the right of access to a court), Article 10 (freedom of expression), Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination), or Article 1 Protocol No. 1 (protection of property).</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Under the European Court’s case law, the notion of “private life” within the meaning of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights incorporates the right to respect for both the decisions to become and not to become a parent. Thus, the European Court addresses under Article 8 issues related to the protection of reproductive rights, such as prenatal medical tests, medically assisted procreation, access to abortion, sterilisation procedures and protection of medical data. In some cases, the Court also examined issues related to the protection of reproductive rights under other Articles, such as Article 3 (the prohibition of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment), Article 6 (regarding the right of access to a court), Article 10 (freedom of expression), Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination), or Article 1 Protocol No. 1 (protection of property).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The present factsheet provides examples of general and individual measures reported by States in the context of the execution of the European Court’s judgments, concerning the: protection of mothers against discrimination, access to medically assisted procreation, regulation of home births, recognition of parent-child relationship in cases of surrogate motherhood, access to lawful abortion and to information on abortion, non-consented sterilisation, protection of personal data and access to medical records, and other issues.'</span></div></div></div>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-85185396548120151402023-12-20T08:06:00.001+01:002023-12-20T08:06:39.022+01:00New ECHR Readings<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyTlcqCyBWnH1JS4zXTSue03qQCC9cnEc1ZFGRuQjBh7Y2Yk-TZvjydI9xSSRINbGC9SUntiWAu6QCN9jKJtpvDO1GVqOfckpt-pMCQIRRRPpduaCiBI_CV_j8MmAhKW_98kn8Ywxqw2HCORPcslraFgCMSQNrhB4ecSSCh5PTszaEH2sRqKU7Z_qhBbyg/s550/Sapin-Noel-3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="550" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyTlcqCyBWnH1JS4zXTSue03qQCC9cnEc1ZFGRuQjBh7Y2Yk-TZvjydI9xSSRINbGC9SUntiWAu6QCN9jKJtpvDO1GVqOfckpt-pMCQIRRRPpduaCiBI_CV_j8MmAhKW_98kn8Ywxqw2HCORPcslraFgCMSQNrhB4ecSSCh5PTszaEH2sRqKU7Z_qhBbyg/w200-h150/Sapin-Noel-3.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In the last batch of readings of 2023 related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court, please find our selection below. We wish all our readers a good holiday season!</div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">* Helen Keller and Viktoriya Gurash, ‘Expanding NGOs’ standing: climate justice through access to the European Court of Human Rights’ </span><span lang="NL"><a href="https://www.elgaronline.com/view/journals/jhre/14/2/article-p194.xml?rskey=OLKewL&result=1" style="color: #954f72;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Journal of Human Rights and the Environment</span></i></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> (2023), vol. 14, no. 2, p. 194-218:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">‘Due to the nature of environmental litigation, expanding the standing of actors that could bring claims to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) – such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) – has become a pressing need. This article explores the current approach to NGOs’ standing to bring environment-related claims before the ECtHR. In particular, by drawing on the Aarhus Convention, the article explores NGOs’ important role before the ECtHR given their recognized right to environmental information, as well as their role in upholding the right to a fair trial at national level. In conclusion, it is argued that NGOs should be given a more prominent role in environmental cases and that the dichotomy between the case law regarding NGOs’ standing in claims under Articles 2, 3 and 8 on the one hand, and Articles 6 and 10 on the other, is outdated.’</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">* Helga Molbæk-Steensig and Alexandre Quemy ‘Judicial Independence and Impartiality: Tenure Changes at the European Court of Human Rights’, </span><span lang="NL"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article-abstract/34/3/581/7250322?redirectedFrom=fulltext" style="color: #954f72;"><span lang="EN-US"><i>European Journal of International Law</i></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><i> </i>(2023), vol. 34, no. 3:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">‘Judges should be impartial and independent, judging based solely on the law. Current constitutional literature suggests an important factor in securing this may be the length of tenure. The assumption is that judges with non-renewable terms are more independent than judges with renewable terms since they do not have to worry about reappointment, but proving this assumption empirically is not straightforward. Obstacles include difficulties in comparing different courts and the fact that there is often no obvious case outcome that proves independence. This article aims to overcome these obstacles with a mixed-methods study on the European Court of Human Rights during a time when the tenure rules changed. The study goes beyond the counting of votes and analyses the arguments used in separate opinions as indicators of independence. Our main findings are that, after the introduction of non-renewable terms, judges write more opinions overall, and more of them criticize the judges’ appointing states, while fewer defend it. We also find that judges on non-renewable terms are on average more likely to write opinions addressing violations as systemic problems and to use their opinions to provide guidance for their appointing states on implementing judgments and improving human rights protection.’</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">* Patrick Leisure, ‘Europe's Schoolhouse Gate? Strasbourg, Schools, and the European Convention on Human Rights’, <i><a href="https://law.stanford.edu/publications/europes-schoolhouse-gate-strasbourg-schools-and-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/">Stanford Journal of </a></i></span><span lang="EN-US"><i><a href="https://law.stanford.edu/publications/europes-schoolhouse-gate-strasbourg-schools-and-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/">International Law</a></i> (2023), vol. 59, no. 2: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">‘Yale law professor Justin Driver's 2018 book, <i>The Schoolhouse Gate,</i> argues that American public schools have served as the most important sites of constitutional conflict in United States history. This Article, inspired by Driver's work, argues that primary and secondary schools similarly serve as some of the most significant forums of human rights conflict in the Council of Europe. In support of this argument, the Article adopts a two-tiered analysis. The first is court-centric, focusing primarily on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights involving schools. The second is society-centric and homes in on the crossroads at which the European Court of Human Rights, schools across the Council of Europe, and European societies meet. By making the above claim regarding the centrality of schools, this Article hopes not only to spur on further discussion about human rights within Europe's schoolhouse gate, but also to deepen the conversation regarding how schools as institutions interact with European supranational human rights protections.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">* Cosette D Creamer and Zuzanna Godzimirska, ‘Trust, Legal Elites, and the European Court of Human Rights’, </span><span lang="NL"><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/910490/summary" style="color: #954f72;"><span lang="EN-US"><i>Human Rights Quarterly</i></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> (2023), Vol. 45, no. 4:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">‘This article interrogates institutional sources of trust distinct to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Drawing from interviews with ECtHR officials and legal elites, the article identifies practices related to access, procedure, and performance that are central to direct stakeholders' evaluations of judicial trustworthiness. Elite trust is necessary for the continued operation of judicial bodies, and these stakeholders act as intermediaries with the potential to shape public perceptions. The article's findings have important implications for ECtHR's continued relevance, especially given the mounting resistance to it in recent years.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">* Ottavio Quirico, ‘Sources of EU Law: A Review in Light of the Accession of the Union to the ECHR - A Matter of Principle’, </span><span lang="NL"><a href="https://www.elevenjournals.com/tijdschrift/HYIEL/2023/1/HYIEL_2666-2701_2023_011_001_010" style="color: #954f72;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law</span></i></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> (2023):<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">‘The accession of the EU to the ECHR raises several problems. This article argues that procedural problems are fundamentally rooted in substantive issues, with specific regard to the sources of EU law. More precisely, in order to allow accession, it would be essential to review Article 6(3) TEU so as to lower the level of the ECHR as a source of general principles of EU law to (at least) the same hierarchical level as the founding treaties. Yet, while this solution can be satisfactory for EU Member States that are parties to the ECHR and its protocols, it is not necessarily appealing to non-EU States that are parties to the ECHR system, similar to the stall generated by the Energy Charter Treaty in the field of investment. Furthermore, the solution fundamentally clashes with the consolidated priority of the general principles of EU law crystallized in cases such as Kadi.’</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">* Sergio Salinas Alcega, ‘The Invasion of Ukraine from the Point of View of the European Court of Human Rights: Extraterritorial Responsibility of Russia and (Un)Control of International Humanitarian Law’, </span><span lang="NL"><a href="https://www.sqdi.org/fr/the-invasion-of-ukraine-from-the-point-of-view-of-the-european-court-of-human-rights-extraterritorial-responsibility-of-russia-and-uncontrol-of-international-humanitarian-law/" style="color: #954f72;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Revue Québécoise de Droit International</span></i></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> (2023):<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">‘The negative impact of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia on international law has many dimensions, the massive and flagrant violation of human rights being one of the most relevant. From this perspective, the role of international mechanisms for the protection of these rights, and notably the European Convention system and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), has become particularly important. The Strasbourg Court’s approach can be divided into two different aspects, which are obviously interrelated. The main aspect relates to the scope of the European Convention on Human Rights’ (ECHR) responsibility regarding Russia. Considering that relevant acts are committed by Russia outside its territory, the question of the extraterritorial application of the Convention becomes crucial. The second aspect relates to how the Strasbourg judges see the interplay between the ECHR and international humanitarian law, and especially their role in exercising a certain amount of control over the latter’s application. Here, the Court could help remedy the shortcomings that currently exist in terms of the availability of specific mechanisms to demand responsibility from the States for the violation of norms in this domain of international law. Regarding both aspects, there is already a rich and developing Strasbourg jurisprudence even if, of course, it is not exempt from criticism. The acts committed by Russia in Ukraine may make it possible to revisit this jurisprudence and allow it to overcome certain shortcomings which have been identified.’</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">* Aikaterini Tsampi, ‘Islandness and the European Court of Human Rights: Marooning Rights on Islands?’, </span><span lang="NL"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40802-023-00238-0" style="color: #954f72;"><span lang="EN-US"><i>Netherlands International Law Review</i></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> (2023), vol. 70 no. 2:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">‘Some 80 million people live on European islands. It thus comes as no surprise that a number of cases brought before the European Court of Human Rights developed on and/or pertain to islands. What is surprising, though, is that this jurisprudential corpus has not been explored with a view to assessing whether islandness has or should have a role in the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights on islands. The present paper contemplates the strengths of an islandness-based approach in the implementation of human rights through the mapping of the weaknesses, the potentials and the lost opportunities in the case law of the Court with respect to such an approach. In this context, findings from the field of Island Studies are also considered. By focusing on the ECHR habitat, the present paper exemplifies, in particular, the untapped potential of an islandness-based approach in the development of international human rights law in general.’</span></span></p>Antoine Buysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10338092996739251442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-49425332806718345152023-12-19T10:44:00.000+01:002023-12-19T10:44:01.754+01:00New Book on Compliance with ECtHR Judgments <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXXx1olC5ybXeOwf2L9pNacg5nRNU8fxjkuo3o6AyITuWD1bjO97U6XiXhZbO9xGjyg2An5zCGM8aME9nahCY6LN1hJuNwFZVfSCX6Trd__PvLXqpyA1F4rpC9AA8N8n91EtwyfyxJ2G9piMXcaUMdu3b1-fLKlEcxzH2MsA5peR37yV1ccsRkDFArsDo/s458/coverimage.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXXx1olC5ybXeOwf2L9pNacg5nRNU8fxjkuo3o6AyITuWD1bjO97U6XiXhZbO9xGjyg2An5zCGM8aME9nahCY6LN1hJuNwFZVfSCX6Trd__PvLXqpyA1F4rpC9AA8N8n91EtwyfyxJ2G9piMXcaUMdu3b1-fLKlEcxzH2MsA5peR37yV1ccsRkDFArsDo/w131-h200/coverimage.webp" width="131" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Ramute Remezaite (European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, School of Law, Middlesex University) has just published a new book entitled <i><a href="https://brill-com.proxy.library.uu.nl/display/title/64256?rskey=4CCVQu&result=30&contents=editorial-content">Compliance with Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: States on a Spectrum of Democratisation</a>. </i>This is the abstract:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">'What does compliance with judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) look like in states on the spectrum of democratisation? This work provides an in-depth investigation of three such states—Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia— in the wider context of the growing 'implementation crisis' in Europe, and does so through a combined lens of theoretical insights and rich empirical data.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The book offers a detailed analysis of the domestic contexts varying from democratising to increasingly authoritarian tendencies, which shape the states’ compliance behaviour, and discusses why and how such states comply with human rights judgments. It puts particular focus on ‘contested’ compliance as a new form of compliance behaviour involving states’ acting in ‘bad faith’ and argues for a revival of the concept of partial compliance. The wider impact that ECtHR judgments have in states on the spectrum of democratisation is also explored.'</span></div>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-20704495345786932332023-12-15T10:18:00.001+01:002023-12-15T10:36:12.807+01:00New Book on the ECHR and the Western Balkans<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg63d3MfiWlPM0jZAhmZHVcq4r4WGZemBS3hkzUhVeLe9kDv6uajlQX23GsWKL_WyNjlCXQr-sGaxVf1kDK5_ol1cnBE-uf3sRPy0I-uJ9IQfJKy0SBfgA9nYdDikThTDtQ0H08nk7QNDgfHdmEsol-yXloOZ5Nsbfd5rDWPXrIv8QCgDYJXUNDrdkznOU/s1024/Diss-Kabashi-Cover-Front-V1_02-20231129-705x1024.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="705" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg63d3MfiWlPM0jZAhmZHVcq4r4WGZemBS3hkzUhVeLe9kDv6uajlQX23GsWKL_WyNjlCXQr-sGaxVf1kDK5_ol1cnBE-uf3sRPy0I-uJ9IQfJKy0SBfgA9nYdDikThTDtQ0H08nk7QNDgfHdmEsol-yXloOZ5Nsbfd5rDWPXrIv8QCgDYJXUNDrdkznOU/w138-h200/Diss-Kabashi-Cover-Front-V1_02-20231129-705x1024.jpg" width="138" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Venera Kabashi (University of Zurich) has just published her dissertation entitled <i><a href="https://eizpublishing.ch/publikationen/the-echr-and-the-western-balkans/">The ECHR and the Western Balkans: Bringing the Convention Home</a>. </i>The book is published by EIZ (<span style="text-align: left;">Europa Institut an der Universität Zürich) </span>Publishing and is available as an open access book. The dissertation analyses the impact and the effects of the Convention and the case-law of the Court in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">This is the abstract:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">'<span style="text-align: left;">What does it ultimately take to bring the ECHR home in all Western Balkans States and embed it properly within these domestic legal orders? This is the main query of this PhD thesis. How have the domestic courts and other domestic authorities reacted following violations found at the Strasbourg level in respect of their State? How often do the highest domestic courts in the Western Balkans engage in Convention talk and what is the quality of such judicial dialogue? What are the roles of the ECtHR and of the domestic courts in view of their shared responsibility to secure and ensure effective protection of Convention rights? When can the Strasbourg Court comfortably defer to the ratio decidendi of the domestic courts and other domestic authorities? What has been the impact and effects of the Convention and the ECtHR’s case-law in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Serbia? What are the good and not so good ECHR embeddedness practices that may be noticed across the Western Balkan States and what are the recommendations that this study suggests with a view to achieve better embeddedness/domestication of the ECHR? These are only some of the remaining research questions that are explored in this PhD monograph.'</span></span></div><p></p>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-3580603461451142892023-12-06T09:27:00.001+01:002023-12-06T10:24:42.817+01:00Call for Contributions: European Yearbook on Human Rights 2024 <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieNoDkwCP1zyRtoqLb_p5ZnP0G0KQmNR43V-H5xW-c55lRrxO3eyicRP0GGnGxJ6xPT1wF9y5IPgtHiwPloWkesw9xWKH-tZTOOim3XHZFQtkmXfFvTdcWG9LTyuhkuAzNLJIwFSRFPEiiSlMeekkehVY7Nu4iHHMarR2SBJjqegB0ieHCpXmJSUn5nQs/s1200/CONF-9781839704161_1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieNoDkwCP1zyRtoqLb_p5ZnP0G0KQmNR43V-H5xW-c55lRrxO3eyicRP0GGnGxJ6xPT1wF9y5IPgtHiwPloWkesw9xWKH-tZTOOim3XHZFQtkmXfFvTdcWG9LTyuhkuAzNLJIwFSRFPEiiSlMeekkehVY7Nu4iHHMarR2SBJjqegB0ieHCpXmJSUn5nQs/w133-h200/CONF-9781839704161_1.png" width="133" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The European Yearbook on Human Rights has issued a call for contributions for its 2024 issue. The Yearbook publishes mostly about the European Convention on Human Rights and the Council of Europe. It also contains sections on human rights in the European Union, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe as well as cross-cutting analysis and commentary.</div></span><div><p></p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Here is the description of the call:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">'The European Yearbook on Human Rights is shedding light on
current human rights topics of concern and the most pressing
issues that impair human rights protection, the rule of law and
democracy in Europe and beyond. With special sections
dedicated to the three main organisations securing human
rights in Europe (EU, Council of Europe and OSCE) as well as
a section on cross-cutting issues the Yearbook provides muchneeded analysis and insightful commentary. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The Yearbook is edited by Philip Czech (Austrian Institute for
Human Rights, University of Salzburg), Lisa Heschl and Gerd
Oberleitner (both European Training and Research Centre for
Human Rights and Democracy, University of Graz), Karin
Lukas (Department of Legal Studies, Central European
University) and Manfred Nowak (Global Campus of Human
Rights). It is published by Intersentia and all contributions are
subject to a double-blind review process ensuring the highest
academic standards. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">We welcome submissions concerning human rights developments within the major European institutions
namely the EU, the CoE and the OSCE. Articles concerning a topic not related to one of the
aforementioned institutions but dealing with current and topical human rights developments will be taken
into consideration as well. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Authors will be invited to submit full contributions based on an abstract (max 500 words) that should be
send by 20 December 2023. Abstracts should be submitted with a short bio to lisa.heschl@uni-graz.at. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The deadline for submitting the manuscript is end of March 2024.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">For further information on the European Yearbook on Human Rights see
https://www.larcier-intersentia.com/en/european-yearbook-human-rights-2023-9781839704161.html'</span></div>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-45002910852031958222023-12-05T16:12:00.000+01:002023-12-05T16:12:45.678+01:00Lecture: 'Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters'<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJEDSA-m1xX4gLAywFSksBH_zqACgH2fx5bT-2zi2V-k2QwRFJnESCpAH0S1BZ6VuohhVx0Z5otXdE0rcj5-taSUyNJ71KJYFiZFS-GVQgH-USvQi-Zsrniug236xSUdn_GCCCNwWLT_stCCURRxwP59k3OruRN8AFaqEdOcF1ysHQXRmHVMGEHZcEa7A/s400/siofra_oleary2_sm_0.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="275" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJEDSA-m1xX4gLAywFSksBH_zqACgH2fx5bT-2zi2V-k2QwRFJnESCpAH0S1BZ6VuohhVx0Z5otXdE0rcj5-taSUyNJ71KJYFiZFS-GVQgH-USvQi-Zsrniug236xSUdn_GCCCNwWLT_stCCURRxwP59k3OruRN8AFaqEdOcF1ysHQXRmHVMGEHZcEa7A/w138-h200/siofra_oleary2_sm_0.jpg" width="138" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">On Thursday 30 November 2023, the President of the ECtHR Síofra O’Leary delivered the annual Mackenzie Stuart Lecture for Cambridge University's Centre for European Legal Studies on '<a href="https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie-stuart-lectures/mackenzie-stuart-lecture-2023-why-european-convention-human-rights-still">Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters</a>'. In the lecture President O'Leary discusses the relationship between the United Kingdom and the Convention, the role of the Convention as an instrument of peace and stability in Europe, the right to access to justice, the rule of law and the continued importance of the Convention in Europe and beyond. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">A recording of the lecture can be found <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LceeQ8Y86rI">here</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LceeQ8Y86rI" width="320" youtube-src-id="LceeQ8Y86rI"></iframe></div></div><p></p>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-14039861946469581112023-12-01T17:35:00.001+01:002023-12-01T17:43:17.860+01:00NNHRR Interview on Climate Change Litigation before the ECtHR<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmEPrm4KjVjvUFXpRNCWLDxWhqpMWIw4bZjnDfARTMjnH4-lz9faXFsl9cdbRSRviVlYPhyUHW4TfmtJ2OJ17r7dnvoSSnaSjx3o-oakxTT0PPQOt9y18-BrvBMD11rnaEMPD7td18jjBaGmEFO369PDFferGRTF4-b9bKdTfQwOe4Qb6YweO1CQFrnY4/s1080/Screenshot_20231201_164107_LinkedIn.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1080" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmEPrm4KjVjvUFXpRNCWLDxWhqpMWIw4bZjnDfARTMjnH4-lz9faXFsl9cdbRSRviVlYPhyUHW4TfmtJ2OJ17r7dnvoSSnaSjx3o-oakxTT0PPQOt9y18-BrvBMD11rnaEMPD7td18jjBaGmEFO369PDFferGRTF4-b9bKdTfQwOe4Qb6YweO1CQFrnY4/w200-h145/Screenshot_20231201_164107_LinkedIn.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Last week, Anmol Gulecha (Tilburg University) and Jolein Holtz (Leiden University) gave an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCu-BcYNfq8">interview</a> to the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR) on the case of </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others, one of the three climate change cases currently pending before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. This case concerns the greenhouse gas emissions from 33 Member States of the Council of Europe. According to the applicants in the case, these emissions contribute to global warming and lead to heatwaves, affecting the applicants' health and living conditions. The interview provides some interesting comments on the case.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The interview is the first episode of the NNHRR #HumanRightsNow interview series which discusses current issues in International and European Human Rights Law. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qCu-BcYNfq8" width="320" youtube-src-id="qCu-BcYNfq8"></iframe></div></div><p></p>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-56142737209914241452023-11-24T14:00:00.003+01:002023-11-24T14:01:53.204+01:00New Book on the Freedom of Religion or Belief in the ECHR <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityOIsi9bYb3wNC-Uwc55YOS9QkTCa-OORC8yOr5P8wzXnIE6enOkzQ2BE7B3s2t5i57n5T1URJadl0SrIh1cU9jjl0m5jOHZ5PLjDnpISHOC5PGvI7xjR7XPl1ASWokMmo3fj2FdCZ-MpIvjvmonbA1C34ZEO4GkahdWhZW_gFHjOYgBwh1WILZ4Jcaw/s264/9781009233675.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityOIsi9bYb3wNC-Uwc55YOS9QkTCa-OORC8yOr5P8wzXnIE6enOkzQ2BE7B3s2t5i57n5T1URJadl0SrIh1cU9jjl0m5jOHZ5PLjDnpISHOC5PGvI7xjR7XPl1ASWokMmo3fj2FdCZ-MpIvjvmonbA1C34ZEO4GkahdWhZW_gFHjOYgBwh1WILZ4Jcaw/w136-h200/9781009233675.jpg" width="136" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Caroline K. Roberts (Oxford Brookes University) has just published a new book entitled <i><a href="https://www-cambridge-org.proxy.library.uu.nl/nl/universitypress/subjects/law/human-rights/freedom-religion-or-belief-european-convention-human-rights-reappraisal?format=HB">Freedom of Religion or Belief in the European Convention on Human Rights: A Reappraisal</a>. </i>This is the abstract:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">''</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion in Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has become increasingly significant and contested. Through an examination of ECHR Article 9, its drafting history, and the related jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Caroline K. Roberts challenges the classic approach to this right in the literature. Roberts argues that claims that there is, or should be, a clear binary and hierarchical distinction between the absolutely protected internal realm and the qualified external realm in this right are not founded textually or jurisprudentially. Rather, the primary materials suggest that the internal and external aspects are deeply interrelated, and this is reflected in the ECtHR's nuanced and holistic approach to ECHR Article 9 protection. This comprehensive, rigorous and up-to-date reappraisal of ECHR Article 9 and the related ECtHR jurisprudence will be essential reading for academics and practitioners.''</span></span></div>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-79484850043515787652023-11-20T16:11:00.000+01:002023-11-20T16:11:38.277+01:00Launch of the Open Council of Europe Academic Networks Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRElbFHAUneYya86yOoLpQgVf8zUk1KNdbxno5IxpL5YSuLLpjdnU8pFzEwqwMBBkfPubyHcXi9W0UrzQ3i_sbwW1pEC0lbW1U4u0MZJKNMtfblkP9b__-vpa3M8McmLvvZD6tGPnmHF-OO8_mHJzlZmFkpAk_nOI4p_gCiRTnDXLe5XjOoslM_x_UaOE/s800/visual-ID-ocean.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="800" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRElbFHAUneYya86yOoLpQgVf8zUk1KNdbxno5IxpL5YSuLLpjdnU8pFzEwqwMBBkfPubyHcXi9W0UrzQ3i_sbwW1pEC0lbW1U4u0MZJKNMtfblkP9b__-vpa3M8McmLvvZD6tGPnmHF-OO8_mHJzlZmFkpAk_nOI4p_gCiRTnDXLe5XjOoslM_x_UaOE/w200-h156/visual-ID-ocean.png" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The Council of Europe has launched the <a href="https://www.coe.int/en/web/open-academic-networks/who-we-are">Open Council of Europe Academic Networks (OCEAN)</a> project. The aim of the initiative is to strengthen co-operation between the Council of Europe and European universities and research institutions, and to promote the Council of Europe convention system through sharing and creating knowledge. OCEAN membership is open to universities as well as individual academics teaching at these institutions or conducting research independently. Membership is also open to research institutions (independent or as part of a university), university faculties and existing national and European academic networks working on issues related to Council of Europe conventions. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is a summary of the project:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'The Open Council of Europe Academic Networks (OCEAN) unite universities, research institutions and scholars from the Council of Europe´s 46 member states around the shared goal of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>Initiated in 2018 by Prof. Michele Nicoletti, then president of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, OCEAN is now ready to welcome academic members, institutional and individual, to join.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Open Council of Europe Academic Networks aim at sharing and creating knowledge around the Council of Europe´s more than 200 conventions in European academia through teaching and research.</div><div><br /></div><div>OCEAN provides a platform for connecting universities, research institutions and individual academics who focus on a Council of Europe convention of their choice or other topics related to the work and mission of the Council of Europe. It serves as a resource for information on Council of Europe activities; helps to share best practices and research; connects its members to the Council of Europe and its expert teams and gives them the opportunity to join events organised by OCEAN in Strasbourg or in Council of Europe member countries offline and online.</div><div><br /></div><div>Institutional members are requested to organise a minimum of one academic activity per year – for example workshops, conferences, summer or winter schools – in the substantive fields described above. Individual members are required to take a leading role in the organisation of the above activities or publish an academic paper or book focused on a Council of Europe convention or other topics related to its mission.'</div><div><br /></div><div>According to the <a href="https://www.coe.int/en/web/open-academic-networks/faq#{%22167951015%22:[2]}">FAQ about membership</a>, the following is expected of members:</div><div><br /></div><div><div>'OCEAN members choose at the beginning of their membership one or several Council of Europe conventions they are interested in. They are expected to engage in education, research, and other academic activities that promote these self-chosen conventions.</div><div><br /></div><div>Universities, research institutions and networks are required to organise and carry out one academic activity per year (workshop, conference, summer or winter school…). Individual members are required to either engage in one of the above activities (as organiser or speaker) or conduct research or publish (article, book) on the chosen Council of Europe convention.'</div></div><div><br /></div><div>More information about how to join the initiative can be found <a href="https://www.coe.int/en/web/open-academic-networks/membership">here</a>. </div></div></span>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-53398835425844059712023-11-17T12:19:00.005+01:002023-11-17T12:19:30.054+01:00Changes to the Rules of Court, Including on Interim Measures<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUdmcx_AGtqWAtSAwxUwIAXSUkk8Q2pV8RcfD-iQ2NLmiDo5h-htsE7QFUIMu1WMSr1uEzUI82eAASBbJppwFOSjxlL1njlPrjGjt70ctjs5moVGwNntwq4qcJYQ03UPvKBAXQIGJzE4OLflikI3_6V9B3jLMbRM8uSy6PJ32hcyFE4vWPgy0uUnMGh0V2/s311/interim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="311" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUdmcx_AGtqWAtSAwxUwIAXSUkk8Q2pV8RcfD-iQ2NLmiDo5h-htsE7QFUIMu1WMSr1uEzUI82eAASBbJppwFOSjxlL1njlPrjGjt70ctjs5moVGwNntwq4qcJYQ03UPvKBAXQIGJzE4OLflikI3_6V9B3jLMbRM8uSy6PJ32hcyFE4vWPgy0uUnMGh0V2/w200-h104/interim.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>In the past few months, the Court has been initiating some changes to its </span><a href="https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/rules_court_eng" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Rules of Court</a><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">. Several of the changes relate to both degrees of transparency: on the public character of documents (</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Rule 33 § 1 on this has been amended) and a new, connected Rule (44F) on the treatment of 'highly sensitive documents' relating for example to national security interests of the state or "equally compelling interests" of an applicant.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The second set, of proposed changes in this case, relate to interim measures. The Court is in the proces of codifying its practice, also explicitly into the specific Rule 39 on interim measures. Earlier this month, the Plenary Court - so all judges together - provisionally adopted changes to Rule 39. States parties to the ECHR, specific organisations with experience in representing applications and relevant bar associations have now been asked by the Registrar to provide comments before 4 December. Depending on the input received the Court will subsequently amend or adopt the proposed changes. After this, the practice direction on interim measures will also be updated.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the Court's <a href="https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng-press?i=003-7796609-10812486">press release</a>, the Plenary Court has also decided about the following:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'• Disclosure of the identity of the judges who render the decisions on interim measure requests;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">• Maintaining the practice of providing reasons for Rule 39 decisions on an ad hoc basis and</div><div style="text-align: justify;">issuing press statements where the circumstances of the cases so require;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">• Issuing formal judicial decisions to be sent to the parties;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">• Maintaining the established practice of adjourning the examination of the requests for interim measures and requesting the parties to submit information in those circumstances where the situation is not extremely urgent and where the information that the applicants could submit to the Court was not sufficient to enable the Court to examine the request.'</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Article 39 currently reads as follows:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'1. The Chamber or, where appropriate, the President of the Section or a duty judge appointed pursuant to paragraph 4 of this Rule may, at the request of a party or of any other person concerned, or of their own motion, indicate to the parties any interim measure which they consider should be adopted in the interests of the parties or of the proper conduct of the proceedings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Where it is considered appropriate, immediate notice of the measure adopted in a particular case may be given to the Committee of Ministers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. The Chamber or, where appropriate, the President of the Section or a duty judge appointed pursuant to paragraph 4 of this Rule may request information from the parties on any matter connected with the implementation of any interim measure indicated.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. The President of the Court may appoint Vice-Presidents of Sections as duty judges to decide on requests for interim measures.'</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The proposal for the new text is the following:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'1. The Court may, in exceptional circumstances, whether at the request of a party or of any other person concerned, or of its own motion, indicate to the parties any interim measure which it considers should be adopted. Such measures, applicable in cases of imminent risk of irreparable harm to a Convention right, which, on account of its nature, would not be susceptible to reparation, restoration or adequate compensation, may be adopted where necessary in the interests of the parties or the proper conduct of the proceedings. The Court’s power to decide on requests for interim measures shall be exercised by duty judges appointed pursuant to paragraph 4 of this Rule or, where appropriate, the President of the Section, the Chamber, the President of the Grand Chamber, the Grand Chamber or the President of the Court.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Where it is considered appropriate, immediate notice of the measure adopted in a particular case may be given to the Committee of Ministers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. A duty judge appointed pursuant to paragraph 4 of this Rule or, where appropriate, the President of the Section, the Chamber, the President of the Grand Chamber, the Grand Chamber or the President of the Court may request information from the parties on any matter connected with the implementation of any interim measure indicated.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. The President of the Court shall appoint Vice-Presidents of Sections as duty judges to decide on requests for interim measures.'</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For more background information and the basics, please consult this <a href="https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/fs_interim_measures_eng">factsheet</a> developed by the Court's registry as well as this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e-_12HtuDc">video</a>. The Rules of Court themselves , information on several specific aspects, as well as translations in a number of languages, can be found on a dedicated page on the Court's <a href="https://www.echr.coe.int/rules-of-court">website</a>.</div></span>Antoine Buysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10338092996739251442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192253951257704432.post-35111211028099935492023-11-15T18:51:00.006+01:002023-11-15T19:04:17.202+01:00New Online Course 'Interplay between the ECHR and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights'<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfv2X1u3XrfoyiVKzq9u5AAwdcm-dW0Chck_TEWpKIDpdMwf3VMcJ-_SikHpJr6nVXDz7vWSxfRdJRGjGz6KL860bmUKUQrewz_yOXVLkdRH_V4EiNnn6gcRp1CLWsZ7PfbdE97SmrYFFO1oe5Sm_vjWjzHSebUnQhMfJIYgAD69Iq9TIGeEJrWXJ4b5g/s981/ECHREU_cover_981x810.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="981" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfv2X1u3XrfoyiVKzq9u5AAwdcm-dW0Chck_TEWpKIDpdMwf3VMcJ-_SikHpJr6nVXDz7vWSxfRdJRGjGz6KL860bmUKUQrewz_yOXVLkdRH_V4EiNnn6gcRp1CLWsZ7PfbdE97SmrYFFO1oe5Sm_vjWjzHSebUnQhMfJIYgAD69Iq9TIGeEJrWXJ4b5g/w200-h165/ECHREU_cover_981x810.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The HELP (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) Programme of the Council of Europe has launched the free online course '<a href="https://rm.coe.int/interplay-course-brief-english/1680ac3177">Introduction to Human Rights Protection in Europe - The Interplay between the ECHR and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights</a>'. This six-hour online course focuses on the protection of human rights under the system of the Council of Europe with the ECHR, and under the European Union with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. The course consists of an introductory module and four substantive modules. </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">A statement of accomplishment is obtained after completing the course. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Here is the outline of the course:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><b>Introductory Module: </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Information about the course </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Learning objectives </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Welcome videos</span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Module 1: Introduction to Human Rights Protection in Europe</span></b></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Pioneers of Europe</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• The Council of Europe (Conventions; Member States; key organs)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">• The European Union (evolution; EU institutions, bodies, offices, agencies; EU </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">accession to the ECHR)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Recap</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• The very different twins</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Knowledge check</span></div></div><div><b><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Module 2: Protection of Human Rights within the Council of Europe and the </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">European Union </span></b></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• The European Convention on Human Rights (introduction; rights and</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">freedoms; obligations; interpretation; implementation; supervision; execution)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">• The European Social Charter (introduction; characteristics; interpretation; </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">rights; monitoring; impact)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">• The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (sources of interpretation; level </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">of protection; rights and principles; scope of application; limitations; rationale </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">of Art 51; direct (vertical and horizontal) effect; who applies it?; beneficiaries; </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">access to CJEU)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• General points and comparative perspective</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Recap</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Knowledge check</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Module 3: Interplay </span></b></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">• Evolution of the relationship between the ECHR and the EU law (foundations; </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">journey towards recognition; convergence and interplay)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">• Interplay (how do national judges apply the ECHR, the ESC, the EU Charter and </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">national bills of rights?; how does the ECtHR monitor member states applying </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">the EU law when ECHR rights are invoked?; how can conflicting scenarios be </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">prevented and resolved?)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Knowledge check</span></div></div></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><b>Module 4: Practical Implications</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Raising an issue of violation of rights (how can rights protected by the ECHR and/or the EU Charter be invoked before courts?)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Jurisdiction of the ECtHR and the CJEU in respect of human rights violations</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• From national to European courts: preliminary rulings and advisory opinions</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Recap</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">• Knowledge check</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">The course is freely available in self-learning format on the <a href="https://help.elearning.ext.coe.int/course/view.php?id=6560">Council of Europe HELP platform</a>.</span></div><p></p>Matilda Radošhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306151213544560214noreply@blogger.com