By Matilda Radoš* On 17 January 2024, Ireland submitted a new inter-state application (no. 1859/24) against the United Kingdom before the European Court of Human Rights under Article 33 ECHR. The case concerns the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023, adopted by the United Kingdom on 18 September 2023. The objective of the act is to deal with the legacy of the violent conflict in Northern Ireland that took place between 1 January 1966 and 10 April 1998, known as ‘the Troubles’, which led to the deaths of over 3600 people and the torture of many others. The act provi ..read more

by Dragoș Călin, Judge and  co-president of the Romanian Judges’ Forum Association     Introduction In the case no.16915/21, Danileţ v. Romania, the European Court of Human Rights held on February 20, 2024, by a majority (four votes to three), that there had been a violation of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the sanction imposed on the judge for Facebook posts concerning matters of public interest infringed his freedom of expression.   The case concerns the limits of freedom of expression in the situation of a judge who, at the time of the fact ..read more

by Antoine Buyse and Kushtrim Istrefi This morning, the European Court of Human Rights issued its Grand Chamber decisions and judgment in three keenly awaited climate change cases. Two cases were declared inadmissible, but the Swiss grandmothers (Klimaseniorinnen) won their case in one crucial respect: the Court found a violation of their right to private life under article 8 ECHR. Although the rejection of most cases and complaints is disappointing, yet was expected, probably much more importantly even is the principled step that the Court has taken to for the first time explicitly acknowle ..read more

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The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2024) has been published, which includes a symposium. - partly comparable with a special issue - on the theme of 'The European Court of Human Rights and the Theoretical Crisis of Human Rights'. In addition, it includes also another ECHR-related article. Here is the list with abstracts: * Bosko Tripkovic and Alain Zysset, ‘Uncovering the Nature of ECHR Rights: An Analytical and Methodological Framework’, Human Rights Law Review (2024):   ‘How does the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) understand th ..read more

The School of Law and Social Justice of the University of Liverpool will be organizing its second summer school 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. The lecturers include researchers as well as practitioners. This is the abstract of the contents: ''On 5 May 1949, the Statute of the Council of Europe was signed in London establishing the organisatio ..read more

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 The 3 Regional Human Rights Courts in Context - Justice That Cannot Be Taken for Granted, 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: 'At specific moments in the history of Africa, Europe, and Latin America, each region decided to create supranational jurisdictions to ..read more

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 écureuils (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 Viard-Seifert and Others v. France (application no. 6024/24) they asked to Court as an interim measure to se ..read more

The University of Grenoble-Alpes is organising the workshop 'The Council of Europe: How to move forward after 75 years? The past, present and future of an international organisation in its seventies' in December 2024, with Anca Ailinca as convener. 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: '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 ..read more

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 'The soul of Europe in the balance? Subsidiarity and human rights in the EU and the ECHR'. The research presentation will be given by Andreas Føllesdal (University of Oslo) and will be chaired by Joseph Finnerty (Hertie School). Here is a short description of the event: '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 expec ..read more