New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 6, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The New Agreement on the EU Accession to the ECHR: Can It Succeed?
• Vassilis P Tzevelekos, The EU’s Accession to the ECHR: The Future of the Revised Draft Accession Agreement and a Call to End the Bosphorus Doctrine
• Christos Giakoumopoulos & David Milner, Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights: A View From Inside the Council of Europe
• Paul Gragl, The New Draft Agreement on the EU Accession to the ECHR: Overcoming Luxembourg’s Threshold
• Tobias Lock, Implications of the Revised Draft EU Accession Agreement for the ECHR
• Jörg Polakiewicz & Irene Suominen-Picht, Now or Never – One Year After the Closure of the Second Negotiation Round for the EU’s Accession to the ECHR: Will the Agreement Reached Suffice to Make Accession (Finally) a Reality?

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 5, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, 'KlimaSeniorinnen Revolution': The New Approach to Standing
• Julia Laffranque, KlimaSeniorinnen – Climate Justice and Beyond
• George Letsas, The European Court’s Legitimacy After KlimaSeniorinnen
• Vladislava Stoyanova, Correlativity Between Human Rights and Positive Obligations and Its Role for the Execution of Judgments Delivered by the European Court of Human Rights
• Pieter Cannoot, Y v France: Intersex Rights in the Age of Subsidiarity

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 5, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: ‘Heads and Tails’: Admissibility and Remedies at the European Court of Human Rights
• Janneke Gerards, Antoine Buyse, & Mads Andenas, ‘Heads and Tails’: Admissibility and Remedies at the European Court of Human Rights
• Marco Fisicaro, Novel Approaches to Interim Protection Against Systemic Threats to the Rule of Law
• Mathieu Leloup, The Question of Non-Independent Apex Courts as Effective Remedies to be Exhausted
• Lorenzo Acconciamessa, Two Birds With One Stone? Governments’ Unilateral Declarations Before the ECtHR and the Reopening of Domestic Proceedings
• Anne Bombay, The Court’s Correcting Mechanism: ‘General Measures’ as a Judicial Remedy to Address Legislative Inaction?
• Joseph Finnerty, How Should the European Court of Human Rights Remedy Violations of Article 18 ECHR? The Case for Remedial Realignment
• Corina Heri, Too Big to Remedy? What Climate Cases Tell Us About the Remedial Role of Human Rights

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 5, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Vassilis P Tzevelekos, On Mastic Trees, the ECHR, and the ICCPR
• Anja Seibert-Fohr, Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee: Two Actors with a Common Mission
• Yuval Shany, Catching Up: The European Court of Human Rights Approximates its Approach to Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Over Digital Surveillance to That of the Human Rights Committee
• Vasilka Sancin, The ECHR and the ICCPR: A Human Rights-Based Approach to the Protection of the Environment and the Climate System
• Sjors Ligthart, Towards a Human Right to Psychological Continuity? Reflections on the Rights to Personal Identity, Self-Determination, and Personal Integrity
• Katie Pentney, The Right of Access to ‘Reliable’ Information Under Article 10 echr: From Meagre Beginnings to New Frontiers

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 5, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The ‘Special’ Relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Convention of Human Rights
• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, The United Kingdom and the European Convention on Human Rights: Together Until the End?
• Merris Amos, Reality Amidst Rhetoric: Implementation of ECtHR Judgments in the UK
• Ed Bates, UK Withdrawal From the echr (‘BrECHRit’): From Taboo to Tenable?
• Frederick Cowell, Locking in Human Rights: An Exploration of the Barriers to echr Withdrawal
• Lewis Graham, Boldness, Caution, Avoidance: Recent Cases Against the UK Before the European Court of Human Rights
• Paul Johnson, UK Withdrawal From the European Convention on Human Rights: A Disaster for lgbt People
• Natasa Mavronicola, Facilitating (Further) Inhumanity: On the Prospect of Losing Article 3 echr, a Vital Guarantee for the Under-Protected
• Valsamis Mitsilegas & Elspeth Guild, The UK and the echr After Brexit: The Challenge of Immigration Control
• Patricia Popelier, What’s Cooking? General Measures in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
• Stuart Wallace, Military Operations and Withdrawal From the European Convention on Human Rights

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 4, no. 4, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Evidentiary System of the European Court of Human Rights in Critical Perspective
• Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, The Evidentiary System of the European Court of Human Rights in Critical Perspective
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Grażyna Baranowska, Exposing Covert Border Enforcement: Why Failing to Shift the Burden of Proof in Pushback Cases is Wrong

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 4, no. 3, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Reforming the Election Process of Judges of the European Court of Human Rights
• Hans-Jörg Behrens, The Status of Judges: Intergovernmental Work on the Evaluation of Issues Relating to the Judges of the echr
• Paul Mahoney, The Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election to the European Court of Human Rights
• Helen Keller, How to Improve Independence and Impartiality of Judges of the European Court of Human Rights
• Joëlle Trampert, The Export of Goods Used for Torture and the Applicability of Article 3 echr
• Mugambi Jouet, The Abolition and Retention of Life Without Parole in Europe: A Comparative and Historical Perspective

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 4, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Vassilis P Tzevelekos, Immunities Barring the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine: The Contribution of the ECtHR Case Law
• Rosanne van Alebeek, Larissa van den Herik, & Cedric Ryngaert, Prosecuting Russian Officials for the Crime of Aggression: What About Immunities?
• Tobias Mortier, Reprehensible or Legitimate Aims? A Proposal for a New Approach to Article 18 echr in Light of its Predominance Test
• Carl Emilio Lewis, The European Court of Human Rights and its Search for Common Values

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 4, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Role of the President of the European Court of Human Rights
• Robert Spano, Primus Inter Pares, but More Pares than Primus! – Recollections of a Former President of the European Court of Human Rights
• Mathieu Leloup, Not Just a Simple Civil Servant: The Right of Access to a Court of Judges in the Recent Case Law of the ECtHR
• Alessio Sardo, Hate Speech: A Pragmatic Assessment of the European Court of Human Rights’ Jurisprudence

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 3, no. 4, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou & Vassilis P Tzevelekos, A Thorny Road to Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Ukraine and the European Court of Human Rights
• Ganna Yudkivska, Ex Aequo et Bono – Some Post-Mandate Reflections
• Mykola Gnatovskyy, The Strasbourg Court and Ukraine: De Jure Pacis Ad Jus Belli
• Janneke Gerards, Article 53 echr and Minimum Protection by the European Court of Human Rights
• Paolo Cavaliere, The Truth in Fake News: How Disinformation Laws Are Reframing the Concepts of Truth and Accuracy on Digital Platforms
• Koen Lemmens, Freedom of Expression on the Internet after Sanchez v France: How the European Court of Human Rights Accepts Third-Party ‘Censorship’

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 3, no. 3, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Vassilis P Tzevelekos & Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, The Judicial Discretion of the European Court of Human Rights: The Years of Plenty, and the Lean Years
• Françoise Tulkens, Judicial Activism v Judicial Restraint: Practical Experience of This (False) Dilemma at the European Court of Human Rights
• George Tsebelis, What Determines the Judicial Discretion of the European Court of Human Rights?
• Lize Glas & Jasper Krommendijk, A Strasbourg Story of Swords and Shields: National Courts’ Motives to Request an Advisory Opinion from the ECtHR Under Protocol 16
• Jeremy Letwin, A Utilitarian Account of Article 3 echr
• Sarah Ganty, The Double-Edged ECtHR Lăcătuş Judgment on Criminalisation of Begging: Da Mihi Elimo Sinam Propter Amorem Dei

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 3, no. 2, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou & Vassilis P Tzevelekos, The Aggression Against Ukraine and the Effectiveness of Inter-state Cases in Case of War
• Lucas Lixinski, On the Circumscribed and Problematic Resurgence of Inter-State Human Rights Cases
• Liv N Henningsen, The Emerging Anti-Stereotyping Principle under Article 14 ECHR: Towards a Multidimensional and Intersectional Approach to Equality
• Paul Gragl, Kant and Strasbourg on Mandatory Vaccinations
• Kushtrim Istrefi & Cedric Ryngaert, Makuchyan and Minasyan v Azerbaijan and Hungary: Novel Questions of State Responsibility, Presidential Pardon, and Due Diligence of Sentencing Transfer Meet in a Rare Case of the Right to Life

Panel Discussion: Minimalism vs. Maximalism? Challenges and Future Directions in the Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights

On June 8, 2022, Eva Brems, Corina Heri, Jens T. Theilen, and Natasa Mavronicola will hold an online panel discussion on “Minimalism vs. Maximalism? Challenges and Future Directions in the Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights.” Registration is here.

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 3, no. 1, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Vassilis P. Tzevelekos & Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Climate Change: The World and the ECtHR in Unchartered Waters
• Tim Eicke, Climate Change and the Convention: Beyond Admissibility
• Ole W. Pedersen, Any Role for the echr When it Comes to Climate Change?
• Helen Keller & Abigail D Pershing, Climate Change in Court: Overcoming Procedural Hurdles in Transboundary Environmental Cases
• Aikaterini Tsampi, The European Court of Human Rights and (Framework Convention on) Tobacco Control: A Relationship that Goes up in Smoke?
• Paul Johnson & Silvia Falcetta, The Inclusion of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Relationships Education: Faith-Based Objections and the European Convention on Human Rights
• Nikos Vogiatzis, The Second Advisory Opinion by the Strasbourg Court under Protocol 16 A Contextual Analysis

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 2, no. 1, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou & Vassilis P Tzevelekos, Interim Measures: Are Some Opportunities Worth Missing?
• Başak Çali, Autocratic Strategies and the European Court of Human Rights
• Armen Harutyunyan, The Future of the European Court of Human Rights in the Era of Radical Democracy
• Philip Leach, On Inter-State Litigation and Armed Conflict Cases in Strasbourg
• Eva Hauksdóttir, Restricting Freedom of Expression for Religious Peace: On the echr’s Approach to Blasphemy
• Jeremy Letwin, Why Completeness and Coherence Matter for the European Court of Human Rights

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 1, no. 2, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Vassilis P Tzevelekos & Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Normal as Usual? Human Rights in Times of covid-19
• Wolfgang Benedek, Are the Tools of the Council of Europe Sufficient to Protect Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law from Backsliding?
• Ineta Ziemele, Liberal Values, Covid-19 and the Judiciary
• Mikael Rask Madsen & Robert Spano, Authority and Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights: Interview with Robert Spano, President of the European Court of Human Rights
• Conall Mallory, A Traffic-Light System of State Arguments before the European Court of Human Rights
• Janneke Gerards, Abstract and Concrete Reasonableness Review by the European Court of Human Rights
• Elif Erken, The Participation of Non-Governmental Organisations and National Human Rights Institutions in the Execution of Judgments of the Strasbourg Court: Exploring Rule 9 Communications at the Committee of Ministers

Inaugural Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The inaugural issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 1, no. 1, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou & Vassilis P Tzevelekos, The Conscience of Europe that Landed in Strasbourg: A Circle of Life of the European Court of Human Rights
• Eva Brems, Key Challenges for the ECHR System: Protecting and Empowering Institutions, Human Rights Defenders and Minorities
• Angelika Nussberger, The European Court of Human Rights at Sixty – Challenges and Perspectives
• Ed Bates, Strasbourg’s Integrationist Role, or the Need for Self-restraint?
• Christos Rozakis, The European Convention on Human Rights as a Tool of European Integration
• Corina Heri, Loyalty, Subsidiarity, and Article 18 echr: How the ECtHR Deals with Mala Fide Limitations of Rights
• Daniel Rietiker, The European Court of Human Rights and FIFA: Current Issues and Potential Challenges
• Natasa Mavronicola, Bouyid v Belgium: The ‘Minimum Level of Severity’ and Human Dignity’s Role in Article 3 ECHR

New Journal: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

An announcement of a new journal: the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review:

The ECHR Law Review (ECLR) is a new law review published by BRILL and devoted exclusively to the legal regime of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Its editors-in-chief are Dr K. Dzehtsiarou and Dr V.P. Tzevelekos. The editorial and advisory boards include world leading scholars and practitioners in the law of the ECHR. One of the missions of the journal is to connect law and practice, and explore the ECHR from a multi-disciplinary perspective. ECLR will be publishing legal scholarship on the protection of fundamental human rights within the ECHR framework and on its implications for other regional human rights regimes. It is a forum for, inter alia, international law, comparative (constitutional) law, human rights law, and philosophy of law analysis of the practice and procedures of the ECHR regime. While favouring legal (doctrinal, theoretical and philosophical) analysis, ECLR also publishes multi-disciplinary works at the crossroads of law, history, political science and economics. It is open to all methods and schools of thought, including, comparative, doctrinal, quantitative and economic analysis of (case) law. ECLR accepts submissions of longer articles (up to 18000 words), case comments (up to 10000 words) and book reviews. Manuscripts should be submitted through this link. More information, including instructions to authors, is available here. Twitter: @LawECHR