From Denial to Accountability
12.05.2025
Sissy Katsoni
Mariana Gkliati
A long-denied reality by the Greek authorities is now on court record. Through its judgement in A.R.E. v Greece the European Court of Human Rights (Court) has confirmed the longstanding...
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Will the Swiss Grandmas Travel the World?
12.05.2025
Liz Hicks
Hannah Leoni Stahl
Aylin Yildiz Noorda
Anticipation has run high for what some call the of the KlimaSeniorinnen ruling delivered on 9 April 2024. While it is too early to definitively assess the KlimaSeniorinnen ruling’s impact...
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On European Human Rights, Frames, and Critique
25.04.2025
Esra Demir-Gürsel
Jens T. Theilen
Daniela Rau
Dear Esra, dear Jens, thank you for accepting the invitation to share insights into your research on the framing and critique of European Human Rights Law with us. You are...
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Democracy on Trial
13.03.2025
Toni Selkälä
Shorena Nikoleishvili
Regular elections constitute a cornerstone of democratic societies. In most states, elections are timed, organised, and administered in accordance with detailed electoral legislation. The right to cast a vote and...
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- Women in International Law Vol. 4
Gender, Climate, and the Illusion of Neutrality
05.03.2025
Dilruba Begüm Kartepe
Mariia Zheltukha
This blog post examines the stance of the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’, ‘the Court’) in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland through a gender lens, questioning whether...
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Saving the Climate in Strasbourg? – A Critical Look at the European Court of Human Rights’ Climate Cases
07.07.2024
On 9th April 2024, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights issued decisions in three significant climate change cases. In this edition of the Current Issues in...
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ECtHR Favours 1.5-Degree Limit
05.06.2024
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland that the protection of life and health under Article 8 ECHR against climate...
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Racialised Climate Justice
01.06.2024
9 April 2024 was a big day for international lawyers. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rendered judgment in three major climate change cases. One of these much-anticipated decisions,...
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- Book Review
- Symposium
- Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries
Author’s Response to the Reviews
31.05.2024
I would like to thank Elena Abrusci, Maria Louiza Deftou, Vassilis Tzevelekos, Lea Raible, Mariana Ferolla Vallandro do Valle and Rick Lawson who contributed to the blog symposium by engaging...
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- Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries
Oasis or Mirage?
30.05.2024
Into the Desert Paradoxically, the longest chapter in Vladislava Stoyanova’s book on positive obligations is devoted to the desert: the grim and arid lands extra muros. Where States operate beyond...
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- Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries
Climate Change and Positive Obligations in the ECHR
29.05.2024
Stoyanova’s book, Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries, rigorously analyses positive obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), proposing a characterisation...
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- Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries
In Dialogue with Stoyanova
28.05.2024
Vladislava Stoyanova’s recently published monograph on positive human rights obligations within the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) regime consolidates various earlier seminal papers of hers on the same topic...
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- Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries
Delineating the Boundaries of Substantive Positive Obligations
28.05.2024
Given the duality of human rights law, encompassing not only the corpus of human rights proclaimed in treaties but also the necessary specification of the relative obligations of their holders,...
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- Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries
Positive Obligations, Deference and Subsidiarity
27.05.2024
International human rights law and its enforcement systems rely on the collaboration of states to respect their obligations and protect rights. It follows that even when regional human rights courts...
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The A Sud v. Italy Case after the KlimaSeniorinnen Judgment
24.05.2024
Just as climate litigation is on the rise globally, increasingly more climate cases are brought before Italian courts. On February 26, 2024, the Civil Tribunal of Rome has rendered its...
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UK-Rwanda Deal Pushed Through Parliament
24.05.2024
Jack Provan
Nadine Grünhagen
On 25 April 2024, the long-awaited Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 (Safety of Rwanda Act) received royal assent in the United Kingdom (UK). This followed months of...
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Who Cares About Public Interest?
15.05.2024
The preceding year presented formidable challenges for freedom of expression and affiliated freedoms in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BaH): an attack on LGBT+ community members, the draft statute on online disinformation...
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Klimaklagen
06.05.2024
„Klimaschutz jetzt Menschenrecht“. So formuliert es ein Kommentar in dem bekannten deutschen Rechtsmagazin LTO. Und das beschreibt tatsächlich ziemlich genau das, was der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR) am 09....
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Whether “Absolute” Means Absolute
23.04.2024
On 26 February 2024, the Armenian Cassation Court published a decision following its earlier requested advisory opinion from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the applicability of statutes...
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Resisting the Allure of Future Generations’ Rights
19.04.2024
On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered much-anticipated judgments in three emblematic climate change cases: Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and others v. Switzerland, Carême v. France,...
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Who’s Afraid of Human Rights in War? (Part II)
18.04.2024
In Part I of this response, I addressed the background of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the fact pattern of Narayan and Others v. Azerbaijan before the European Court of Human...
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Is the Harmonisation of IHL and IHRL Eroding?
18.03.2024
Editor's note: a two-part rebuttal to this piece by Mischa Gureghian Hall has been published on Völkerrechtsblog (see Part I and Part II). On 19 December 2023, the European...
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Equality as Integral
08.11.2023
Duarte Agostinho, the ‘biggest-yet climate case’ before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has, among other things, framed climate change as an issue of inequality....
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Why a Court Alone Won’t Bring Us to Heaven
12.10.2023
On 27 September 2023, the case of Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others (no. 39371/20) was heard by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human...
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- Bofaxe
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- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Towards a Feminist Interpretation of the ECHR’s Provisions on Access to Abortion
21.09.2023
While applications regarding the incompatibility of deadly restrictive abortion policies with the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) are piling up before the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’, ‘Court’),...
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- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Border Dialectics: Progress, Regress, and Resistance
20.09.2023
Received knowledge about the protection of migrants in international law tells a story of progress. A story of expanded refugee definitions, complementary protection, and extraterritorial obligations. Yet a counternarrative has...
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Not You Again!
07.09.2023
Mass surveillance has been a recurring issue before courts around the globe, including the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In the last cases brought before the CJEU,...
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Protecting Human Rights During the Climate Crisis
04.09.2023
Pranav Ganesan
Helen Keller
This blogpost was inspired by a question that arose in an international climate case concerning emissions reductions obligations under human rights law. During the oral proceedings of KlimaSeniorinnen and Others...
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Who Is Responsible for Ensuring Human Rights in Global Sport?
04.08.2023
In Semenya v. Switzerland, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, the Court) has weighed in on the issue of sex testing in sport. The decision comes after a series...
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International Problems Require International Answers
12.07.2023
This year, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is expected to deal with several climate change cases, through which the complainants seek to hold their countries of origin responsible...
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Inhuman and Degrading ‘Hotspots’ at the EU Borders
27.04.2023
Kilian Schayani
Max Maydell
On 4 April 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) published its judgment A.D. v. Greece, for the first time condemning the living conditions in the so-called ‘Hotspots’ on...
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An Unneighborly Gift in Times of Need
20.04.2023
In February 2023, the news of devastating deadly earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria shook the globe. The horrifying effects of these earthquakes led to a death toll that has surpassed...
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A Court, Not a Policymaker
31.03.2023
On Wednesday, under the eyes of great public interest, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) opened a chapter to what may become the ECtHR’s greatest...
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The Future of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Human Rights
02.03.2023
Over the last decades, the regulation of gender and sexuality has undergone major changes in Europe. From Athens to Reykjavik, same-sex unions are legal reality. States must no longer require...
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The Future of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Human Rights
09.02.2023
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has a long history of adjudicating cases concerning sexual orientation and gender identity. Many of those cases involved the controversial interpretive approach known...
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Die „Bundesnotbremse II“ aus dem Blickwinkel der EMRK
02.02.2023
Die bundesweiten Schulschließungen in Deutschland infolge der Corona-Pandemie im Jahr 2021, die Gegenstand des Beschlusses des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 19. November 2021 waren, liegen nun dem Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR)...
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- Racial Profiling in Germany
Racist Police Practices
15.12.2022
In 2012, Biplab Basu and his daughter rode a train from Prague to Berlin. The train had just passed the Czech Republic, when two German federal police officers got on...
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- Racial Profiling in Germany
Race and Empire in International Law
14.12.2022
The prohibition of racial discrimination has played a marginal role within the global human rights agenda. This corresponds to the subordination and neglect of ‘race’ in how international legal scholars...
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- Racial Profiling in Germany
Human Rights Standards for Accountability and Effective Remedies
13.12.2022
In Germany, for a long time, racial profiling was regarded as a problem that exists in other countries. However, in recent years more victims of racial discrimination have brought cases...
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Rewriting als Methode
14.10.2022
Es war zur Jahrtausendwende, als das Rewriting in der Luft lag. Und das tut es heute wieder. Rewriting steht hier für die Methode, Gerichtsentscheidungen aus spezifischen Perspektiven und Regeln neu...
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The Principle of Effectiveness
10.10.2022
Daniel Rietiker
Sofie Steller
In his latest book, Georgios A. Serghides, Judge and Section Vice-President at the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, the ‘Court’), delves into the interpretation and application of the European...
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Out of Sight, out of Mind?
27.06.2022
On June 14th 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued an interim measure against the United Kingdom, effectively halting a deportation flight at the 11th hour that would...
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