A new Explainer out from @aoifemod.bsky.social and me detailing the UK's ECHR commitments under the 1998 Agreement in response to recent speculation. It is short, because there is very little to say - the UK's obligations are evident on the B/GFA's plain text: caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...

What role does the ECHR play in the Belfast/Good Friday agreement? Find out: ukandeu.ac.uk/the-belfast-...

It is important to realise how outlandish it is to suggest that the UK leaving the ECHR does not undermine the B/GFA 1998. As @joellegrogan.bsky.social and @alicedonald.bsky.social point out, it would rip up an essential element of this peace agreement: ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...

The ECHR has been under threat from some in the UK for years; for more light than heat in this debate, these three links are excellent: explainer from @ukandeu.bsky.social; the Good Friday Agreement and the ECHR from @anuragdeb.bsky.social ; the Brexit deal and the ECHR by @stevepeers.bsky.social

"The legal position is therefore clear: yes there is provision for a state to leave the ECHR and the Refugee Convention. But doing so comes with both legal and political consequences." 🖊️ @cbarnard.bsky.social explains the impact leaving the ECHR would have on the UK ukandeu.ac.uk/leaving-the-...

*Brilliant*, as ever, by @profmarkelliott.bsky.social - but I fear the tabloid press/ Reform UK are simply not interested in debate, hence tactical positions adopted by ECHR's defenders? The developing domestic debate about the ECHR: Navigating two extremes publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/09/t...

In which I am not impressed by Suella Braverman’s plans for leaving the ECHR. open.substack.com/pub/georgepe...

The basis on which Farage tells RTE that there will be no problem changing GFA to remove ECHR reference is, unsurprisingly, spurious. Human Rights safeguards were a feature of the 1990s negotiations from the outset, they weren't a last minute thought: share.google/sh5iziocla5L...

The evasion of historical responsibility? JULIA DEHM (@juliadehm.bsky.social) on colonialism, temporality, and reparative justice in the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion. verfassungsblog.de/the-evasion-...

Publication day! ✨ Take a look inside our latest Verfassungsbook "Owning the Past: The Omnipresence of Divergent Historical Narratives in Law and Politics", edited by ANGELIKA NUßBERGER and PAULA RHEIN-FISCHER! Available as digital edition (Open Access 🔓) and in print! 👉 verfassungsblog.de/books/

The European Convention on Human Rights entered into force on this day in 1953. The convention has improved people’s lives, in many different ways, across the continent. Here are more than 200 examples: www.coe.int/ECHR There are thousands more. #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

Russia, the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights: A Troubled Membership and Its Legacy | by Ed Bates, Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou and Andrew Forde

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Book Discussion: Russia, the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights | by Mary Guest

If you want something that is not instrumentalised legalese on the GFA's human rights commitments, try this: The Implications of the Good Friday Agreement for UK Human-Rights Reform by C. R. G. Murray, Aoife O'Donoghue, Ben T. C. Warwick :: SSRN share.google/GRLPk9TLsBwQ...

"The legal position is therefore clear: yes there is provision for a state to leave the ECHR and the Refugee Convention. But doing so comes with both legal and political consequences." @cbarnard.bsky.social on whether it is possible in legal terms to leave the ECHR 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/leaving-the-...

The German Federal Constitutional Court has been asked to rule on whether the German constitution contradicts a CJEU judgment on religious discrimination. Analysis by Jonas Seibold - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/08/holy...

First case before the European Court of Human Rights brought on behalf of a natural body (with legal personality) - www.linkedin.com/posts/monica...

The tabloid press is on the case already... It's going to be a long few years for EU-ECHR aficionados. www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

I've updated my collection of Brexit law sources - in light of the reset plus other recent developments - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/p/guide-to-b...

On this day in 1862, Ida B. Wells was born. She became a journalist, civil rights champion, and anti-lynching crusader. Wells lobbied Congress to pass anti-lynching legislation, but Congress did not make lynching a federal hate crime until 2022. #WeTheMen www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

In a new policy brief for @delorsberlin.bsky.social, @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social, @pzlotnik.bsky.social, @llaube.bsky.social, @dansaracino.bsky.social and I look into how the EU has been dealing with what it calls "instrumentalised" migration. 🧵 (1/3) www.delorscentre.eu/en/publicati...

“Don’t Bother Quitting, Because You’re Fired”: Russia’s Expulsion from the Council of Europe is the new article that I co-authored with V Tzevelekos. Here, we examine whether the failure to invite Russia to withdraw from the Council of Europe. We don’t believe it does brill.com/view/journal...

History of EU law - New book of interest out soon - 'The History of European Union Law Constitutional Practice, 1950 to 1993' www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...

What is the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine? ➡️ A proposed independent tribunal, to be established within the framework of the Council of Europe 🧵1/3

Hungary breached ECHR re collective expulsions, risk of torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment, and effective remedies with its "embassy procedure" limiting the ability to apply for asylum - CJEU had already ruled this was also a breach of EU law

The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly has elected Hugh Mercer as the UK’s next judge at the European Court of Human Rights👇 🔗 pace.coe.int/en/news/9943... #Democracy #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #ECHR @coe.int @pace.coe.int @echr.coe.int

Should EU law, or national law, take precedence in the event of a conflict? Analysis by Dr Benedikt Riedl, in two parts Part 1 - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/nati... Part 2 - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/nati...

Ahead of Juneteenth, activists met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to urge them to continue the push for federal #reparations legislation. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

"S.S. v. Italy offered a rare chance to test a critical hypothesis: that the Court’s jurisprudence, far from curbing violence, helps script it. The result is not just confirmation, but demonstration." from @itamann.bsky.social - www.ejiltalk.org/s-s-and-othe...

"the Justice Secretary’s framing of matters is potentially troubling, given the implicit premise that the security of human rights is, at least to some extent, ultimately a function of shifting public opinion."

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Check out our new @globalcit.bsky.social report on The Global State of Citizenship! > Find out more about how citizenship is regulated 🌎 > Focus on gender equality, immigrant inclusion, security of status > Explore new data on regulations in 191 countries up to 2024 Online now at 🔗 loom.ly/JeESa3g

Thank you @stevepeers.bsky.social for publishing my analysis on Advocate General Capeta's recent Opinion in WS and Others v Frontex on #Eulawanalysis. May the #CourtofJustice follow the Advocate General's well-reasoned recommendations!

In light of recent negotiations, @reuters.com has put together a breakdown of Ukraine's and Russia's peace terms and views on post-war #reparations. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

“For the sole reason of being born mixed-race” In a historic first, a Brussels court ordered the government to pay compensation for the racial segregation of mixed‐race children during its colonisation of the Congo. SOFIA VANDENBOSCH explains the repercussions. verfassungsblog.de/belgium-cong...

Lithuania has asked the International Court of Justice to declare Belarus' migrant instrumentalisation a violation of the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants. DANA SCHMALZ unpacks the merits of Lithuania's argument and highlights a missing piece. verfassungsblog.de/migrant-inst...

Many thanks to @verfassungsblog.de for asking me to comment on the Danish-Italian public letter to the ECtHR. 1. I argue that this is neither new nor unprecedented but 2. it is deeply troubling as it aims to strip away human rights protections from migrants ➡️ verfassungsblog.de/letter-human...

A French court says a British woman should be able to vote in EU and local elections there, despite #Brexit👇 🔗 www.connexionfrance.com/news/briton-... via www.connexionfrance.com The #RightToVote is protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, it said. #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

The newest editorial comment by the former president of the European Court of Human Rights, Siofra O’Leary is available on our website. It contains a lot of food for thought for those who are interested in the development of the Strasbourg system of human rights protection: brill.com/view/journal...

A warm welcome to Mattias Guyomar, judge elected in respect of #France, who takes office today as President of the Court. He succeeds Marko Bošnjak, who concluded his term as judge elected in respect of #Slovenia & Court President.

A French Court has ordered the restoration of European Parliament voting rights to a UK citizen living in France, stating that "her exclusion [from EP voting] would be an “excessive infringement of voting rights”.

⚡️ ⚖️ Precedent-setting #climatelitigation victory this morning in #SaulvsRWE 🙌 🎉 A victory for #climatejustice and corporate accountability 🧵🧑‍⚖️ A short thread to unpack the key legal principles reaffirmed by the judges of the Higher Court of Hamm 🇩🇪 ⬇️ 1/8

France is dismantling its principle of jus soli by restricting access to French nationality in Mayotte, its 101st overseas department. MARIE-LAURE BASILIEN-GAINCHE on jus soli's constitutional status and the 'migrantisation' of a humanitarian crisis. verfassungsblog.de/dismantling-...

"A naval court in Greece has charged 17 coastguards over the deadliest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea for a decade" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lehtimaja (Arbor), 1908 by Ellen Thesleff, pioneering Nordic painter and one of Finland’s first expressionists #WomensArt

"In a very remarkable initiative, the heads of government and state of no less than nine European states together published an open letter yesterday calling for a shift in interpreting the ECHR in the field of migration" www.echrblog.com/2025/05/nine...

“Academic freedom is undoubtedly protected by the right to freedom of expression” – PACE Rapporteur Azadeh Rojhan condemns the 18-year sentence handed to Talysh historian Igbal Abilov in #Azerbaijan, urging his release and a review of charges. 🔗 More: pace.coe.int/en/news/9898...

Highly relevant climate law development- thank you Prof @yusrasuedi.bsky.social for such a thoughtful @ejiltalk.bsky.social post.

"The flaws with the UK’s Rwanda policy were so huge, they must have been visible from outer space. But were they visible to the European Union?" Really helpful analysis from @stevepeers.bsky.social on the latest development in EU Asylum policy.