Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has floated the idea of withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights. Five Polish human rights law scholars explain why this would be a dangerous move – and why the Convention remains vital for Poland: verfassungsblog.de/what-is-the-...

"The date on which the monarchy fell in 1918, Hitler staged his failed coup attempt in 1923, the Nazis and antisemitic mobs attacked synagogues and Jewish homes and businesses in 1938, and the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Nov 9 is known as the 'day of destiny' in Germany." DW www.dw.com/en/november-...

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years. Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇 🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR There are thousands more. #ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

📘 Today, the European Convention on Human Rights marks its 75th anniversary. It is available in more than 40 languages on the Court’s website. 🔗https://www.echr.coe.int/european-convention-on-human-rights

🗓️ 4 November marks the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights. But what is the Convention? 🟢 It is the heart of a system—unparalleled anywhere in the world—of collective responsibility for human rights protection. Read more ⬇️

Breaking EU rule of law protection news Late on Thursday, the NL Parliament, by majority, instructed the NL government to initiate *Article 259 TFEU State-to-State infringement proceedings against Slovakia* over its recent constitutional change to limit LGBTIQ-rights & to deny supremacy of EU law

Ever wondered what happened to Retained EU Law and Assimilated EU Law in the United Kingdom. Dr Ghosh, KC, will explain the current (confusing) UK case law. Please join the @eulegalstudies.bsky.social seminar in person or online.

Friday treat: this whole - Open Access - collection edited by @conormccormick.bsky.social, David Capper and Norma Dawson has a wonderful, eclectic mix of chapters to delight all those interested in the history of constitutional change.

Out now! 🐛🐖🐶 The Verfassungsbook “Animal Rights: The Role of the EU Charter” (edited by ESTER HERLIN-KARNELL & MATILDA ARVIDSSON) asks whether fundamental values like dignity, freedom or solidarity are for humans only, or if they should be extended to animals, too. 👉 verfassungsblog.de/books/

My piece for UKCLA on how much of the debate concerning human rights in the UK is about vibes... and wrestling. #ECHR #HRA ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/09/a...

‘None of this is being done in secret – the judgments are public – but the changes have barely registered. Judges, whether serving or retired, tend not to speak out. Barristers know on which side their bread is buttered.’ Conor Gearty on the Human Rights Act: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇 🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social

Starting this Sunday, the UK Conservatives will hold their annual party conference and possibly adopt a new flagship policy: withdrawal from the ECHR. That would legitimise the playbook of the far-right, warns ALICE DONALD (@alicedonald.bsky.social). verfassungsblog.de/badge-of-dishonour/

Shocked, shocked to discover that Lord Wolfson's report says exactly what Kemi Badenoch wanted it to say and finds no GFA impediment to the UK leaving the ECHR and that only sunlit policy uplands will result from doing so. A tissue of Conservative wish fulfilment: share.google/qsYHPBUGr3Ou...

For info, Lord Wolfson's Advice on UK Membership of the ECHR is available here (accompanied by a letter available from here www.instagram.com/p/DPbJYv-jY-2/) : www.conservatives.com/wolfson-fina...

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...