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Yesterday, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly elected Ms Anna Adamska-Gallant as a judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Poland for a term of office of nine years. Ms Anna Adamska-Gallant is a Polish lawyer specializing in international criminal law and human rights. She has served as a judge for almost two

Last week, the plenary of the European Court of Human Rights elected from amongst its midst three judges to new positions. First off, a new Vice-President of the Court was elected: Judge Ivana Jelić, the judge elected in respect of Montenegro. She will start in this capacity on 1 November 2024. In addition, the Court elected

A new session of Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR is now live again! The session started on 7 September and runs for six weeks until 28 October 2024. Registration is open until 16 October. To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies

Last week the European Court of Human Rights launched a new ‘ECHR/EU’ page‘ on its Knowledge-Sharing Platform (ECHR-KS). On the platform, up-to-date data and analyses of developments in the Court’s case-law through specific Convention Articles/Transversal Themes are shared. The new page was launched on the occasion of the seminar ‘The articulation between the Convention and