February 27, 2018
By Leonie Huijbers (PhD Candidate, Utrecht University, the Netherlands) With the publication of the list of priorities for the Danish Chairmanship in November 2017, it became publicly clear that the Danes would push for yet another debate on the future of the Convention system. According to the Danish Chairmanship, such a debate is needed because […]
February 25, 2018
By Janneke Gerards (professor of fundamental rights law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands) & Sarah Lambrecht (affiliated researcher, Research Group Government and Law, UAntwerp, Belgium and law clerk at the Belgian Constitutional Court) It is a well-known fact that the ECHR system of fundamental rights protection is almost continually under construction. Since the major overhaul of […]