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  • Vera Wriedt

The Right to Nationality: The Conservative Stance of the European Court of Human Rights in Contrast to its Inter-American and African Counterparts 

December 16, 2025

By Dr. Vera Wriedt *** Between the 12th and the 22nd of December, Strasbourg Observers is hosting a blog symposium entitled ‘The Role of the European Court of Human Rights: Progressive, Conservative, or Both?‘The introduction to the symposium can be found here. In addition to this post from Vera Wriendt, the symposium also includes contributions […]

  • Guest Blogger

Usmanov v. Russia: a confusing turn in the right direction?

January 22, 2021

By Louise Reyntjens (Leuven Centre for Public Law, KULeuven) On the 22nd of December 2020, the Strasbourg Court delivered its latest judgment in its case law on citizenship deprivation, a sensitive issue the Court is increasingly confronted with. Ever since the “European war on terror” has been declared, governments have rediscovered citizenship deprivation as a […]

  • Guest Blogger

Nationality and Statelessness Before the European Court of Human Rights: A landmark judgment but what about Article 3 ECHR?

May 16, 2018

By Dr. Hélène Lambert (Professor of Law at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Professor of International Law at the University of Westminster in London, United Kingdom) Introduction Two years ago, following the judgment of the Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights in Ramadan v. Malta, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour called on the Court to […]