Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouAlexander Horne @legalmusings.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I’ll be speaking, alongside Lord Wolfson KC and Professor Vernika Fikfak, at a panel event on reform of the ECHR at Liverpool University on Thursday 4 June. Full details (including how to register) can be found below. 242
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouAlexander Horne @legalmusings.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Many thanks to @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social for proposing the event and Tyrone Steele for agreeing to moderate. I am very much looking forward to visiting Liverpool for the first time. 121
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 02/10/2025New and highly topical paper on @echr.coe.int and climate litigation in our advance access. 061
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 26/08/2025The newest editorial note from on of our editors-in-chief Vassilis Tzevelekos who asks us to think if the ECHR failed us? In this thought provoking piece he engages with two guest editorials by Judge Pavli and Nils Muznieks. The editorial piece is available in open access. brill.com/downloadpdf/... 041
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Our newest guest editorial note from Judge Darian Pavli expanding on his ideas from Novaya Gazeta v Russia: brill.com/view/journal... (open access) 031
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025The UK is expanding the use of live facial recognition technology. This can be a problem from the point of view of @echr.coe.int as this is an interference with the right to privacy under Article 8. The case Glukhin v Russia is a reference point here. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comGovernment expands police use of live facial recognition vansThe Home Office says the technology helps locate suspects but civil liberties groups warn of heightened surveillance. 132
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Our newest guest editorial is by Nils Muznieks - the former @coe.int Human Rights Commissioner reflecting on his time in office. It is insightful, original and full of vision. It is behind the paywall for now but it will be in open access when the issue is published online. brill.com/view/journal... 153
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 07/08/2025While most people are taking their well deserved summer breaks we keep producing excellent research on @echr.coe.int This time it is a paper by Adam Krzywon looking at defamation. It will be a part of our upcoming special issue on prevention of democratic decay. brill.com/view/journal... 041
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 14/07/2025@tomswarbrick.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk discussed the issue of letting a person into the UK from Gaza for med treatment. This is a decision of UK courts and has nothing to do with the European Court. The mantra that reform UK keeps reiterating about foreign judgments is a pure manipulation here. 020
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 05/07/2025“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... 051
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouPaolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 02/07/2025The selectiveness in this piece, including in the characterisation of the ECtHR case law, is shocking, especially for a self-identified 'legal historian'. But my main question is: how can anyone from the 'left' see what's happening in the US and think 'I'd very much like some of that here, please?' 43111
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Our newest case comment looks at Executief Van De Moslims Van België v Belgium. In this case @echr.coe.int for the first time considered animal’s welfare as a relevant consideration in the freedom of religion cases. Excellent comment by Giulio Fedele. brill.com/view/journal...brill.com 032
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 01/07/2025We hope that, while enjoying the summer sun, you’ll also take a moment to read about a largely overlooked area of @echr.coe.int case law concerning the rights of future retirees. A new paper by Kevin Hartmann-Cortes explores the admissibility of such claims. brill.com/view/journal...brill.com 041
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouUK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Our latest explainer examines the relationship between the ECHR and immigration law, particularly Article 3 and Article 8, and how it impacts the removal of foreign national criminals in the UK By @joellegrogan.bsky.social, @alicedonald.bsky.social & Victoria Adelmant ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/d...ukandeu.ac.ukExplainer: Does the European Convention on Human Rights stop foreign criminals being removed from the UK? - UK in a changing EuropeJoelle Grogan, Alice Donald and Victoria Adelman examine the relationship between the ECHR and immigration law. 0116
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Our editor @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social just published his editorial note for the upcoming issue of our journal looking at the social contract within which the @echr.coe.int is operating (open access): brill.com/view/journal...brill.com 053
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 27/05/2025You can now pre-order the second edition of Great Debates on the European Convention on Human Rights that I wrote with @fdelond.bsky.social. It covers many new things that happened since the first one including climate change cases, Russia’s expulsion and many more www.bloomsbury.com/uk/great-deb...bloomsbury.comGreat Debates on the European Convention on Human Rights 0105
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 23/05/2025We are delighted to publish a guest editorial from David Anderson KC with a strong argument on why @echr.coe.int is actually good for UK national security and why the arguments for withdrawal are unfounded. Open access brill.com/view/journal...brill.com 1158
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 17/05/2025The 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...brill.com 01914
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Antoine Duval from @tmcasser.bsky.social just published a very important comment on the @echr.coe.int judgment in Semenya v Switzerland ahead of the reconsideration of this case by the Grand Chamber. 022
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 15/05/2025The UK government is planing to increase the time for settlement to 10 year to those who are already here and started their process under the old rules. This is not only time what matters but it includes massive expense. This seems rather unfair. 011
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Our new special issue on the never-ending saga of EU accession to the ECHR is already online with most up-to-date analysis of the most current developments brill.com/view/journal...brill.com 0102
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The ECtHR's 2024 climate cases were decidedly dogmatic concerning extraterritorial jurisdiction. Lea Raible analyzes this - and its interplay with positive obligations - in the first article of our upcoming special issue on the climate rulings, co-edited by Armando Rocha & @cohelongo.bsky.social. 1154
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 22/04/2025We were a bit slow in using this account but we will use it more now. Please check our advance articles section - our upcoming issue on EU accession to ECHR is already there: brill.com/view/journal...brill.com 021
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 22/04/2025In a few weeks we will publish reflections of former president of the @echr.coe.int Siofra O’Leary on her time as the President of the Court. She will tell the readers about the Reykjavik summit, difficulties and future of the court. Excellent must read for everyone who is interested in the Court. 051
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouCURE Campaign @curecampaign.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Final call for webinar 25 April, 10 AM CEST, with @drandrewforde.bsky.social, @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social, @edbatesechr.bsky.social, authors of “Russia, the @coe.int and the European Convention on Human Rights. A Troubled Membership and Its Legacy” Info + sign up 👉 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...y.social 031
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 21/02/2025In this podcast @edbatesechr.bsky.social , @drandrewforde.bsky.social and @cahillrip.bsky.social discuss the relationship between Russia and the @coe.int www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyu2...youtube.comExpulsion of Russia from the Council of Europe. Podcast.YouTube video by Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou 064
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 04/02/2025The judgment in Cannavacciuolo v Italy is an interesting one because it is the first pilot judgment in environmental pollution cases. Another curious feature is how detailed the presentation of third party interventions is: hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...hudoc.echr.coe.intHUDOC - European Court of Human RightsThe HUDOC database provides access to the case-law of the Court (Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments and decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-L... 031
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 29/01/2025The @coe.int Parliamentary Assembly elected three new judges of the European Cout of Human Rights: Vahe Grigoryan for Armenia, Vasilka Sancin for Slovenia and Canolic Mingorance Cairat for Andorra. The election of Slovenian Judge also means that we will soon have a new president of the Court. 041
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouCorina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025I recently had the pleasure of contributing to the Spanish Yearbook of International Law at the invitation of Ángel Rodrigo Hernández and Beatriz Vázquez Rodríguez and as I'm reading the proofs I'm more and more convinced this tracks (ie KlimaSeniorinnen as somewhere between individual case and AO) 041
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 27/01/2025I am happy to announce that @drandrewforde.bsky.social, @edbatesechr.bsky.social and I recorded a podcast about our forthcoming book on Russia's expulsion from the @coe.int with @cahillrip.bsky.social as moderator. Thank you OCEAN programme of the CoE for hosting it: vimeo.com/1048821425?s...vimeo.com20250117_CoE_podcast_OCEANThis is "20250117_CoE_podcast_OCEAN" by Council of Europe OP Services on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. 0145
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouTobias Lock @tobiaslock.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Great to see this out! 082
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Our newest paper is by professor @tobiaslock.bsky.social who considers how EU accession to the European Convention will change the latter. Really interesting paper which will form a part of our upcoming special issue on EU accession to the ECHR. brill.com/view/journal...brill.com 0122
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Our third summer school on the law of the @coe.int will take place in Liverpool in July. Please apply and join us to discuss the Strasbourg system with leading academics and practitioners. www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/research...liverpool.ac.ukSummer School 2025 - Liverpool Law School - University of Liverpool 011
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouColm O'Cinneide @colmocinneide.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Leah Trueblood has a v. good paper just out in the MLR on whether & when UK political parties should be regarded as performing public functions, and thus be subject to judicial review. I've always thought this was a really knotty & fascinating legal question.. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comPublic Functions of Political Parties in the United KingdomPolitical parties are both private and public bodies. Some actions of political parties must be categorised as private to protect freedom of speech and association. This article argues, however, that.... 83920
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Our third summer school on the law of the @coe.int will be announced today. Mind this spot and apply to learn awful a lot about how things work in Strasbourg @livunislsj.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 15/01/2025If you are interested in ECHR news, you can also follow our editor-in-chief who will be offering his personal view on ECHR news in his account: @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social 051
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social · 14/01/2025We are happy to announce that we moved from X to here and our X account will be discontinued. Please do follow us and spread the word. This change will not amend our mission to share the most up-to-date and insightful scholarship on the European Convention on Human Rights! 241064360
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 14/01/2025The ECHR Law Review will migrate to this network today. Watch the space and please follow! 1172
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 03/12/2024@niccolo and I recorded a podcast about our recent @ICLQ_jnl article on scholarship citation by the judges of the @ECHR_CEDH. It is in English with Ukrainian subtitles. Next stop Hollywood :) youtu.be/91dPo_BIem0?...youtu.beАргументація рішень суду: коли на допомогу приходять книги? | JustTalk Context SpecialYouTube video by JustTalk 030
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouBrian Flanagan @lawstuff.bsky.social · 29/11/2024‘A Dilemma for Proceduralist Theories of Democracy’ published open access in the American Journal of Jurisprudence today! I argue (prove) that thin accounts of democracy either exclude familiar strands of representative democracy or admit elective autocracies. doi.org/10.1093/ajj/...doi.orgA Dilemma for Proceduralist Theories of Democracy: Elected Delegates or Elected Monarchs?Abstract. Emphasizing the intrinsic value of formal political equality, a prominent strand of democratic theory—proceduralism—sharply disassociates democra 2175
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Can’t wait to go to Edinburgh next week to meet friends and to dive into ECHR related debates. 131
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouAndrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 28/11/2024Interesting reflections from Switzerland on the #ECHR system, 50 years after joining and following this year’s big #ClimateChange ruling 👇 🔗 www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democrac... via Swissinfo Check out the table on the European Court's violation judgments by country in 2023. #HumanRights #RuleOfLawswissinfo.chHappy anniversary? Switzerland marks 50 years at the ECHRHalf a century after Switzerland ratified the European Convention on Human Rights, the treaty and its Strasbourg court are under pressure across Europe. 0142
Reposted by Kanstantsin DzehtsiarouCorina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024The anniversary is being marked in other ways as well. For example, see these two in-depth pieces by Domhnall O'Sullivan in Swissinfo: one featuring faves @evelyneschmid.bsky.social and @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social (among others): www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democrac... and www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democrac...;swissinfo.chSeven ways the ECHR has shaped Swiss law over the yearsFrom surname rules to asbestos claims, the European Court on Human Rights has rapped Switzerland’s knuckles some 140 times since 1974. 162
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 28/11/2024I shared some thoughts about the effectiveness of the ECtHR here www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democrac...swissinfo.chHappy anniversary? Switzerland marks 50 years at the ECHRHalf a century after Switzerland ratified the European Convention on Human Rights, the treaty and its Strasbourg court are under pressure across Europe. 021
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Welcome to all. I hope that the European Court and Council of Europe official accounts will move here soon too. 141