easyreader icon Freedom of Expression and the European Court of Human Rights: A seminar

Those interested in European law or in freedom of expression might want to take a look at documents from “The European Protection of Freedom of Expression: Some Recent Restrictive Trends”, a recent seminar at the European Court of Human Rights, which was directed at the question: “Are recent developments in the Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights case-law undermining adequate guarantees for freedom of expression?”

Here’s a partial list of papers available in PDF, to give you a sense of what’s there:

Freedom of Expression and Article 10 ECHR – Summaries of 20 recent judgments (and decisions) of the European Court of Human Rights by Dirk Voorhoof

Les « devoirs » et « responsabilités » des journalistes : une garantie à l’exercice de la liberté d’expression? by Mario Oetheimer

Russian Case-Law In The Framework Of Article 10 Of The European Convention by Galina Arapova

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights: a dialogue on freedom of expression standards. by Eduardo Andrés Bertoni

There are some 17 papers in all.

Currently there is one comment on “Freedom of Expression and the European Court of Human Rights: A seminar” :

  1. Omar Ha-Redeye has this comment:
    November 17th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    Haroon Siddiqui had an opinion column on a related issue in The Star yesterday.

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