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Atlas Shrugged: An Analysis of the ECtHR Case Law Involving Issues of EU Law Since Opinion 2/13

open access: yesEuropean Papers
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2024 9(2), 647-671 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction: “The disappointment that we felt”. – II. Connolly continued: complaints about acts of the EU institutions. – III.
Rick Lawson
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The complex structure of the absolute prohibition of torture: comments in the light of the regulation of article 3 of the European Convention on human rights

open access: yesEspaço Jurídico, 2016
: The complexity indicated in the title of this paper does not refer purely to the internal structure of the prohibition of torture, but also to the obligations of States party to the ECHR that are tied to this prohibition.
Elzbieta Hanna Morawska
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A Relational Perspective on Land in Armed Conflict: Analysing the Village Guard Mobilisation in Turkey

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 194-204, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

RIGHT TO THE CAMPSITE: How Dutch Caravan Dwellers Continue their Struggle for Inclusion

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 466-485, March 2026.
Abstract Over the past decade, a growing housing and urban studies literature has engaged with the Lefebvrian concept of the ‘right to the city’. Central to this are rights, laws and grassroots demands. Emerging literature has also focused on the practical side of the right to the city as a set of actions to undo exclusion and dispossession.
Dominic Teodorescu
wiley   +1 more source

Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
wiley   +1 more source

AREAS IN THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE OF REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA REQUIRING IMPROVEMENTS FOR PURPOSES OF HARMONIZATION WITH THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE ECtHR WITH REGARDS TO THE APPLICATION OF THE DETENTION MEASURE

open access: yesIustinianus Primus Law Review, 2018
The ECtHR has so far brought a number of judgments against Macedonia finding violation of Article 5 of the ECHR. Although in most of these cases the violation derives and refers to the imposition, i.e.
Konstadin Bogdanov
doaj  

His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales, the UK National Preventive Mechanism and the UN Optional Protocol for the Prevention of Torture. Prospects for Prison Reform and the Treatment of Prisoners

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 42-51, March 2026.
ABSTRACT HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales is mandated under domestic law to visit and report on prison conditions and the treatment of prisoners. The Inspectorate's detailed monitoring work provides valuable and authoritative insights into individual prison establishments as well as the overall conditions in prisons and the treatment
Isobel Renzulli
wiley   +1 more source

Do Human Rights Work? Evidence From Prison Death Investigations in Scotland

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 64-76, March 2026.
ABSTRACT It seems self‐evident that countries which have embraced human rights would have better human rights compliance. This article examines this assumption in prison death investigations in Scotland (called fatal accident inquiries or FAIs). The right to life (Article 2 ECHR) includes a procedural right to an effective investigation of deaths ...
Sarah Armstrong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human Rights and Antiterrorism: A Positive Legal Duty to Infringe Freedom From Torture? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In law freedom from torture and ill-treatment is “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes that would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security.
Turner, Ian David
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