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PROPERTY RESTITUTION IN LITHUANIA, AN REPARATORY TOOL IN THE PROCESS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE? [PDF]

Challenges of the Knowledge Society
In Lithuania, the 90s marked the beginnings of a transitional period toward the reconstruction of a democratic state. On the one hand, it emerged as the ideal model, a new societal and state project, a democratic society, with a state founded on ...
Bianca Elena RADU
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Poland’s Judicial Reform Before the European Courts: What Makes a Court a Non-Majoritarian Institution?

European Papers
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2026 11(1), 419-441 | Article | (Table of Contents) 1. Introduction. – 2. Situating judicial reform in Poland in a broader context. – 3.
Aleksandra Kustra-Rogatka
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Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 167-179, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
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Islamophobia and Danish academia

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 263-290, June 2026.
Abstract This article investigates how Danish academics participate in, interpret, and reproduce debates on the legal and normative regulation of Muslims in Denmark since the early 2000s. Through a thematic analysis of journal articles and public dissemination outputs authored by Danish researchers, it explores the social production of legal knowledge ...
SOFIE AALTONEN
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“Access Denied” – Interpreting the Digital Divide by Examining the Right of Prisoners to Access the Internet in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
The present paper aims to investigate prisoners’ rights to use and access the Internet, focusing on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
Lendvai Gergely Ferenc, Gosztonyi Gergely   +1 more
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THE RIGHT TO A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT. INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF A HUMAN RIGHT TO A CLEAN ENVIRONEMENT BY ECTHR JURISPRUDENCE [PDF]

Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2015
European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) does not specifically recognize a right to a clean environment, nor speaks specifically about environmental issues.
Oana Maria HANCIU
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Tampering with the ECtHR

On Human Rights Day, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe convened an informal ministerial conference. The reason was that the ECtHR has come under pressure from its member states. Given the ongoing interference with the Court, I propose that the latter should define and apply contempt measures to sanction member states intruding on its ...
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Reassessment of the Ireland v. the United Kingdom ECtHR case: A lost opportunity to clarify the distinction between torture and ill-treatment

Torture, 2019
Introduction: In the 1978 Ireland v. the United Kingdom case, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) did not consider that the so called "five techniques" caused enough severity to be considered torture. The intentionality criterion, outlined in the
Vesna Stefanovska
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Bias and judicial narrative: a critical discourse analysis of the ECtHR and ECJ case law on religious symbols

European Law Open
The use of religious symbols has sparked heated debate and numerous judicial cases across Europe. Early case law from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been criticised for allegedly employing biased discourses.
Mauro Gatti, Giulia Evolvi
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Website Operators’ Liability for Offensive Comments: A Comparative Analysis of Delfi as v. Estonia and MTE & Index v. Hungary

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2017
In 2013 and 2015, the ECtHR in the famous case of Delfi AS v. Estonia recognised the possibility for a website operator to be liable for the delayed removal of illegal comments of internet users.
Šidlauskienė Jūratė, Jurkevičius Vaidas   +1 more
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