In this reflection piece, we will offer a few brief observations on the blog posts authored by Alice Donald, Kirill Koroteev and Nils Muižnieks, to whom we are most grateful. The three contributions appear to complement one another in broadly contending that more could—and perhaps should—have been done while Russia remained a member of the Council of Europe…

We are delighted that EJIL:Talk! is convening a symposium on our co-authored book published under the above title, by Bristol University Press earlier this year. This opportunity arises at a particularly poignant moment given the recent judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia (on which see here, here and here).

It is over a decade now since the European Court of Human Rights delivered Hirst v United Kingdom (6 October 2005), ruling that the UK’s blanket (legislative) ban on convicted prisoners voting breached Art 3 of Protocol 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights (hereafter, the 'Convention'). Five years ago, in Greens and MT v…