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2 Eur. Convention on Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/euncvnohn2 and id is 1 raw text is: EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS LAW European Convention on BRILL REVIEW 2 (2021) 1-10 Human Rights N IJ H O F F brill.com/eclr Editorial Interim Measures: Are Some Opportunities Worth Missing? i Introduction In this issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review, we have the pleasure to host two guest editorial notes. Our esteemed guests, Professor Bagak galh and Judge Armen Harutyunyan, discuss the effectiveness of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) in the circumstances when more and more European states are facing a real risk of becoming illiberal democracies or even outright authoritarian regimes. In this editorial note we are also considering the effectiveness of the Court, but from a different per- spective. What we are briefly discussing below is the usefulness of interim measures in inter-state disputes. This is a rather controversial issue, which is reflected in the two sets of arguments, pointing in different directions, that we are presenting towards the end of this editorial note. The purpose of present- ing two different points of view in this co-authored editorial note of ours is to illustrate some of the delicate trade-offs that a Court like the ECtHR might face. More than once, authors of one of the leading blogs dedicated to the ECtHR, Strasbourg Observers, commented on case law, characterising it in the title of their notes as a 'missed opportunity' for the Court.1 Often the Convention 1 See, for example, N de Puy Kamp, 'ATV ZRT v. Hungary: A Missed Opportunity to Address Hungary's Oppressive Media Act' (Strasbourg Observers, 15 May 2020): <https://strasbourg observers.com/2o2o/05/15/atv-zrt-v-hungary-a-missed-opportunity-to-address-hungarys- oppressive-media-act/>; VJunod and O Simon, 'Abdyusheva and Others v. Russia: A Sadly Missed Opportunity' (Strasbourg Observers, 8 January 2020): <https://strasbourgobservers. com/2020/o/o08/abdyusheva-and-others-v-russia-a-sadly-missed-opportunity/>; © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2021 1 DOI:10.1163/26663236-BJA10017

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