European Court of Human Rights Religious Litigation Dataset (HUREL)

The European Court of Human Rights Religious Litigation Dataset (HUREL) provides data on case law concerning religion in Europe. It contains information on religion-related cases decided by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) between 1959 and 2019. Based on HUDOC, the dataset comprises information on case characteristics, litigants’ attributes, the type of claims pursued, the articles invoked under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and judicial outcomes in terms of judgments and decisions. It is the first dataset offering a comprehensive overview of religion-related applications to the ECtHR. One of its distinctive characteristics is that it contains information on both judgments and admissibility decisions. This allows for an analysis not only of the Courts’ judgments pertaining to religion, but also of patterns of litigation pursued by religious and secular groups.