EUROPE OF RIGHTS C

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-953526-2
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 892 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1488 g

The European Convention on Human Rights has evolved into a sophisticated legal system, whose formal reach into the domestic law and politics of the Contracting States is limited only by the ever-widening scope of the Convention itself, as determined by a transnational court. In this book, a team of distinguished scholars trace and evaluate, comparatively, the impact of the ECHR and the European Court of Human Rights on law and politics in eighteen national systems: Ireland-UK; France-Germany, Italy-Spain, Belgium-Netherlands, Norway-Sweden, Greece-Turkey, Russia-Ukraine, Poland-Slovakia, and Austria-Switzerland. Although the Court's jurisprudence has provoked significant structural, procedural, and policy innovation in every State examined, its impact varies widely across States and legal domains. The book charts this variation and seeks to explain it. Across Europe, national officials - in governments, legislatures, and judiciaries - have chosen to incorporate the ECHR into domestic law, and they have developed a host of mechanisms designed to adapt the national legal system to the ECHR as it evolves. But how and why State actors have done so varies in important ways, and these differences heavily determine the relative status and effectiveness of Convention rights in national systems. Although problems persist, the book shows that national officials are, gradually but inexorably, being socialized into a Europe of rights, a unique transnational legal space now developing its own logics of political and juridical legitimacy.

Zielgruppe

Academics, scholars, and advanced students of European human rights law and international relations

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keller, Helen

Stone Sweet, Alec

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Keller and Stone Sweet: Introduction to the Project

- Part I Country Reports

- 2: Erika de Wet: Belgium and the Netherlands

- 3: Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad: France and Germany

- 4: Daniela Thurnherr: Austria and Switzerland

- 5: Samantha Besson: Ireland and the UK

- 6: Ola Wiklund: Norway and Sweden

- 7: Ibrahim Özden Kaboglu and Stylianos-Ioannis G. Koutnatzis: Greece and Turkey

- 8: Magda Krzyzanowska-Mierzewska: Poland and Slavakia

- 9: Angelika Nussberger: Russia and Ukraine

- Part II Assessment and Conclusion

- 10: Keller and Stone Sweet: The ECHR and National Legal Orders

- Appendix: National Statistics Related to ECHR Cases Filed

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Keller is Professor of Public Law, International Law and European Law, at the University of Zurich

Alec Stone Sweet is Leitner Professor of Law, Politics, and International Studies, at Yale Law School