"Has the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or Court) lost its legitimacy? The answer to this question is perhaps 'no'. If this was the case, the Contracting Parties would stop executing judgments of the Court; the applicants would stop bringing their complaints to the Court;…
With the spotlight on Magna Carta, which is 800 years old in 2015, and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, which together are of undeniable importance for fundamental rights-thinking, the existence of similar fundamental rights documents in other Eur…
This book is about rights and powers in the digital age. It is an attempt to reframe the role of constitutional democracies in the algorithmic society. By focusing on the European constitutional framework as a lodestar, this book examines the rise and consolidation of digital co…
INTRODUCTION: the EU accession to the ECHR ante portas: questions raised by Europe's new human rights architecture - PART I: INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS, PRIOR INVOLVEMENT AND THE AUTONOMY OF THE EU: 2. The EU accession to the ECHR: the negotiation process / Andrew Drzemczewski -…
Foreword by Sir Francis Jacobs QC Acknowledgements .Table of Cases .Table of Legislation Table of Conventions and Treaties and Agreements 1. Introduction: The EU Accession to the ECHR Ante Portas: Questions Raised by Europe's New Human Rights Architecture 1 Part I: Institutional…
Questions of the application and interpretation of the ne bis in idem principle in EU law continue to surface in the case law of different European courts. The primary purpose of this book is to provide guidance and to address important issues in connection with the ne bis in id…
"The recent austerity measures currently adopted in numerous European countries assume that a rise in public debt should automatically result in cuts to social programmes and the privatisation of "inefficiently" managed resources. This type of reasoning is being used to justify …
Looks at the nature of human rights challenges in two enduring liberal democracies - Germany and the United Kingdom. employing an ambitious data set that covers the compliance status of all European court of Human Rights judgments rendered until 2015, the author presents a cross…
Dialogue is the new buzzword for the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention) system. Judges throughout Europe have welcomed and encouraged dialogue, and references to the notion have become commonplace at conferences and in academic writing. Yet although the buzz has in…
This engaging textbook provides a critical analysis of the legitimacy and effectiveness of the European Convention on Human Rights and its practical operation. In a succinct way, the book investigates questions around the legitimacy of how the European Court of Human Rights deve…
