A Europe of Rights - The Impact of the Echr on National Legal Systems

Informationen zum Autor Helen Keller is Professor of Public Law, International Law and European Law, at the University of ZurichAlec Stone Sweet is Leitner Professor of Law, Politics, and International Studies, at Yale Law School Klappentext This book compares the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on the domestic law and politics of eighteen States: Ireland-UK; France-Germany, Italy-Spain, Belgium-Netherlands, Norway-Sweden, Greece-Turkey, Russia-Ukraine, Poland-Slovakia, and Austria-Switzerland. As the ECHR has evolved, many States have decided to "incorporate" the Convention directly into their own legal systems, often with disruptive and transformative effects. Today, the ECHR has asignificant presence in national law and politics across Europe, altering how State officials - including governments, legislatures, and courts - make law and policy. Convention on Human Rights, and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, has been interpreted and applied in the MemberStates, and how it has impacted upon their domestic legal orders. Zusammenfassung This book examines the process through which the European Convention on Human Rights, and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, has been interpreted and applied in the Member States, and how it has impacted upon their domestic legal orders.

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• Authors: Helen Keller, KELLER HELEN STONE SWEET ALEC
• Assisted by: Hele Keller (Editor), Helen Keller (Editor), Helen (Professor of Public Law Keller (Editor), Keller Helen (Editor), Stone Sweet (Editor), Stone Sweet (Editor), Alec Stone Sweet (Editor), Alec (Chair in International and Comparative Law Stone Sweet (Editor), Stone Sweet Alec (Editor), Alec Stone-Sweet (Editor), Alec Stone Sweet (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2008
• EAN: 9780199535262
• ISBN: 978-0-19-953526-2
• No. of pages: 896
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 55 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Print on demand
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, International Relations, EU (European Union), Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law