The European Court of Human Rights and the Rights of Marginalised Individuals and Minorities in National Context - Hardcover

 
9789004173262: The European Court of Human Rights and the Rights of Marginalised Individuals and Minorities in National Context

Synopsis

This volume explores the role of the ECtHR in protecting marginalised individuals and minorities. What factors and conditions have led growing numbers of such individuals and minorities to pursue their rights and freedoms in front of the ECtHR and how has the latter responded to these? Does the Convention and the jurisprudence of the Strasbourg Court enhance the protection of vulnerable groups at the national level and expand their rights? Or do they mainly tend to fill in relatively minor gaps or occasional lapses in national rights guarantees? Comprising a set of eight country-based case studies, this volume examines litigation on behalf of marginalised individuals and minorities, and the relevant ECtHR jurisprudence across the following countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, France, Italy, Turkey and the UK.

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About the Author

Dr. Dia Anagnostou is Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens and Lecturer of Politics at the Department of Balkan and Slavic Studies at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. She has published on Southeast Europe, ethnic politics and European integration, minorities and human rights.

Dr. Evangelia Psychogiopoulou is Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens. She is author of the book The Integration of Cultural Considerations in EU Law and Policies (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008).

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