The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights

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Over time the corpus of rights and obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights has developed into and is perhaps best understood as a system of autonomous concepts, with the European Court of Human Rights acting as its master of conceptualisation. The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights seeks to identify and explain what these concepts are, how they have evolved, and how they have been applied by the Court. The Companion presents the first compilation and analysis of nearly 300 ECHR notions on Convention rights, principles, procedures and institutions.

Chapter: Introduction is also available.

Kushtrim Istrefi, Associate Professor of Human Rights Law and Public International Law at Utrecht University and substitute member of the Venice Commission. He is coordinator of the Research Platform on Peace, Security and Human Rights, and part of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights and Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law.

Zane Ratniece, Judicial Cooperation Officer in core international crimes at Eurojust, and former advisor to internationalised criminal courts and the European Court of Human Rights.

Krešimir Kamber, Ph.D., Adviser Private Office of the Secretary General and the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, former Senior Legal Adviser at the European Court of Human Rights.

Contributors (in alphabetical order) are:
Valerie Albus, Natalie Alkiviadou, Elif Askin, Hasan Bakirci, Katharina Behr, Claire Beutter, Ledi Bianku, Ayşe Bingöl Demir, Veronica Botticelli, Aida Grgic Boulais, Marta Cabrera Martín, Başak Çalı, Abel Campos, Leto Cariolou, Daina Celma, Roberto Chenal, Jonas Christoffersen, Constantin Cojocariu, Dimitrios Kagiaros, Olga Dmytrenko, Filip Dorssemont, Ronan Fahy, Giulio Fedele, Joseph Finnerty, Demi‐Lee Franklin, Asier Garrido‐Muñoz, Mykola Gnatovskyy, Corina Heri, Krisztina Huszti‐Orbán, Stanislava Ilchenko, Sejla Imamovic, Kushtrim Istrefi, Miles Jackson, Ivana Jelic, Kresimir Kamber, Panos Kapotas, Nikolina Katić, Natalia Kobylarz, Jaka Kukavica, Rick Lawson, Philip Leach, Stefanie Lemke, Paul Lemmens, Claire M.S. Loven, Vasily Lukashevich, Alice Margaria, Stevie Martin, Adriano Martufi, Natasa Mavronicola, Pamela McCormick, Sofia Mirandola, Martins Mits, Daniel Mogster, Helga Molbæk‐Steensig, Tobias Mortier, Hasan Mutaf, Harriet Ní Chinnéide, Yordan Nugraha, Rory O’Connell, Pinar Olcer, Ezgi Ozlu, Vassilis P. Tzevelekos, Taras Pashuk, Luca Pasquet, Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, Pavlo Pushkar, Lize R. Glas, Zane Ratniece, Isabella Risini, Peeter Roosma, Susana Sanz‐Caballero, Firdes Shevket, Toomas Sillaste, Jasmine Sommardal, Robert Spano, Stephanos Stavros, Vladislava Stoyanova, Thomas Straub, Irene Suominen‐Picht, Kristaps Tamuzs, Floris Tan, Alexandra Timmer, Maia Titberidze, Bas van Bockel, Nikos Vogiatzis, Merel Vrancken, Zeynep Yıldız Aykol, Gaia Zanotti, and Ineta Ziemele.