European Convention on Human Rights

Europe claims to have historically and traditionally developed a human rights culture, along with an adherence to liberalism. Several European scholars have attempted to contest, criticize, and challenge the fundamental rights and the system perpetuated to promote and protect them, with the sole aim of strengthening and reinforcing these rights. This book examines and evaluates the contribution of the European human rights regime, established 60 years ago under the auspices of Council of Europe. The contributions by scholars from India and Europe cover different aspects of this experience and its outcome.

B. Krishnamurthy is a faculty member in the Department of Politics and International Studies, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. He is the author of Indo-French Relations: Problems and Perspectives (2005) and Jawaharlal Nehru and the Freedom Movement in French India (2007). He has co-edited with Geetha Ganapathy-Dore, a volume on Changing World Order: India, EU and the US-A Trialogue (2009). He is specializing in European Studies and human rights.

Geetha Ganapathy-Dore is a research accredited Associate Professor of English at the Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences of the University of Paris 13, Paris. She is the author of The Post-colonial Indian novel in English (2011) and co-author of a textbook English for EU Law (2002). She has edited a volume of essays on Anita Desai's In Custody (2009) and co-edited 4 other books in English and French dealing with Post-colonial literature on European and international relations.