Transitional Jurisprudence and the Echr: Justice, Politics And Rights

Antoine Buyse

ISBN 10: 1107635985 / ISBN 13: 9781107635982

Published by Cambridge University Press 2014-01-02, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transitional Jurisprudence and the Echr: Justice, Politics And Rights
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2014-01-02
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107635985
• ISBN 13: 9781107635982
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The European Convention on Human Rights has been a standard-setting text for transitions to peace and democracy in states throughout Europe. This book analyses the content, role and effects of the jurisprudence of the European Court relating to societies in transition. It features a wide range of transitional challenges, from killings by security forces in Northern Ireland to property restitution in East Central Europe, and from political upheaval in the Balkans to the position of religious minorities and Roma. Has the European Court developed a specific transitional jurisprudence? How do politics affect the ways in which the Court's judgments are implemented? Does the Court's case-law itself become woven into narratives of struggle in transitional societies? This book seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the unique role of Europe's main guardian of human rights, the Court in Strasbourg. It includes a comparison with the Inter-American and African human rights systems.

About the Authors

Antoine Buyse is an associate professor and senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University.

Michael Hamilton is an associate professor in the Legal Studies Department of the Central European University, Budapest, and senior lecturer at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster.