Human Rights in Europe: Being An Account of the European Convention.

Robertson, A.H. Human Rights in Europe: Being an Account of the European Convention for the Protection of Human rights and Fundamental Freedoms Signed in Rome on 4 November 1950 : of the Protocol thereto and of the Machinery Created thereby: the European Commission of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine. Good. Ex-library with shelf location label to foot of spine. Property stamps of Library of Congress to front pastedown and free endpaper. Card pocket to rear pastedown. Publisher's description tipped-in to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean. $25. * The definitive first edition of the premier monograph written on the foundational mechanics of post-war European civil liberties. Robertson, who served intimately as the Director of Human Rights for the Council of Europe, delivers the earliest comprehensive legal overview of the historic 1950 Rome Convention. The text provides a rigorous, contemporary analysis of the then-nascent European Commission of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. An essential, landmark primary reference work for institutional collections and serious collectors focusing on public international law, human rights jurisprudence, and European integration.…