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A People's History of the European Court of Human Rights : A People's History of the European Court of Human Rights, First Paperback Edition / Michael Goldhaber.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 12Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813539836
  • 9780813541280
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KJC5138 .G65 2009
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Europe’s Supreme Court -- PART I. The Expanding Ambit of Personal Life -- PART II. The Rights of Expression -- PART III. State Violence -- PART IV. Challenges for the Future -- PART V. Concluding Thoughts -- SOURCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary: The exceptionality of America’s Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. But the United States Supreme Court is no longer the only one changing the landscape of public rights and values. Over the past thirty years, the European Court of Human Rights has developed an ambitious, American-style body of law. Unheralded by the mass press, this obscure tribunal in Strasbourg, France has become, in many ways, the Supreme Court of Europe. Michael Goldhaber introduces American audiences to the judicial arm of the Council of Europe—a group distinct from the European Union, and much larger—whose mission is centered on interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. The Council routinely confronts nations over their most culturally-sensitive, hot-button issues. It has stared down France on the issue of Muslim immigration; Ireland on abortion; Greece on Greek Orthodoxy; Turkey on Kurdish separatism; Austria on Nazism; and Britain on gay rights and corporal punishment. And what is most extraordinary is that nations commonly comply. In the battle for the world’s conscience, Goldhaber shows how the court in Strasbourg may be pulling ahead.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Europe’s Supreme Court -- PART I. The Expanding Ambit of Personal Life -- PART II. The Rights of Expression -- PART III. State Violence -- PART IV. Challenges for the Future -- PART V. Concluding Thoughts -- SOURCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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The exceptionality of America’s Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. But the United States Supreme Court is no longer the only one changing the landscape of public rights and values. Over the past thirty years, the European Court of Human Rights has developed an ambitious, American-style body of law. Unheralded by the mass press, this obscure tribunal in Strasbourg, France has become, in many ways, the Supreme Court of Europe. Michael Goldhaber introduces American audiences to the judicial arm of the Council of Europe—a group distinct from the European Union, and much larger—whose mission is centered on interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. The Council routinely confronts nations over their most culturally-sensitive, hot-button issues. It has stared down France on the issue of Muslim immigration; Ireland on abortion; Greece on Greek Orthodoxy; Turkey on Kurdish separatism; Austria on Nazism; and Britain on gay rights and corporal punishment. And what is most extraordinary is that nations commonly comply. In the battle for the world’s conscience, Goldhaber shows how the court in Strasbourg may be pulling ahead.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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