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The European Court of Human Rights: Implementing
Strasbourg's Judgments on Domestic Policy
Dia Anagnostou
ABSTRACT
One of the most remarkable characteristics of the European Convention of Human Rights and its highly acclaimed judicial tribunal in Strasbourg is the extensive obligations of the
contracting states to give effect to its judgments. This book explores the processes of domestic execution of the European Court of Human Rights’ judgments and seeks to understand the variable patterns of implementation within and across states. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective into the multifaceted ways in which the Strasbourg Court's judgments influence and at times transform human rights standards, laws ... More
Keywords: Human rights, Domestic implementation, Legal mobilisation, Minorities, Courts
BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780748670574
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2014 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748670574.001.0001
AUTHORS
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Dia Anagnostou, author
Panteion University of Social Sciences and the Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
Front Matter
Introduction Untangling the Domestic Implementation of the European Court of Human Rights' Judgments
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Part I Institutional Dynamics of Domestic Implementation
Chapter 1 The Interrelationship Between Domestic Judicial Mechanisms and the Strasbourg Court Rulings in Germany
Sebastian Müller and Christoph Gusy
Chapter 2 Between Political Inertia and Timid Judicial Activism: The Attempts to Overcome the Italian ‘Implementation Failure’
Serena Sileoni
Chapter 3 The Reluctant Embrace: The Impact of the European Court of Human Rights in Post-Communist Romania
Dragoş Bogdan and Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Part II Legal Mobilisation and the Political Context of Implementation
Chapter 4 European Human Rights Case Law and the Rights of Homosexuals, Foreigners and Immigrants in Austria
Kerstin Buchinger, Barbara Liegl and Astrid Steinkellner
Chapter 5 Political Opposition and Judicial Resistance to Strasbourg Case Law Regarding Minorities in Bulga
Yonko Grozev
Chapter 6 Under What Conditions Do National Authorities Implement the European Court of Human Rights' Rulings? Religious and Ethnic Minorities in Greece
Dia Anagnostou and Evangelia Psychogiopoulou
Chapter 7 A Complicated Affair: Turkey's Kurds and the European Court of Human Rights
Dilek Kurban and Haldun Gülalp1
Chapter 8 The European Court of Human Rights and Minorities in the United Kingdom: Catalyst for Change or Hollow Rhetoric?
Kimberley Brayson and Gabriel Swain
Chapter 9 Politics, Courts and Society in the National Implementation and Practice of European Court of Human Rights Case Law
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