Human Rights Under Threat: States’ Withdrawal from and Non-compliance with ECHR
Journal: Lund University Publications Student Papers (Lund University)
Year: 2017

International human rights law has been progressively expanding and filling the areas that have traditionally been subject to the political decision-making process of sovereign states. Some states, however, have resisted to this, for instance, by refusing to implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. For the same reason, they are also considering the withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights. This research sheds light on the complexity of implications of the wit