Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law
Subtitle: Liber Amicorum Luzius Wildhaber
Contributors: Stephan Breitenmoser (Editor); Bernhard Ehrenzeller (Editor); Marco Sassoli (Editor); Walter Stoffel (Editor); Beatrice Wagner Pfeifer (Editor)
Edition: Mul edition
Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Published: February 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1650
ISBN-13: 9783832926465
Subjects: General; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Constitutional; International; Law; Politics / Current Events
Description: Luzius Wildhaber celebrated his 70th birthday on 18 January 2007 and retired as president of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg. His former students teaching in different Swiss universities, took this opportunity to honour his broad and diverse contribution as an academic and a judge in the fields of constitutional and international law through this book dedicated to him. They had been personally linked to him since his time as a professor at the University of Basel and a member of various courts, and as judge at the ECtHR. This liber amicorum combines contributions written in English, German and French by friends, students and colleagues.