A Europe of rights
Subtitle: the impact of the ECHR on national legal systems
By: edited by Helen Keller and Alec Stone Sweet.
Contributors: Keller, Helen, 1964-; Stone Sweet, Alec.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 852
ISBN-13: 9780199535262
Subjects: European Court of Human Rights; Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- (1950); Human rights -- Europe
Description: Through an examination of a set of general questions about how national decision-makers - governments, legislators, and judges - have reacted to the evolution of European human rights law, the chapters enquire how various actors within national legal orders could take decisions to either hinder or to enhance the status of the ECHR. What interests or values, individual or corporate, are judges maximizing? How has this affected the evolution of the ECHR? How do national constitutions take into account treaty law (or international law generally)? Do separation of powers doctrines (or other explicit provisions of public law) permit or prohibit the judicial review of the legal validity of legislative and executive acts with reference to "higher" norms? To what extent should the federal or unitary nature of a Member State make a difference to reception? That is, should we expect the territorial distribution of powers and competences - judicial, legislative, administrative - to have an effect on the status or effectiveness of the ECHR, and if so, how? -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.