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A Europe of rights : the impact of the ECHR on national legal systems / edited by Helen Keller and Alec Stone Sweet.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: xl, 852 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199535264
  • 9780199535262
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.48094 22
LOC classification:
  • KJC5138 .E97 2008
Contents:
1. The Reception of the ECHR in National Legal Orders / Alec Stone Sweet and Helen Keller -- 2. The Reception Process in Ireland and the United Kingdom / Samantha Besson -- 3. The Reception Process in France and Germany / Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad and Anne Weber -- 4. The Reception Process in Sweden and Norway / Ola Wiklund -- 5. The Reception Process in the Netherlands and Belgium / Erika de Wet -- 6. The Reception Process in Austria and Switzerland / Daniela Thurnherr -- 7. The Reception Process in Spain and Italy / Mercedes Candela Soriano -- 8. The Reception Process in Greece and Turkey / Ibrahim Ozden Kaboglu and Stylianos-Ioannis G. Koutnatzis -- 9. The Reception Process in Poland and Slovakia / Magda Krzyzanowska-Mierzewska -- 10. The Reception Process in Russia and Ukraine / Angelika Nussberger -- 11. Assessing the Impact of the ECHR on National Legal Systems / Helen Keller and Alec Stone Sweet -- Overview of the Activity of the European Court of Human Rights.
Review: "In this book, a team of distinguished scholars trace and evaluate, comparatively, the impact of the ECHR and the European Court of Human Rights on law and politics in eighteen national systems: Ireland-UK; France-Germany, Italy-Spain, Belgium-Netherlands, Norway-Sweden, Greece-Turkey, Russia-Ukraine, Poland-Slovakia, and Austria-Switzerland. Although the Court's jurisprudence has provoked significant structural, procedural, and policy innovation in every State examined, its impact varies widely across States and legal domains. The book charts this variation and seeks to explain it. Across Europe, national officials - in governments, legislatures, and judiciaries - have chosen to incorporate the ECHR into domestic law, and they have developed a host of mechanisms designed to adapt the national legal system to the ECHR as it evolves. But how and why State actors have done so varies in important ways, and these differences heavily determine the relative status and effectiveness of Convention rights in national systems. Although problems persist, the book shows that national officials are, gradually but inexorably, being socialized into a Europe of rights, a unique transnational legal space now developing its own logics of political and juridical legitimacy."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Reception of the ECHR in National Legal Orders / Alec Stone Sweet and Helen Keller -- 2. The Reception Process in Ireland and the United Kingdom / Samantha Besson -- 3. The Reception Process in France and Germany / Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad and Anne Weber -- 4. The Reception Process in Sweden and Norway / Ola Wiklund -- 5. The Reception Process in the Netherlands and Belgium / Erika de Wet -- 6. The Reception Process in Austria and Switzerland / Daniela Thurnherr -- 7. The Reception Process in Spain and Italy / Mercedes Candela Soriano -- 8. The Reception Process in Greece and Turkey / Ibrahim Ozden Kaboglu and Stylianos-Ioannis G. Koutnatzis -- 9. The Reception Process in Poland and Slovakia / Magda Krzyzanowska-Mierzewska -- 10. The Reception Process in Russia and Ukraine / Angelika Nussberger -- 11. Assessing the Impact of the ECHR on National Legal Systems / Helen Keller and Alec Stone Sweet -- Overview of the Activity of the European Court of Human Rights.

"In this book, a team of distinguished scholars trace and evaluate, comparatively, the impact of the ECHR and the European Court of Human Rights on law and politics in eighteen national systems: Ireland-UK; France-Germany, Italy-Spain, Belgium-Netherlands, Norway-Sweden, Greece-Turkey, Russia-Ukraine, Poland-Slovakia, and Austria-Switzerland. Although the Court's jurisprudence has provoked significant structural, procedural, and policy innovation in every State examined, its impact varies widely across States and legal domains. The book charts this variation and seeks to explain it. Across Europe, national officials - in governments, legislatures, and judiciaries - have chosen to incorporate the ECHR into domestic law, and they have developed a host of mechanisms designed to adapt the national legal system to the ECHR as it evolves. But how and why State actors have done so varies in important ways, and these differences heavily determine the relative status and effectiveness of Convention rights in national systems. Although problems persist, the book shows that national officials are, gradually but inexorably, being socialized into a Europe of rights, a unique transnational legal space now developing its own logics of political and juridical legitimacy."--BOOK JACKET.

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