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Domestic Application of the ECHR
Eirik Bjorge
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Description for Domestic Application of the ECHR
Hardcover. The first sustained critique of how domestic courts in the EU apply the European Convention on Human Rights and interact with the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg. This book considers the British, French, and German approaches to the ECHR and shows that domestic courts apply and develop the Convention faithfully and positively. Series: International Law in Domestic Legal Orders. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFE; LBBR; LBBV; LNDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 180 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 614.
Domestic courts are entrusted with the application of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as faithful trustees of the rights protected in the Convention. This book analyses the way in which the domestic courts in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany apply the ECHR and how, applying the Convention, they define their relationship with the European Court of Human Rights. Contrary to what others have contended, the book argues that it is not true descriptively, nor desirable normatively, that the domestic courts approach the ECHR based upon friction and assertion of sovereignty vis-à-vis the European Court. The ... Read more
Domestic courts are entrusted with the application of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as faithful trustees of the rights protected in the Convention. This book analyses the way in which the domestic courts in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany apply the ECHR and how, applying the Convention, they define their relationship with the European Court of Human Rights. Contrary to what others have contended, the book argues that it is not true descriptively, nor desirable normatively, that the domestic courts approach the ECHR based upon friction and assertion of sovereignty vis-à-vis the European Court. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
International Law in Domestic Legal Orders
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198743637
SKU
V9780198743637
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About Eirik Bjorge
Eirik Bjorge is the Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford. He is the author of The Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Reviews for Domestic Application of the ECHR
The immense strength of Bjorges study is that it both demonstrates that the tensions between the European Court and the domestic authorities are commonplace across the Council of Europe and identifies the way to its effective resolution: that Strasbourg can only succeed in achieving a subsidiary role if domestic courts perform the critical duty of securing human rights protection at ... Read more