Protecting Human Rights In The Eu

Author : Tanel Kerikmäe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783642389023

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Protecting Human Rights in the EU by Tanel Kerikmäe Pdf

Human rights are much talked about and much written about, in academic legal literature as well as in political and other social sciences and the general political debate. This book argues that the universality of basic human rights is one of the values of the concept of rights. It points out the risk of a certain “inflation” caused by the current habit of talking so much and so often about human rights and of using them as a basis for claims of various kinds. These rights, their understanding and interpretation may need to become more “purist” to ensure that universal human rights as a concept survive. Another chapter concentrates on the analysis of the frames of “EU protected human rights” from the perspective of effective implementation. Further, the book not only deals with the complicated relations between the EU and international law, but also seeks to show the horizontal effect. To that end, the fears and hopes of the member states and interest groups are categorized and commented on. Lastly, the gaps in theory and practice are addressed, current trends related to implementation are pointed out, and suggestions are made concerning how to make the best out of the Charter.

Author : Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou,Theodore Konstadinides,Tobias Lock,Noreen O'Meara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135971861

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Human Rights Law in Europe by Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou,Theodore Konstadinides,Tobias Lock,Noreen O'Meara Pdf

This book provides analysis and critique of the dual protection of human rights in Europe by assessing the developing legal relationship between the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The book offers a comprehensive consideration of the institutional framework, adjudicatory approaches, and the protection of material rights within the law of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It particularly explores the involvement and participation of stakeholders in the functioning of the EU and the ECtHR, and asks how well the new legal model of ‘the EU under the ECtHR’ compares to current EU law, the ECHR and general international law. Including contributions from leading scholars in the field, each chapter sets out specific case-studies that illustrate the tensions and synergies emergent from the EU-ECHR relationship. In so doing, the book highlights the overlap and dialectic between Europe’s two primary international courts. The book will be of great interest to students and researchers of European Law and Human Rights.

Author : Bychawska-Siniarska, Dominika
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Protecting the right to freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights by Bychawska-Siniarska, Dominika Pdf

European Convention on Human Rights – Article 10 – Freedom of expression 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises. 2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary. In the context of an effective democracy and respect for human rights mentioned in the Preamble to the European Convention on Human Rights, freedom of expression is not only important in its own right, but it also plays a central part in the protection of other rights under the Convention. Without a broad guarantee of the right to freedom of expression protected by independent and impartial courts, there is no free country, there is no democracy. This general proposition is undeniable. This handbook is a practical tool for legal professionals from Council of Europe member states who wish to strengthen their skills in applying the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in their daily work.

Author : Nina-Louisa Arold Lorenz,Xavier Groussot,Gunnar Thor Petursson
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004258440

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The European Human Rights Culture - A Paradox of Human Rights Protection in Europe? by Nina-Louisa Arold Lorenz,Xavier Groussot,Gunnar Thor Petursson Pdf

The European Human Rights Culture – A Paradox of Human Rights Protection in Europe? analyses the political term “European Human Rights Culture”, a term first introduced by EU Commission President Barroso. Located in the fields of comparative law and European law, this book analyses, through first-hand interviews with the European judiciary, the judicial perspective on the European human rights culture and sets this in context to the political dimension of the term. In addition, it looks at the structures and procedures of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), and explains the embedding of the Courts’ legal cultures. It offers an in-depth analysis of the margin of appreciation doctrine at both the CJEU and ECtHR, and shows its value for addressing human rights grievances.

Author : Sionaidh Douglas-Scott,Nicholas Hatzis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781782546405

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Research Handbook on EU Law and Human Rights by Sionaidh Douglas-Scott,Nicholas Hatzis Pdf

The place of human rights in EU law has been a central issue in contemporary debates about the character of the European Union as a political organisation. This comprehensive and timely Handbook explores the principles underlying the development of fundamental rights norms and the way such norms operate in the case law of the Court of Justice. Leading scholars in the field discuss both the effect of rights on substantive areas of EU law and the role of EU institutions in protecting them.

Author : Franz Matscher,Herbert Petzold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:474847569

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Protecting human rights by Franz Matscher,Herbert Petzold Pdf

Author : Nanette A. Neuwahl,Allan Rosas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004482425

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The European Union and Human Rights by Nanette A. Neuwahl,Allan Rosas Pdf

Author : Patricia Popelier,Catherine van de Heyning,Piet Van Nuffel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 1780680104

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Human Rights Protection in the European Legal Order by Patricia Popelier,Catherine van de Heyning,Piet Van Nuffel Pdf

Ensuring the protection of human rights in Europe has become a highly complex exercise. Where courts are faced with a human rights claim, they not only have to examine the validity of that claim, but they also need to have a clear understanding of the human rights catalogue that is to be applied (i.e. human rights as guaranteed by the national constitution, human rights as protected under EU law, based or not on the Charter, and human rights as identified in the European Convention of Human Rights). This book zooms in on various aspects of the interaction between courts in the complex European system of human rights protection. While other books take either a European or a national approach, this book studies both the co-existence between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice, and the impact of this dual mechanism of European human rights protection on the protection offered within specific EU Member States. This makes the book valuable for academics and practitioners who specialize in fundamental rights, EU law, or constitutional law. (Series: Law and Cosmopolitan Values - Vol. 1)

Author : Council of Europe,European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287198495

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Handbook on European data protection law by Council of Europe,European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Pdf

The rapid development of information technology has exacerbated the need for robust personal data protection, the right to which is safeguarded by both European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) instruments. Safeguarding this important right entails new and significant challenges as technological advances expand the frontiers of areas such as surveillance, communication interception and data storage. This handbook is designed to familiarise legal practitioners not specialised in data protection with this emerging area of the law. It provides an overview of the EU’s and the CoE’s applicable legal frameworks. It also explains key case law, summarising major rulings of both the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, it presents hypothetical scenarios that serve as practical illustrations of the diverse issues encountered in this ever-evolving field.

Author : Ronald MacDonald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-08-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 0792324315

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The European System for the Protection of Human Rights by Ronald MacDonald Pdf

30. Conciliation by Alexandre Kiss

Author : Yumiko Nakanishi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789811061295

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Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Law by Yumiko Nakanishi Pdf

This book is published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This book analyzes issues in human rights law from a variety of perspectives by eminent European and Asian professors of constitutional law, international public law, and European Union law. As a result, their contributions collected here illustrate the phenomenon of cross-fertilization not only in Europe (the EU and its member states and the Council of Europe), but also between Europe and Asia. Furthermore, it reveals the influence that national and foreign law, EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights, and European and Asian law exert over one another. The various chapters cover general fundamental rights and human rights issues in Europe and Asia as well as specific topics regarding the principles of nondiscrimination, women’s rights, the right to freedom of speech in Japan, and China’s Development Banks in Asia. Protection of human rights should be guaranteed in the international community, and research based on a comparative law approach is useful for the protection of human rights at a higher level. As the product of academic cooperation between ten professors of Japanese, Taiwanese, German, Italian, and Belgian nationalities, this work responds to such needs.

Author : Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir,Antoine Buyse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317309093

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Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection by Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir,Antoine Buyse Pdf

This book brings together researchers from the fields of international human rights law, EU law and constitutional law to reflect on the tug-of-war over the positioning of the centre of gravity of human rights protection in Europe. It addresses both the position of the Convention system vis-à-vis the Contracting States, and its positioning with respect to fundamental rights protection in the European Union. The first part of the book focuses on interactions in this triangle from an institutional and constitutional point of view and reflects on how the key actors are trying to define their relationship with one another in a never-ending process. Having thus set the scene, the second part takes a critical look at the tools that have been developed at European level for navigating these complex relationships, in order to identify whether they are capable of responding effectively to the complexities of emerging realities in the triangular relationship between the EHCR, EU law and national law. Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.

Author : Ronald MacDonald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993-08-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 0792324315

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The European System for the Protection of Human Rights by Ronald MacDonald Pdf

30. Conciliation by Alexandre Kiss

Author : Angelica Bonfanti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429811258

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Business and Human Rights in Europe by Angelica Bonfanti Pdf

Transnational business activities are important drivers of growth for developing and the least developed countries. However, they can also negatively impact the enjoyment of human rights. In some cases, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have even been accused of grave human rights abuses in the territory of the states where their subsidiaries operate. Since the parent companies of many MNEs are incorporated under the law of European states, those countries’ domestic law and the European legal framework play a crucial role in establishing how their activities should be conducted – also throughout their supply chains – and which remedies will be available when corporate human rights violations occur. In recent years, the European Union, the Council of Europe and their Member States have been adopting policies and legislation to ensure respect for human rights by businesses and have developed a body of related case law. These legal instruments can be considered the European responses to the challenges posed at international-law level, and they constitute the focus of research of this book. Through its collected chapters – written by scholars and practitioners under the direction of the editor, Angelica Bonfanti – the book identifies the European solutions to the business and human rights international legal issues, provides an overall assessment of their effectiveness, and examines their potential evolution.

Author : Francesca Ippolito,Sara Iglesias Sánchez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782256144

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Protecting Vulnerable Groups by Francesca Ippolito,Sara Iglesias Sánchez Pdf

The concept of vulnerability has not been unequivocally interpreted either in regional or in universal international legal instruments. This book analyses the work of the EU and the Council of Europe in ascertaining a clear framework or a set of criteria suitable to determine those who should be considered vulnerable and disadvantaged. It also explores the measures required to protect their human rights. Key questions can be answered by analysing the different methods used to determine the levels of protection offered by the two European systems. These questions include whether the Convention and the case law of the Strasbourg Court, the monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Europe, EU law and the case law of the European Court of Justice enhance the protection of vulnerable groups and expand the protection of their rights, or, alternatively, whether they are mainly used to fill in relatively minor gaps or occasional lapses in national rights guarantees. The analysis also shows the extent to which these two European systems provide analogous, or indeed divergent, standards and how any such divergence might be problematic in light of the EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights.