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Europe of rights : the impact of the ECHR on national legal systems the impact of the ECHR on national legal systems / edited by Helen Keller and Alec Stone Sweet. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xl, 852 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The reception of the ECHR in national legal orders / The reception process in Ireland and the United Kingdom / The reception process in France and Germany / The reception process in Sweden and Norway / The reception process in the Netherlands and Belgium / The reception process in Austria and Switzerland / The reception process in Spain and Italy / The reception process in Greece and Turkey / The reception process in Poland and Slovakia / The reception process in Russia and Ukraine / Assessing the impact of the ECHR on national legal systems / Alec Stone Sweet and Helen Keller -- Samantha Besson -- Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad and Anne Weber -- Ola Wiklund -- Erika de Wet -- Daniela Thurnherr -- Mercedes Candela Soriano -- İbrahim Özden Kaboğlu and Stylianos-Ioannis G. Koutnatzis -- Magda Krzyżanowska-Mierzewska -- Angelika Nußberger -- Helen Keller and Alex Stone Sweet.

"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.

ISBN: 9780199535262 0199535264

LCCN: 2008277350

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA817378 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014519069 Uk

Subjects--Corporate Names:
European Court of Human Rights.
Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950)
Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human rights--Europe.
Rezeption

LC Class. No.: KJC5132 / .E97

Dewey Class. No.: 341.48094