The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights: From Its Inception to the Creation of a Permanent Court of Human Rights

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OUP Oxford, 23. pro 2010. - Broj stranica: 571
The European Convention on Human Rights underwent a spectacular evolution over the first fifty years of its life. In recent times the European Court of Human Rights has been compared to a quasi-constitutional court for Europe in the field of human rights, and for some time the Convention has been viewed as a European Bill of Rights. The 'coming of age' of the ECHR system in the late 1990s was marked by the entry into force of Protocol 11, creating a new, full time Court. By contrast those who first proposed a European human rights guarantee were driven by an ambition to put in place a collective pact to prevent the re-emergence of totalitarianism in 'free' Europe. They were motivated by grisly memories of human rights abuse associated with World War Two, and the protection of 'human rights' was seen in that light. When the Convention was opened for signature in 1950 it was viewed by many with scepticism and disappointment. The Convention system took many years to get established. In the mid-1960s doubts were expressed as to whether the Court had a future and in the 1970s the Convention system of control faced a number of serious challenges. This book examines the story of the evolution of the Convention over its first 50 years (1948-1998). It reflects on the Convention's origins and charts the slow progress that it made over the 1950s and 1960s, before, in the late 1970s, the European Court of Human Rights delivered a series of landmark judgments which proved to be the foundation stones for the European Bill of Rights that we know today.
 

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1 The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
1
I THE CONVENTIONS BIRTH
31
II FROM A SAFEGUARD AGAINST TOTALITARIANISM TO A FLEDGLING EUROPEAN BILL OF RIGHTS
169
III COMPLETING THE EUROPEAN BILL OF RIGHTS
389
IV AFTER 1998
473
ECHR Dates of signatureratification and first acceptances of the right of individual petition and the jurisdiction of the Court 1 June 2010
521
Acceptance of substantive Protocols by Convention States
523
19551975 Development in the number of applications registered declared admissible judgments and Commission Reports
525
19761998 Development in the number of provisional files applications registered declared admissible judgments and Commission Reports
526
First judgment delivered by the European Court of Human Rights in respect of each Member State chronological order
527
InterState cases 19541998
529
Key datesevents in the history of the ECHR 19481998
531
Bibliography
541
Index
563
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Ed Bates is a lecturer in law at the University of Southampton. He is a co-author of the second edition of Harris, O'Boyle and Warbrick's Law of the European Convention on Human Rights (forthcoming, 2009) and has written a number of articles in the field of human rights law, including recent publications in International Comparative Law Quarterly and the British Year Book of International Law.

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