A people's history of the European Court of Human Rights /

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The exceptionality of America's Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. But the United States Supreme Court is no longer the only one changing the landscape of public rights and values. Over the past thirty years, the European Court of Human Rights has developed an ambitious, American-...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goldhaber, Michael D. (Michael Dov)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
European Court of Human Rights > History.
Cour européenne des droits de l'homme > Histoire.
European Court of Human Rights
Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte
Geschichte 1959-2005.
Constitutional law > Europe.
Courts > Europe.
Droit constitutionnel > Europe.
Tribunaux > Europe.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Constitutional law
Courts
Menschenrecht
Europe
Europa
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The exceptionality of America's Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. But the United States Supreme Court is no longer the only one changing the landscape of public rights and values. Over the past thirty years, the European Court of Human Rights has developed an ambitious, American-style body of law. Unheralded by the mass press, this obscure tribunal in Strasbourg, France has become, in many ways, the Supreme Court of Europe. Michael Goldhaber introduces American audiences to the judicial arm of the Council of Europe--a group distinct from the European Union, and much larger--whose.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-205) and index.
ISBN:9780813541280
081354128X

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