| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Why bastard? -- When Irish eyes are crying -- Gay in a time of troubles -- Dudgeon's children -- The greening of Europe? -- Dumb immigrants -- Minos and Jehovah -- Recovered memories -- Mohammed comes to Strasbourg -- The death penalty, mutilation, and the whip -- The original hooded men -- The tortures of Aksoy -- Two faces of Kurdish feminism -- The Chechen challenge -- The Roma challenge -- A constitutional identity for Europe -- Human rights in Europe and America |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-205) and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
European Court of Human Rights -- History
|
| SUBJECT |
European Court of Human Rights fast |
|
Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte gnd |
| Subject |
Constitutional law -- Europe
|
|
Courts -- Europe
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
|
|
Constitutional law
|
|
Courts
|
|
Menschenrecht
|
|
Europe
|
|
Europa
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780813541280 |
|
081354128X |
|
