The European Court of Human Rights Implementing Strasbourg's Judgments on Domestic Policy

by Anagnostou, Dia

• ISBN13: 9780748670604
• ISBN10: 0748670602
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-09-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Dia Anagnostou is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, in Panteion University of Social Sciences, and Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athen at the Panteion University of Social Sciences and the Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP).

Table of Contents

The contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Untangling the domestic implementation of the European Court of Human Rights' judgments
Dia Anagnostou

Part I: Institutional Dynamics of Domestic Implementation

1. The interrelationship between domestic judicial mechanisms and the Strasbourg Court rulings in Germany
Sebastian Müller and Christoph Gusy

2. Between political inertia and timid judicial activism: the attempts to overcome the Italian 'implementation failure'
Serena Sileoni

3. The reluctant embrace: the impact of the European Court of Human Rights in post-communist Romania
Dragos Bogdan and Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

Part II: Legal Mobilisation and the Political Context of Implementation

4. European human rights case law and the rights of homosexuals, foreigners and immigrants in Austria
Kerstin Buchinger, Barbara Liegl and Astrid Steinkellner

5. Political opposition and judicial resistance to Strasbourg case law regarding minorities in Bulgaria
Yonko Grozev

6. Under what conditions do national authorities implement the European Court of Human Rights' rulings? Religious and ethnic minorities in Greece
Dia Anagnostou and Evangelia Psychogiopoulou

7. A complicated affair: Turkey's Kurds and the European Court of Human Rights
Dilek Kurban and Haldun Gülalp

8. The European Court of Human Rights and minorities in the United Kingdom: catalyst for change or hollow rhetoric?
Kimberley Brayson and Gabriel Swain

9. Politics, courts and society in the national implementation and practice of European Court of Human Rights case law
Dia Anagnostou


List of European Court of Human Rights judgments and European Commission on Human Rights cases
Index