The European Court of Human Rights: Bringing Together Legal Systems

• Authors: Alina Cherviatsova
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Since its creation in 1959, the European Court of Human Rights has had a direct impact on the national systems of its members. One of the main features of the European Court of Human Rights is that during its evolution and decision-making processes it has brought together legal systems in the light of human rights established in the European Convention on Human Rights. The present work discusses the role that the European Court of Human Rights has played in this matter by examining its development during its six decades of work, analyzing the methodology, techniques and theories that it uses to interpret the European Convention on Human Rights, and describing the implementation and enforcement of the European Court's decisions if and when they implied a change of member state home legislation.

Keywords

EN

European Convention on Human Rights; European Court of Human Rights; legal system; European Court's case law; implementation of the European Court's judgments; interpretation of the European Convention

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 99-116

Dates

published

2012-01-01

online

2012-08-30

Contributors

author

Alina Cherviatsova

• Vice-Dean for International Relations Faculty of Law, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10076-012-0005-z