Michael Goldhaber

A People's History of the European Court of Human Rights

A People's History of the European Court of Human Rights, First Paperback Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 mission is centered on interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. In the battle for the world's conscience, Goldhaber shows how the court in Strasbourg may be pulling ahead.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 215
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9780813544618
• ISBN-10: 0813544610
• Artikelnr.: 24338356

Autorenporträt

Goldhaber, Michael

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Expanding Ambit of Personal Life
1. Why Bastard?
2. When Irish Eyes Are Crying
3. Gay in a Time of Troubles
4. Dudgeon's Children
5. The Greening of Europe?
6. Dumb Immigrants
Part II. The Rights of Expression
7. Minos and Jehovah
8. Recovered Memories
9. Mohammed Comes to Strasbourg
Part III. State Violence
10. The Death Penalty, Mutilation, and the Whip
11. The Original Hooded Men
12. The Tortures of Aksoy
13. Two Faces of Kurdish Feminism
Part IV. Challenges for the Future
14. The Chechen Challenge
15. The Roma Challenge
Part V. Concluding Thoughts
16. A Constitutional Identity for Europe
17. Human Rights in Europe and America 
Sources
Index