Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Symposium: Legitimacy and the Future of the European Court of Human Rights

The current issue of the German Law Journal (Vol. 12, no. 10, 2011) contains a symposium on "Legitimacy and the Future of the European Court of Human Rights." Contents include:
  • Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou & Alan Greene, Legitimacy and the Future of the European Court of Human Rights: Critical Perspectives from Academia and Practitioners
  • John Hedigan, The European Court of Human Rights: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  • Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, European Consensus and the Evolutive Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights
  • Sarah Lucy Cooper, Marriage, Family, Discrimination & Contradiction: An Evaluation of the Legacy and Future of the European Court of Human Rights’ Jurisprudence on LGBT Rights
  • Alan Greene, Separating Normalcy from Emergency: The Jurisprudence of Article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights
  • Andrew Tickell, Dismantling the Iron-Cage: the Discursive Persistence and Legal Failure of a “Bureaucratic Rational” Construction of the Admissibility Decision-Making of the European Court of Human Rights
  • Noreen O'Meara, “A More Secure Europe of Rights?” The European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and EU Accession to the ECHR
  • Roderic O'Gorman, The ECHR, the EU and the Weakness of Social Rights Protection at European Level
  • Michael O'Boyle, The Future of the European Court of Human Rights