Thursday, August 25, 2011

Buyse & Hamilton: Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR: Justice, Politics and Rights

Antoine Buyse (Universiteit Utrecht - Netherlands Institute of Human Rights) & Michael Hamilton (Central European Univ. - Legal Studies) have published Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR: Justice, Politics and Rights (Cambridge Univ. Press 2011). Contents include:
  • Michael Hamilton & Antoine Buyse, Introduction
  • Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Transitional emergency jurisprudence: derogation and transition
  • Kris Brown, Rights and victims, martyrs and memories: the European Court of Human Rights and political transition in Northern Ireland
  • Christopher Lamont, The ECHR and transition: confronting the consequences of authoritarianism and conflict
  • James Sweeney, Freedom of religion and democratic transition
  • Antoine Buyse, The truth, the past and the present: Article 10 of the ECHR and situations of transition
  • Michael Hamilton, Transition, political loyalties and the order of the state
  • Anne Smith & Rory O'Connell, Transition, equality and non-discrimination
  • Tom Allen & Benedict Douglas, Closing the door on restitution: the European Court of Human Rights
  • Diego Rodriquez-Pinzon, The inter-American human rights system and transitional processes
  • Gina Bekker, The 'transitional' jurisprudence of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
  • Antoine Buyse & Michael Hamilton, Conclusions