OUVRAGE : I. Motoc, I. Ziemele (eds.), The Impact of the ECHR on Democratic Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Judicial Perspectives

Iulia MOTOC, Ineta ZIEMELE

High hopes were placed in the ability of the European Convention and the Court of Human Rights to help realise fundamental freedoms and civil and political rights in the post-communist countries. This book explores the effects of the Strasbourg human rights system on the domestic law, politics and reality of the new member States. With contributions by past and present judges of the European Court of Human Rights and assorted constitutional courts, this book provides an insider view of the relationship between Central and Eastern European states and the ECHR, and examines the fundamental role played by the ECHR in the process of democratisation, particularly the areas of the right to liberty, the right to propriety, freedom of expression, and minorities' rights.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of contributors
Table of cases
Dean Spielmann, Foreword

Iulia Motoc, Introduction 

Luzius Wildhaber, Comments on the early years and conclusions 

Ledi Bianku, Albania: Albania's long path towards European human rights standards 

Alvina Gyulumyan, Davit Melkonyan, Armenia: the supremacy of the European Convention on Human Rights: Armenia's path 

Khanlar Hajyev, Azerbaijan: the directions of influence of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in Azerbaijan 

Faris Vehabovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina: impact of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights on post-conflict society of Bosnia and Herzegovina 

Ksenija Turkovic, Jasna Omejec, Croatia: commitment to reform: assessing the impact of the ECtHR's Case Law on Reinforcing Democratization Efforts in Croatian Legal Order 

Aleš Pejchal, Czech Republic: democratic tradition, legitimacy of confiscation, translation of the case law of the ECtHR in the light of the Convention in the Czech Republic 

Julia Laffranque, Estonia: impact of the European Court of Human Rights' (Case Law) on Democracy and Rule of Law: some reflections from the Estonian perspective 

Károly Bárd, Hungary: the Legal Order of Hungary and the European Convention on Human Rights 

Mārtiņš Mits, Latvia: consolidating democratic changes in Latvia: the various roles of the European Convention on Human Rights 

Danutė Jočienė, Lithuania: the European Convention on Human Rights in the Lithuanian legal system 

Mirjana Lazarova-Trajkovska, Ilo Trajkovski, Macedonia: the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law on the Republic of Macedonia 

Nebojša B. Vučinić, Montenegro: the effect of the European Convention on Human Rights on the legal system of Montenegro 

Lech Garlicki, Ireneusz Kondak, Poland: human rights between international and constitutional law 

Iulia Motoc, Crina Kaufmann, Romania: Romania and the European Convention on Human Rights: a dialogue of judges 

Anatoly I. Kovler, Russia: European Convention on Human Rights in Russia: fifteen years after 

Dragoljub Popović, Tanasie Marinković, Serbia: the emergence of the human rights protection in Serbia under the European Convention on Human Rights: the experience of the first ten years 

Milan Blaško, Mihal Kučera, Slovakia: how the Convention has helped Slovakia in its transition to a consolidated democracy 

Jan Zobec, Slovenia: just a glass bead game? 

Ganna Yudkivska, Ukraine: Ukraine on the way to democracy: role and achievements of the European Court of Human Rights 

Ineta Ziemele, Conclusions

Index

Iulia MOTOC, Ineta ZIEMELE (eds.), The Impact of the ECHR on Democratic Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Judicial Perspectives, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016 (558 pp.)

Edirors:

Iulia Motoc, European Court of Human Rights; Universitatea din Bucureşti, Romania

Ineta Ziemele, Constitutional Court of Latvia; Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia