A people's history of the European Court of Human Rights / Michael D. Goldhaber.

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Goldhaber, Michael D. (Michael Dov)

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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation.Publication details: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813541280
081354128X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: People's history of the European Court of Human Rights.DDC classification:

341.4/8094 22

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KJC5138 .G64 2007eb

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Contents:

Why bastard? -- When Irish eyes are crying -- Gay in a time of troubles -- Dudgeon's children -- The greening of Europe? -- Dumb immigrants -- Minos and Jehovah -- Recovered memories -- Mohammed comes to Strasbourg -- The death penalty, mutilation, and the whip -- The original hooded men -- The tortures of Aksoy -- Two faces of Kurdish feminism -- The Chechen challenge -- The Roma challenge -- A constitutional identity for Europe -- Human rights in Europe and America.

Summary: The exceptionality of America's Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. But the United States Supreme Court is no longer the only one changing the landscape of public rights and values. Over the past thirty years, the European Court of Human Rights has developed an ambitious, American-style body of law. Unheralded by the mass press, this obscure tribunal in Strasbourg, France has become, in many ways, the Supreme Court of Europe. 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-205) and index.

The exceptionality of America's Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. But the United States Supreme Court is no longer the only one changing the landscape of public rights and values. Over the past thirty years, the European Court of Human Rights has developed an ambitious, American-style body of law. Unheralded by the mass press, this obscure tribunal in Strasbourg, France has become, in many ways, the Supreme Court of Europe. 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.