Join to Community

Do you want to contribute by writing guest posts on this blog?

Please contact us and send us a resume of previous articles that you have written.

Member-only story

The Untold Stories: People History Of The European Court Of Human Rights

David Foster Wallace

·14.1k Followers· Follow

Published in A People S History Of The European Court Of Human Rights: A People S History Of The European Court Of Human Rights First Edition

2 min read

172 View Claps

15 Respond

Save

Listen

Article here...

Chapter 1: The Birth of an Idea

Chapter content here...

Chapter 2: Early Influential Figures

Chapter content here...

A People s History of the European Court of Human Rights: A People s History of the European Court of Human Rights First Edition

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

by Mustafa Aksakal(Kindle Edition)

5 out of 5

Language	:	English
File size	:	2308 KB
Text-to-Speech	:	Enabled
Screen Reader	:	Supported
Print length	:	215 pages

Chapter 3: Prominent Cases and Turning Points

Chapter content here...

Chapter 4: Impactful Judges and Advocates

Chapter content here...

Chapter 5: Controversial Decisions and Criticisms

Chapter content here...

Chapter 6: Shaping Human Rights Today

Chapter content here...

Chapter 7: The Future of the European Court of Human Rights

Chapter content here...

content here...

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

by Mustafa Aksakal(Kindle Edition)

5 out of 5

Language	:	English
File size	:	2308 KB
Text-to-Speech	:	Enabled
Screen Reader	:	Supported
Print length	:	215 pages

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 mission is centered on interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. The Council routinely confronts nations over their most culturally-sensitive, hot-button issues. It has stared down France on the issue of Muslim immigration; Ireland on abortion; Greece on Greek Orthodoxy; Turkey on Kurdish separatism; Austria on Nazism; and Britain on gay rights and corporal punishment. And what is most extraordinary is that nations commonly comply.

In the battle for the world’s conscience, Goldhaber shows how the court in Strasbourg may be pulling ahead.

Read full of this story with a FREE account.

Already have an account? Sign in

172 View Claps

15 Respond

Save

Listen