The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era : Universality in Transition


James. A. Sweeney
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2013.
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1 online resource (289 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era Universality in Transition; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Table of legislation; Introduction; Part I Concepts; 1 The Council of Europe, transitional justice and the universality of human rights; 1.1 The Council of Europe; 1.1.1 The Council of Europe, human rights and democracy; 1.1.2 The Genesis of the European Convention on Human Rights; 1.1.3 Enlargement of the Council of Europe; 1.1.4 Implications of enlargement; 1.2 Transitional justice; 1.2.1 The Council of Europe and dismantling communism. - 1.2.2 Transitional justice1.2.3 Transitional justice in the Council of Europe; 1.2.4 Transitional justice and human rights: the odd couple; 1.3 The universality of human rights and transitional relativism; 1.3.1 The universality debate; 1.3.2 The universality debate at the ECHR: the margin of appreciation; 1.3.3 Transitional justice and universality; 1.4 Conclusion; Part II Cases; Section A The ECHR and transitional policies; A.1 Introduction; 2 Transitional criminal justice: prosecution and amnesty; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Successor trials and retroactivity. - 2.2.1 Setting the tone: the Berlin Wall cases2.3 Dealing with the communist past; 2.3.1 The developing orthodoxy; 2.3.2 Korbely v Hungary; 2.4 Dealing with the pre-Communist past: the Kononov case and 'historical truth'; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 Openness, secrecy and historical justice; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The right to truth; 3.3 PACE Resolution 1096 and historical justice; 3.4 The Convention as a foundation for access to secret information; 3.4.1 Access to secret information during lustration proceedings; 3.4.2 Openness and historical research. - 3.5 Historical justice, memorialisation and matters of 'purely historical fact'3.6 Conclusion; 4 Reparatory justice and the restitution of property; 4.1 Introduction; 4.1.1 International human rights law as a basis for reparatory justice; 4.1.2 PACE and reparatory justice; 4.2 The European Convention as a foundation for restitution claims; 4.2.1 Temporal scope of the Convention; 4.2.2 Material scope of the Convention; 4.3 The European Convention and the supervision of restitution schemes; 4.3.1 The 'legitimacy' of restitution schemes; 4.3.2 The scope of restitution policies. - 4.3.3 Proportionality and a 'fair balance': reparatory justice for victims of communism4.3.4 Proportionality and a 'fair balance': effecting constitutional and economic reforms; 4.4 Procedural justice and restitution; 4.4.1 Positive obligations; 4.4.2 The applicability of Article 6 ECHR to restitution proceedings; 4.4.3 The effect of Article 6 ECHR on restitution proceedings; 4.4.4 Reparatory justice and 'pilot judgments'; 4.5 Conclusion; 5 Lustration; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 The European Court's early approach to lustration: pre-PACE Resolution 1096; 5.1.2 PACE Resolution 1096 and lustration. - 5.2 The European Convention and the 'legitimacy' of lustration processes. - The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Universality in Transition examines transitional justice from the perspective of its impact on the universality of human rights, taking the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights as its detailed case study. The problem is twofold: there are questions about differences in human rights standards between transitional and non-transitional situations, and about differences between transitions.The European Court has been a vital part of European democratic consolidation and integration for over half a centur
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