Human Rights Law in Europe: The Influence, Overlaps and Contradictions of the EU and the ECHR

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This book provides analysis and critique of the dual protection of human rights in Europe by assessing the developing legal relationship between the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The book offers a comprehensive consideration of the institutional framework, adjudicatory approaches, and the protection of material rights within the law of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It particularly explores the involvement and participation of stakeholders in the functioning of the EU and the ECtHR, and asks how well the new legal model of 'the EU under the ECtHR' compares to current EU law, the ECHR and general international law. Including contributions from leading scholars in the field, each chapter sets out specific case-studies that illustrate the tensions and synergies emergent from the EU-ECHR relationship. In so doing, the book highlights the overlap and dialectic between Europe's two primary international courts. The book will be of great interest to students and researchers of European Law and Human Rights. Cover ......Page 1 Half Title ......Page 2 Title Page ......Page 4 Copyright Page ......Page 5 Table of Contents ......Page 6 List of contributors......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 List of abbreviations......Page 11 Foreword......Page 13 Part I Institutional relations between the EU, the ECHR and stakeholders......Page 24 1 Introduction......Page 26 2 When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers: ‘hegemonic struggle’ in Europe and the side-effects for international law......Page 32 3 A reminiscence of Westphalia: inter-party cases after the EU’s accession to the ECHR and the EU’s potential as a human rights litigator......Page 58 4 Why the road from Luxembourg to Strasbourg leads through Venice: the Venice Commission as a link between the EU and the ECHR......Page 78 5 Three levels of dialogue in precedent formation at the CJEU and ECtHR......Page 96 Part II Protection of procedural and substantive rights in the EU and the ECHR......Page 116 6 Introduction......Page 118 7 The presumption of equivalent protection rebutted: the right to a fair trial in criminal proceedings in the ECHR and EU law......Page 125 8 The right to strike: a jurisprudential gulf between the CJEU and ECtHR......Page 144 9 Labour law, the industrial constitution and the EU’s accession to the ECHR: the constitutional nature of the market and the limits of rights-based approaches to labour law......Page 160 10 The relationship between the CJEU and the ECtHR: the case of asylum......Page 179 11 A tale of two cities: positive action as ‘full equality’ in Luxembourg and Strasbourg......Page 211 12 Concluding remarks......Page 238 Index......Page 248