| authors | Buyse, A.C. |
| source | Nomiko Vima, Volume: 57, Issue: 8 (2009), pp. 1913-1927 |
| full text | [Full text]
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| document type | Article |
| version | Final Author version |
| disciplines | Rechtsgeleerdheid |
| abstract | The fiftieth anniversary of the European Court of Human Rights this year is an occasion
for both celebration and apprehension. The Court started functioning in 1959 at the heart
of the Council of Europe, an organisation set up after World War II to protect democracy
against dictatorship and thereby to avoid the recurrence of the massive human rights
violations of the war. From a timid beginning the Court has grown into a full-time
institution successfully dealing with thousands of cases each year. Its case law is
generally perceived to be among the most developed and extensive of all international
human rights institutions and most of its judgments are routinely implemented by the
state parties to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). |
| keywords | European Court of Human Rights, pilot judgments, pilot methodology |
