Exporting the European Convention on Human Rights

DEFTOU Maria-Louiza

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Summary

This book explores how the European Convention on Human Rights operates and influences on the global stage.

The ECHR and its interpretation by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) considerably echo in and outside Europe. To what degree has that influence translated into its norms, doctrines and methods of interpretation being exported into equivalent systems which also enact the protection of fundamental rights? This book answers that question by exploring the judicial dialogue of the ECHR system with comparable legal orders.

Through a horizontal and multifaceted study of regional and global systems, the book identifies the impact of the ECHR within the confines of their jurisprudence to provide scholars in the field of international human rights law with an essential text. Discussing the extent to which the ECHR penetrates into the judicial production of the most affected legal systems, the book mostly focuses on the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee. It also investigates whether there is room for cross-fertilisation between them and finally, moves on to explore the legal consequences of the interplay of these mechanisms with the ECtHR and what it means for the overall functioning of international human rights law.

Table of contents

Introduction
PART I
EXPORTING THE ECHR TO THE EU LEGAL ORDER
1. The Direct Application of the ECHR by the Luxembourg Court
I. Article 8 ECHR in CJEU Case Law: Overlapping and Divergent Jurisprudence
A. The Right to Private Life and EU Data Protection
B. The Right to Private and Family Life in Migration and Asylum Cases
II. Articles 6 and 13 ECHR within the EU System: Interpretation of the Procedural Principles
A. The Core Elements of Fair Trial and Effective Remedy: The Protection of Legal Persons
B. Fair Trial Minimum Guarantees: Presence at the Trial
III. The Ne bis in Idem Principle in the CJEU Jurisprudence: New Challenges in the Post-Lisbon Era
IV. Conclusion
2. The Application of the ECHR as a Restriction Mechanism of EU Law
I. The ECHR as a Ground for Derogation from the Internal Market Freedoms of the EU
A. The Equilibrium between Fundamental Rights and EU Fundamental Freedoms
B. The Particularity of Social Rights: Inconsistent Approaches
II. The ECHR Standards of Protection: The Impact to EU Data Protection Law and Jurisprudence
III. The ECHR as an Impediment to Fundamental Rights Violations Exercised by EU Institutions: The Example of UN Sanctions
A. The Bosphorus Case Formulating the Interrelationship of the Two Judicial Systems
B. The Decisive Step: The Kadi Saga 5
IV. The Restriction of the EU Asylum Rules in the Light of the ECtHR's Case Law: ?he Dublin Cases
A. ECtHR – CJEU Bras de Fer: Paving the Way for the Dublin Reform
B. Last Breath for Dublin?

PART II
EXPORTING THE ECHR TO THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ORDER
3. Regional to Regional: The Impact of the ECtHR Case Law on Human Rights Protection in the Americas
I. Introduction
II. Importing the ECtHR's Human Rights Norms: Analogous Application or Differentiated Appraisal?
A. The Horizontal Perspective
B. The Vertical Perspective
C. Conclusion
III. The Expansion of Human Rights Protection by the IACtHR: Any Room for Cross-Fertilisation?
A. The Proliferation of Jus Cogens Norms in the IACtHR Case Law
B. The 'Endless Story' of Reparations in the IACtHR Case Law
IV. Conclusion
4. Regional to Global: Exporting the ECtHR's Norms to the Human Rights Committee
I. Introduction
II. The Horizontal Dimension of the Interaction between the HRC and the ECtHR
A. HRC: The 'Same Thing being Already Examined' by the ECtHR
B. The MoA of the States before the HRC: Acceptance or Opposition?
III. The Vertical Dimension of the Interaction between HRC and ECtHR: Moving in Parallel, Deciding in Contrast
A. The Divergence in Freedom of Religion Cases
B. The Dissonance Regarding Women's Reproductive Rights
C. Migration Issues before the HRC: Too Close or Too Far from Strasbourg?
IV. Conclusion
5. Concluding Remarks