The European architecture for the protection of fundamental rights combines the legal
regimes of the states, the European Union, and the European Convention on Human Rights …

This Chapter offers an overview of the multilevel system of fundamental rights protection in
Europe. The different dimensions involved are considered with a view to single out the many …

The ever increasing relevance of European law which involves replacement or
supplementation of and interaction with national law not only affects the states in Europe but …

The evolution of the European human rights regime is often described as the development
of an integrated order with the European Convention of Human Rights as its governing …

The first part of the book reviews the multi-level system of protection currently operating in
Europe and its constitutional implications. The Charter is analysed from a legal, political and …

Europe (CT) submitted to the President of the European Council in Rome on 18 July 2003. 2
The questions originally put by the Declaration of Laeken on the Future of the European …

At fifty, the European Court of Human Rights finds itself in a new institutional setting. With the
EU joining the European Convention on Human Rights in the near future, and the Court …

This study examines the protection of fundamental rights, democracy and rule of law in the
European Union, and the challenges that arise in reflecting on ways to strengthen EU …

Human rights are much talked about and much written about, in academic legal literature as
well as in political and other social sciences and the general political debate. This book …

The European Convention on Human Rights is rapidly evolving into a cosmopolitan legal
order: a transnational legal system in which all public officials bear the obligation to fulfill the …