Subjects:

Human Rights and Civil Liberties

This seminal text offers a comprehensive account of the strasbourg case law and its underlying principles. It provides an accessible guide to decisions under the Convention and its protocols, article by article, as well as explaining the history and likely development of the law.

• Provides critical analysis of the substantive content of each of the European Convention on Human Rights' basic rights contained in Articles 2-15
• Focuses on how the European Convention on Human Rights should be interpreted and its relationship to national and European Union law, thus helping students understand the international context of the Convention.

New to this edition

• Fully revised and updated to take into account the enourmous amounts of new jurisprudence issued since the publication of the first edition in 1995
• The European Convention on Human Rights has changed radically since the publication of the first edition and the text has been updated to take these changes into account, including consideration of the admittance of new member states from the Eastern bloc and updated discussions of the right to a fair trial, the right to life, and freedom of speech.