The European Convention on Human Rights and its impact on the legal systems of the participating states
Author
Altıntaş, İlkem
Advisor
Spehr, Scott L.
Date
2001Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
This study analyzes the implications of the European Convention of Human Rights on
the domestic governance of the participating states. The European Convention is not a
traditional type of international treaty. It has an implementation mechanism, which
forces the participating states to abide by the rulings of the Convention. This situation is
a prominent example of the transformations that have taken place in the field of human
rights since the Second World War. This thesis focuses on the responses of the
contracting states to the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, an organ of
the Council of Europe, in order to establish the impact of supranational organizations on
member states domestic policy-making in the context of an evolving global order.