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Michael Goldhaber - A People´s History of the European Court of Human Rights - 9780813539836 - V9780813539836
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A People´s History of the European Court of Human Rights

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The exceptionality of America’s Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. But the United States Supreme Court is no longer the only one changing the landscape of public rights and values. Over the past thirty years, the European Court of Human Rights has developed an ambitious, American-style body of law. Unheralded by the mass press, this obscure tribunal in Strasbourg, France has become, in many ways, the Supreme Court of Europe.

Michael Goldhaber introduces American audiences to the judicial arm of the Council of Europe—a group distinct from the European Union, and much larger—whose mission is centered on interpreting the European ... Read more

In the battle for the world’s conscience, Goldhaber shows how the court in Strasbourg may be pulling ahead.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813539836
SKU
V9780813539836
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About Michael Goldhaber
Michael D. Goldhaber is a contributing editor at The American Lawyer magazine, where he previously served as Chief European Correspondent and Senior International Correspondent. Mr. Goldhaber is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School (1997), Yale Law School (1993), and Harvard College (summa cum laude, 1990). He writes widely on legal affairs, with a focus on human rights and international arbitration. 

Reviews for A People´s History of the European Court of Human Rights
A gripping account of the stories behind the cases that have made European human rights jurisprudence the force for moral good that it is today.
Conor Gearty
director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics
A one-of-a kind account of Strasbourg law.
Mark Janis
William F. Starr Professor of ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for A People´s History of the European Court of Human Rights


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