- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation, Treaties, and Conventions
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- 2 The Beginning of Modern International Human Rights Law (Background to the Birth of the European Convention)
- 3 Proposals for a Convention to Safeguard Europe from Tyranny and Oppression?
- 4 The Drafting of the Convention by the Governments of the Council of Europe (February–November 1950)
- 5 The Convention of 1950 and Key Features of its Subsequent Evolution
- 6 An Overview of the Convention’s Evolution from the 1950s to the Early 1970s
- 7 The Convention’s Evolution 1973–1976: The Awakening of the ‘Sleeping Beauty’
- 8 The Strasbourg Court ‘Comes of Age’ (The Judgments of the Late 1970s)
- 9 Reflecting on the Convention’s Evolution (From a Safeguard against Totalitarianism to Europe’s Bill of Rights)
- 10 The Evolution of the Convention System through to 1990
- 11 The Convention’s ‘Coming of Age’ (The 1990s and Protocol 11)
- 12 After 1998: The Challenges Facing the ‘New’ European Court of Human Rights
- APPENDIX 1 ECHR: Dates of signature/ratification and first acceptances<sup>1</sup> of the right of individual petition and the jurisdiction of the Court (1 June 2010)
- APPENDIX 2 Acceptance of substantive Protocols by Convention States<sup>5</sup>
- APPENDIX 3 1955–1975: Development in the number of applications registered, declared admissible, judgments, and Commission Reports<sup>6</sup>
- APPENDIX 4 1976–1998: Development in the number of provisional files, applications registered, declared admissible, judgments, and Commission Reports<sup>9</sup>
- APPENDIX 5 First judgment delivered by the European Court of Human Rights in respect of each Member State (chronological order)
- APPENDIX 6 Inter-State cases 1954–1998<sup>12</sup>
- APPENDIX 7 Key dates/events in the history of the ECHR 1948–1998<sup>20</sup> <sup>21</sup> <sup>22</sup>
- Bibliography
- Index
The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- Chapter:
- (p.1) 1 The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- Source:
- The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights
- Author(s):
Ed Bates
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter provides an overview of the story of the evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights. It comments on the current crisis facing the Court. It then discusses the origins of the Convention and explains, in summary form, how it developed over subsequent decades. The situation of the Convention and the European Court of Human Rights over the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s is examined.
Keywords: human rights, European Convention on Human Rights, European human rights law, international human rights law, United Kingdom, European Court of Human Rights
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation, Treaties, and Conventions
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- 2 The Beginning of Modern International Human Rights Law (Background to the Birth of the European Convention)
- 3 Proposals for a Convention to Safeguard Europe from Tyranny and Oppression?
- 4 The Drafting of the Convention by the Governments of the Council of Europe (February–November 1950)
- 5 The Convention of 1950 and Key Features of its Subsequent Evolution
- 6 An Overview of the Convention’s Evolution from the 1950s to the Early 1970s
- 7 The Convention’s Evolution 1973–1976: The Awakening of the ‘Sleeping Beauty’
- 8 The Strasbourg Court ‘Comes of Age’ (The Judgments of the Late 1970s)
- 9 Reflecting on the Convention’s Evolution (From a Safeguard against Totalitarianism to Europe’s Bill of Rights)
- 10 The Evolution of the Convention System through to 1990
- 11 The Convention’s ‘Coming of Age’ (The 1990s and Protocol 11)
- 12 After 1998: The Challenges Facing the ‘New’ European Court of Human Rights
- APPENDIX 1 ECHR: Dates of signature/ratification and first acceptances<sup>1</sup> of the right of individual petition and the jurisdiction of the Court (1 June 2010)
- APPENDIX 2 Acceptance of substantive Protocols by Convention States<sup>5</sup>
- APPENDIX 3 1955–1975: Development in the number of applications registered, declared admissible, judgments, and Commission Reports<sup>6</sup>
- APPENDIX 4 1976–1998: Development in the number of provisional files, applications registered, declared admissible, judgments, and Commission Reports<sup>9</sup>
- APPENDIX 5 First judgment delivered by the European Court of Human Rights in respect of each Member State (chronological order)
- APPENDIX 6 Inter-State cases 1954–1998<sup>12</sup>
- APPENDIX 7 Key dates/events in the history of the ECHR 1948–1998<sup>20</sup> <sup>21</sup> <sup>22</sup>
- Bibliography
- Index
