The conservative human rights revolution. European identity, transnational politics and the origins of the European Convention

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Notes

1 On this criticism, see: S Flogaitis, T Zwart and J Fraser (eds), The European Court of Human Rights and its Discontents Turning Criticism into Strength, Cheltenham, Edgar Edward Elgar 2013; P Popelier, S Lambrecht and K Lemmens (eds), Criticism of the European Court of Human Rights (Intersentia 2016).

2 In this respect the case Stec and Others has attracted much attention. ECtHR (GC), Stec and Others v. UK, 12 April 2006.

3 S Salomon, ‘Marco Duranti, The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics and the Origins of the European Convention’ (Book review) (2017) Human Rights Law Review 808; The former President of the Belgian Constitutional Court Marc Bossuyt‘s criticism may be illustrative: https://strasbourgobservers.com/2010/05/17/president-of-belgian-constitutional-court-criticizes-european-court-of-human-rights/ (accessed 4 December 2018).

4 B. Favaurque-Cosson, ‘Development of Comparative Law in France’ in M Reimann and R Zimmerman (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (Oxford University Press, 2006) 36. She recalls us that the era was also known as the ‘Belle Epoque of comparative law.’

5 S. Salomon, ‘Marco Duranti, The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics and the Origins of the European Convention’ (Book review) (2017) Human Rights Law Review 809.

6 Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the US (6).