Table of Contents

Table of Cases
Tables of Legislation, Treaties, and Conventions
Abbreviations
1: The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
I. THE CONVENTION'S BIRTH
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
II. FROM A SAFEGUARD AGAINST TOTALITARIANISM TO A FLEDGLING EUROPEAN BILL OF RIGHTS
6: An Overview of the Conventions Evolution from the 1950s to the Early 1970s
7: The Conventions Evolution 1973 - 1976: The Awakening of the 'Sleeping Beauty'
8: The Strasbourg Court 'Comes of Age'(The Judgements of the Late 1970s)
9: Reflecting on the Conventions Evolution (From a Safeguard against Totalitarianism to Europes Bill of Rights)
III. COMPLETING THE EUROPEAN BILL OF RIGHTS
10: The Evolution of the Convention System through to 1990
11: The Conventions 'Coming of Age'(The 1990s and Protocol 11)
IV.'AFTER 1998'
12: After 1998: The Challenges Facing the 'New' European Court of Human Rights
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

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Shortlisted for The Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2011

About the Author

Ed Bates is a lecturer in law at the University of Southampton. He is a co-author of the second edition of Harris, O'Boyle and Warbrick's Law of the European Convention on Human Rights (forthcoming, 2009) and has written a number of articles in the field of human rights law, including recent publications in International Comparative Law Quarterly and the British Year Book of International Law.

Reviews

Bates has written a lucid, readable book on the development of the European Court of Human Rights, from the kernel of the Convention, written in 1948 as an safeguard against totalitarianism, to its development as a European Bill of Rights, with the court as a constitutional court for Europe delivering landmark jurisprudence at significant points in its development.
*David J Dickson, The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland*

Bates picks up the mantle of these earlier important works and his magisterial study is a worthy successor to them.
*Urfan Khaliq (Cardiff University), Journal of Law and Society*

This monograph will assist generations of legal practitioners and academics in their quest for arguments supporting particular interpretations of the Convention given that open-ended norms of the Convention provide opportunities for legal creativity and judicial activism.
*Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Human Rights Law Review 13:1*