Table of Contents

PART I: THE CONVENTION AND THE COURT
1: The European Convention on Human Rights
2: Strasbourg's Legal Machinery
3: The European Court of Human Rights
PART II: SUBSTANTIVE ADJUDICATION IN THE COURT
4: The right to life
5: Torture; inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; and slavery
6: Freedom of expression; association
7: Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion
8: Respect for private and family life; marriage
9: The right to freedom from discrimination
10: Property
11: The right to education
12: The right to liberty and security of person
13: The right to a fair and public hearing
PART III THE IMPACT OF THE STRASBOURG SYSTEM
14: The effect in national law of the European Convention on Human Rights
15: Problems and prospects

About the Author

Mark W. Janis, William F. Starr Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
Richard S. Kay, Wallace Stevens Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
Anthony W. Bradley, Barrister of the Inner Temple, Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Edinburgh; Research Fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford