Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Part I. The Expanding Ambit of Personal Life
1. Why Bastard?
2. When Irish Eyes Are Crying
3. Gay in a Time of Troubles
4. Dudgeon's Children
5. The Greening of Europe?
6. Dumb Immigrants

Part II. The Rights of Expression
7. Minos and Jehovah
8. Recovered Memories
9. Mohammed Comes to Strasbourg

Part III. State Violence
10. The Death Penalty, Mutilation, and the Whip
11. The Original Hooded Men
12. The Tortures of Aksoy
13. Two Faces of Kurdish Feminism

Part IV. Challenges for the Future
14. The Chechen Challenge
15. The Roma Challenge

Part V. Concluding Thoughts
16. A Constitutional Identity for Europe
17. Human Rights in Europe and America 

Sources
Index

About the Author

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

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.
*director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics*

A one-of-a kind account of Strasbourg law.
*William F. Starr Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law*

We in the United States, who have watched the deterioration of constitutional rights in the absence of strong judicial oversight, can learn from the remarkable example of the European Court of Human Rights in this wonderful book.
*Howard Zinn*

A wonderfully written and researched book that celebrates Europe's achievements in defending human rights through the stories of the victims who took their complaints to the European Court of Human Rights.
*Human Rights Centre, University of Essex*

Apart from the legal issues, the stories of lives shattered by torturers are compelling and poignant . . . [G]eneral readers will be rewarded by its lively content and readability. Highly recommended.
*Choice*

If you haven't come across this book, all the stories behind the cases are here. It is often funny and always moving, written in a light style that celebrates all those that made the Strasbourg caselaw.
*European Human Rights Law Review*