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Interpretation of Fundamental Rights in a Multilevel Legal System

An analysis of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union

Book | 1st edition 2011 | World | Hanneke Senden
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Fundamental rights provisions are known for their relatively vague and general formulation. As a result, judges dealing with these provisions are confronted with many and often controversial interpretative choices. These interpretative choices already present judges operating in a national context with difficulties, but that is even more so for European judges operating in a multilevel context.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) are often criticized for delivering judgments that contain debatable choices and do not offer sufficient insight into the reasons which have led the courts to make these choices. Especially in a multilevel context where the cooperation of national authorities plays an important role as regards the effectiveness of the European courts, it is important that interpretation methods and principles are used in a transparent manner so that the reasons that justify a specific interpretative choice are clear.
This volume analyses the use of a selected number of interpretation methods and principles in the fundamental rights case law of the ECtHR and the CJEU. The use of teleological, comparative, evolutive and autonomous interpretation by the ECtHR and the CJEU are elaborately discussed on the basis of both legal theoretical literature and case law. The legal theoretical analysis provides the basis for various relevant questions, hypotheses and (analytical) suggestions, that are further studied in the subsequent case law analysis. This leads to a thorough overview of the role of these interpretation methods and principles and the possibilities for improvement.

This volume has been written as a PhD Thesis by Hanneke Senden (Institute for Public Law, University of Leiden; presently lawyer at Van Doorne, the Netherlands) in the framework of the research project ‘Judicial reasoning in fundamental rights cases – national and European perspectives’, supervised by professor J.H. Gerards and funded by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO).


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‘The present work contributes a very interesting analysis of the jurisprudence of the ECHR and the ECJ and can be recommended to [readers] not only interested in the content of judgments but also in the technical side of the decision-making process.’
Stefan Kieber in Newsletter Menschenrechte (NLMR) 1/2012, 69, 70


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Type of product Book
Format Paperback
EAN / ISSN 9781780680279
Series name Human Rights Research Series
Weight 780 g
Status Available
Number of pages xii + 454 p.
Access to exercice No
Publisher Intersentia
Language English
Publication Date Oct 7, 2011
Available on Jurisquare No
Available on Strada Belgique No
Available on Strada Europe No
Available on Strada Luxembourg No
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