Tuesday 26 November 2013

New Book on ECHR and the Employment Relation



Filip Dorssemont, Klaus Lörcher and Isabelle Schömann have published the edited volume 'The European Convention on Human Rights and the Employment Relation' with Hart Publishing. This is the abstract: 
       

The accession by the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has opened up new possibilities in terms of the constitutional recognition of fundamental rights in the EU. In the field of employment law it heralds a new procedure for workers and trade unions to challenge EU law against the background of the ECHR. In theoretical terms this means that EU law now goes beyond recognition of fundamental rights as mere general principles of EU law, making the ECHR the 'gold standard' for fundamental (social) rights.

This publication of the Transnational Trade Union Rights Working Group focuses on the EU and the interplay between the Strasbourg case law and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), analysing the relevance of the ECHR for the protection of workers' rights and for the effective enjoyment of civil and political rights in the employment relation. Each chapter is written by a prominent European human rights expert and analyses the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), and also looks at the equivalent international labour standards within the Council of Europe (in particular the (Revised) European Social Charter), the International Labour Organization (ILO) (in particular the fundamental rights conventions) and the UN Covenants (in particular the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) and the interpretation of these instruments by competent organs.


The authors also analyse the ways in which the CJEU has acknowledged the respective ECHR articles as 'general principles' of EU law and asks whether the Lisbon Treaty will also warrant a reassessment of the way it has treated conflicts between these 'general principles' and the so-called 'fundamental freedoms'.

Friday 22 November 2013

ECHR Readings and Updates

As the days turn darker and colder here in the Netherlands, here is a new selection of recent ECHR-related journal articles for you to read:

* C. Bratic, 'A comparative approach to understanding developments in privacy rights in the European Court of Human Rights', Columbia Journal of European Law (vol. 19, no. 2, 2012-2013) pp. 341-368.

* F. Staiano, 'Good mothers, bad mothers: transnational mothering in the European Court of Human Rights’ case law', European Journal of Migration and Law (vol. 15, no. 2, 2013) pp. 155-182.

* K. Yoshida, 'Towards intersectionality in the European Court of Human Rights: the case of B.S. v Spain',  Feminist Legal Studies (vol. 21, no. 2, 2013) pp. 195-204.

* L. Lavrysen, 'No ‘significant flaws’ in the regulatory framework: E.S. v. Sweden and the lowering of standards in the positive obligations case-law of the European Court of Human Rights', Human Rights & International Legal Discourse (no. 1, 2013).

* I. Ziemele, 'Customary international law in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights - the method', Law and practice of internationalcourts and tribunals (vol. 12, no. 2, 2013) pp. 243-252.

* J. Nozawa, 'Drawing the line: same-sex adoption and the jurisprudence of the ECtHR on the application of the "European consensus" standard under Article 14', Merkourios (vol. 29, no. 77, 2013) pp. 66-75.

* M. Eriksson, 'The prevention of human trafficking - regulating domestic criminal legislation through the European Convention on Human Rights', Nordic Journal of International Law (vol. 82, no. 3, 2013) pp. 339-368.

And some ECHR-related blog entries:

* Philip Leach and Alice Donald, ‘Hostility to the European Court and the risks of contagion’ on ukhumanrightsblog. ·       

*  * Saïla Ouald Chaib, ‘Mann Singh wins turban case in Geneva after losing in Strasbourg’ on Strasbourg Observers.        
 
* Laurens Lavrysen, ‘Failure to protect minor against stepfather filming her naked violates Article 8: Grand Chamber agrees with our third party intervention in Söderman v. Sweden’ on the same blog.
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Finally, a report of the conference "Human Rights Education in Russia and Other European States" which was held in Yekaterinburg last month, has been made available by its organiser and fellow ECHR expert, Anton Burkov.