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The European Court of Human Rights: Lautsi v. Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Christian Walter*
Affiliation:
University of Münster

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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End notes

* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the European Court of Human Rights HUDOC Portal: (visited January 7, 2010) http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/Case-Law/HUDOC/HUDOC+database/

1 Lautsi v. Italy, App. No. 30814/06, Eur. Ct. H.R. ¶ 47 (2009), available at http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/homepage_en [hereinafter Lautsi].

2 Kokkinakis v. Greece, App. No. 14307/88, Eur. Ct. H.R. ¶ 31 (1993), available at http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/homepage_en.

3 Folgerø v. Norway, App. No. 15472/02, Eur. Ct. H.R. ¶¶ 90-100 (2007), available at http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/homepage_en.

4 See, e.g., Dickson v. United Kingdom, App. No. 44362/04, Eur. Ct. H.R. ¶ 78 (2007), available at http://www.echr.-coe.int/ECHR/homepage_en.

5 Lautsi, supra note 1, ¶¶ 38, 39.

6 Id. ¶ 47.

7 Id. ¶¶ 48-58.

8 Id. ¶ 35.

9 Id. ¶ 53.

10 Id. ¶ 56.

11 The request for referral has to be approved by a panel of five judges. European Convention on Human Rights art. 43, para. 2, Nov. 4, 1950, Europ. T.S. No. 5; 213 U.N.T.S. 221.

12 Darby v. Sweden, App. No. 11581/85 Eur. Comm’n H.R. ¶ 45 (1989), available at http://beta.religlaw.org/document.-php?DocumentID=1960.

13 Bundesverfassungsgericht [BVerfG] [German Federal Constitutional Court] May 12, 1987, 93 Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts [BVerfGE], 11 BvR 1087/91 (1987), available at http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/centers/transnational/work_new/german/case.php?id=615.

14 See Christian Walter, From the Acceptance of Interdenominational Christian Schools to the Inadmissibility of Christian Crosses in the Public Schools, in Religion in the Public Sphere: A Comparative Analysis of German, Israeli, American and International Law 165 (Winfried Brugger & Michael Karayanni eds., 2007).