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Anglo-Saxonizing Rights: Transnational Public Interest Litigation In Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Anna Dolidze*
Affiliation:
Cornell Law School

Abstract

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New Voices II: Internationalizing and Domesticating Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2011

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References

1 Lautsi v. Italy, App. No. 30814/06, para. 8 (Mar. 18, 2011), available at http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/resources/hudoc/lautsi_and_others_vitaly.pdf.

2 Considering that there is a slight difference in the terms, “third party intervention” and “amicus curiae” submission will be used synonymously for the purposes of these remarks only.

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7 See, e.g., Law and Globalization from Below: Towards A Cosmopolitan Legality (Boaventura de Sousa Santos & Cesar A. Rodriguez-Garavito eds., 2006); Rajagopal, Balakrishnan, International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance 262 (2003)Google Scholar; Upendra Baxi, the Future of Human Rights (2008).

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16 Letter from Mr. Thornberry (May 20, 1977), Annex II, Letter from the Registrar of the Court to Mr. Cedric Thornberry, Strasbourg (Mar. 25, 1977), Tyrer v. United Kingdom, 24 Eur. Ct. H. R. (ser. B) at 45.

17 Winterwerp v. Netherlands, App. No. 6301/73, para. 7 (Oct. 24, 1979).

18 Young, James & Webster v. United Kingdom, 44 Eur. Ct. H. R. (ser. A) at 8 (1981).

19 Mahoney, supra note 12, at 141.

20 Lingens v. Austria, App. No. 9815/82 (July 8, 1986).

21 Request to submit written comments by the International Press Institute (Rule 37.2 of the Rules of the Court) (May 21, 1985), Lingens v. Austria, 86 Eur. Ct. H. R. (ser. B) at 42 (1984-1986).

22 Id.