Contents

pp v-vi

The contributors

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

Introduction: Untangling the domestic implementation of the European Court of Human Rights' judgments

pp 1-24

Part I - INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS OF DOMESTIC IMPLEMENTATION

pp 25-26

1 - The interrelationship between domestic judicial mechanisms and the Strasbourg Court rulings in Germany

pp 27-48

2 - Between political inertia and timid judicial activism: the attempts to overcome the Italian ‘implementation failure’

pp 49-70

3 - The reluctant embrace: the impact of the European Court of Human Rights in post-communist Romania

pp 71-94

Part II - LEGAL MOBILISATION AND THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF IMPLEMENTATION

pp 95-96

4 - European human rights case law and the rights of homosexuals, foreigners and immigrants in Austria

pp 97-121

5 - Political opposition and judicial resistance to Strasbourg case law regarding minorities in Bulgaria

pp 122-142

6 - Under what conditions do national authorities implement the European Court of Human Rights' rulings? Religious and ethnic minorities in Greece

pp 143-165

7 - A complicated affair: Turkey's Kurds and the European Court of Human Rights

pp 166-187

8 - The European Court of Human Rights and minorities in the United Kingdom: catalyst for change or hollow rhetoric?

pp 188-210

9 - Politics, courts and society in the national implementation and practice of European Court of Human Rights case law

pp 211-231

List of European Court of Human Rights judgments and European Commission on Human Rights cases

pp 232-237

Index

pp 238-240