Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Expanding Ambit of Personal Life
1. Why Bastard?
2. When Irish Eyes Are Crying
3. Gay in a Time of Troubles
4. Dudgeon's Children
5. The Greening of Europe?
6. Dumb Immigrants
Part II. The Rights of Expression
7. Minos and Jehovah
8. Recovered Memories
9. Mohammed Comes to Strasbourg
Part III. State Violence
10. The Death Penalty, Mutilation, and the Whip
11. The Original Hooded Men
12. The Tortures of Aksoy
13. Two Faces of Kurdish Feminism
Part IV. Challenges for the Future
14. The Chechen Challenge
15. The Roma Challenge
Part V. Concluding Thoughts
16. A Constitutional Identity for Europe
17. Human Rights in Europe and America
Sources
Index
Michael D. Goldhaber is a contributing editor at The American Lawyer magazine, where he previously served as Chief European Correspondent and Senior International Correspondent. Mr. Goldhaber is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School (1997), Yale Law School (1993), and Harvard College (summa cum laude, 1990). He writes widely on legal affairs, with a focus on human rights and international arbitration.
A gripping account of the stories behind the cases that have made
European human rights jurisprudence the force for moral good that
it is today.
*director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London
School of Economics*
A one-of-a kind account of Strasbourg law.
*William F. Starr Professor of Law, University of Connecticut
School of Law*
We in the United States, who have watched the deterioration of
constitutional rights in the absence of strong judicial oversight,
can learn from the remarkable example of the European Court of
Human Rights in this wonderful book.
*Howard Zinn*
A wonderfully written and researched book that celebrates Europe's
achievements in defending human rights through the stories of the
victims who took their complaints to the European Court of Human
Rights.
*Human Rights Centre, University of Essex*
Apart from the legal issues, the stories of lives shattered by
torturers are compelling and poignant . . . [G]eneral readers will
be rewarded by its lively content and readability. Highly
recommended.
*Choice*
If you haven't come across this book, all the stories behind the
cases are here. It is often funny and always moving, written in a
light style that celebrates all those that made the Strasbourg
caselaw.
*European Human Rights Law Review*
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