OUVRAGE : W.A. Schabas, The European Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary

Catherine MAIA

The European Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary is the first complete article-by-article commentary on the ECHR and its Protocols in English. This book provides an entry point for every part of the Convention: the substance of the rights, the workings of the Court, and the enforcement of its judgments. A separate chapter is devoted to each distinct provision or article of the Convention as well as to Protocols 1, 4, 6, 7, 12, 13, and 16, which have not been incorporated in the Convention itself and remain applicable to present law.

Each chapter contains: a short introduction placing the provision within the context of international human rights law more generally; a review of the drafting history or preparatory work of the provision; a discussion of the interpretation of the text and the legal issues, with references to the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Commission on Human Rights; and a selective bibliography on the provision.

Through a thorough review of the ECHR this commentary is both exhaustive and concise. It is an accessible resource that is ideal for lawyers, students, journalists, and others with an interest in the world's most successful human rights regime.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Introduction

Part II: The European Convention on Human Rights
 
Part III: Protocol No. 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights
 
Part IV: Protocol No. 4 to the European Convention on Human Rights securing certain rights  and freedoms other than those already included in the Convention and in the First Protocol thereto

Part V: Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights concerning the abolition of the death penalty
 
Part VI: Protocol No. 7 to the European Convention on Human Rights
 
Part VII: Protocol No. 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights
 
Part VIII: Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances
 
Part IX: Protocol No 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights

William A. SCHABAS, The European Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary,

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015 (1440 pp.)