Volume 5 : 1
Translation Challenges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Cost-Effective Proposals for Improvement
American Convention on Human Rights Articles 46(1)(a) and 46(2)(c): Achilles Heel or Trojan Horse?
Measures of Reparation for Victims of Gross Human Rights Violations: Developments and Challenges in the Jurisprudence of Two Regional Human Rights Courts
The Institutionalization of People with Mental Disabilities: Comparative Analysis between Its Treatment under the Inter-American and European System of Human Rights
Interpreting the European Convention: What can the African Human Rights System Learn from the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights on the Interpretation of the European Convention?
Gobernar desde abajo: Del control de convencionalidad a la instrumentalización de la inversión estructural de la pirámide kelseniana
Advocacy for a U.S. Commission of Inquiry on Torture in the Context of the “War on Terror” Inspired by the Latin American Experience: Chile and El Salvador
El sistema africano: Pilar más incipiente de la trilogía de mecanismos regionales de salvaguardia de los derechos humanos
Implementation of Judgments: Should Supervision be Unlinked from the General Assembly of the Organization of American States?
Translation Challenges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Cost-Effective Proposals for Improvement
American Convention on Human Rights Articles 46(1)(a) and 46(2)(c): Achilles Heel or Trojan Horse?
Measures of Reparation for Victims of Gross Human Rights Violations: Developments and Challenges in the Jurisprudence of Two Regional Human Rights Courts
The Institutionalization of People with Mental Disabilities: Comparative Analysis between Its Treatment under the Inter-American and European System of Human Rights
Interpreting the European Convention: What can the African Human Rights System Learn from the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights on the Interpretation of the European Convention?
Gobernar desde abajo: Del control de convencionalidad a la instrumentalización de la inversión estructural de la pirámide kelseniana
Advocacy for a U.S. Commission of Inquiry on Torture in the Context of the “War on Terror” Inspired by the Latin American Experience: Chile and El Salvador
El sistema africano: Pilar más incipiente de la trilogía de mecanismos regionales de salvaguardia de los derechos humanos
Implementation of Judgments: Should Supervision be Unlinked from the General Assembly of the Organization of American States?
Year
2012
Volume
5
Number
1
Page
90
Language
English
Court
Reference
L. BURGORGUE-LARSEN, “Interpreting the European Convention: What can the African Human Rights System Learn from the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights on the Interpretation of the European Convention?”, IAEHR 2012, nr. 1, 90-123
Recapitulation
The methods of interpretation under the European Convention on Human Rights range from multifaceted judicial activism to judicial restraint aimed notably at avoiding needless antagonisation of the States. On the one hand, the Court’s judicial activism developed through the use of several different types of interpretations. Alongside the ‘cosmopolitical’ method of interpretation, a very bold approach that ensured that the European Convention on Human Rights was always on the cutting edge and never ossified or became outdated, there were also several more targeted interpretive techniques that served the same end, i.e. to broaden the Convention’s purview. On the other hand, the Court disposes of an array of tools allowing it to exercise strategic self-restraint to avoid arousing the ire of States intent on making sovereign decisions about their own societal choices. These include the national margin of appreciation, whose handling has not gone without criticism.
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