Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. The contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction: Untangling the domestic implementation of the European Court of Human Rights’ judgments 1
6. Part I. Institutional Dynamics Of Domestic Implementation
7. 1. The interrelationship between domestic judicial mechanisms and the Strasbourg Court rulings in Germany 27
8. 2. Between political inertia and timid judicial activism: the attempts to overcome the Italian ‘implementation failure’ 49
9. 3. The reluctant embrace: the impact of the European Court of Human Rights in post-communist Romania 71
10. Part II. Legal Mobilisation and the Political Context of Implementation
11. 4. European human rights case law and the rights of homosexuals, foreigners and immigrants in Austria 97
12. 5. Political opposition and judicial resistance to Strasbourg case law regarding minorities in Bulgaria 122
13. 6. Under what conditions do national authorities implement the European Court of Human Rights’ rulings? Religious and ethnic minorities in Greece 143
14. 7. A complicated affair: Turkey’s Kurds and the European Court of Human Rights 166
15. 8. The European Court of Human Rights and minorities in the United Kingdom: catalyst for change or hollow rhetoric? 188
16. 9. Politics, courts and society in the national implementation and practice of European Court of Human Rights case law 211
17. List of European Court of Human Rights judgments and European Commission on Human Rights cases 232
18. Index 238