The Architecture of the Strasbourg System of Human Rights: The
Crucial Role of the Domestic Level and the Constitutional
Courts in Particular

J 2017

The Architecture of the Strasbourg System of Human Rights: The Crucial Role of the Domestic Level and the Constitutional Courts in Particular

KOSAŘ, David and Jan PETROV

Basic information

Original name

The Architecture of the Strasbourg System of Human Rights: The Crucial Role of the Domestic Level and the Constitutional Courts in Particular

Authors

KOSAŘ, David (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Jan PETROV (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg, C.H. Beck, 2017, 0044-2348

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50501 Law

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

Repozitář MU

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14220/17:00095138

Organization unit

Faculty of Law

Keywords in English

European Court of Human Rights; compliance; implementation; constitutional courts

Abstract

V originále

The aim of this paper is to specify the significance of the domestic actors in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter also “ECHR” or “Convention”) system’s architecture and to provide a framework of factors affecting the particular actors’ treatment of ECHR rights. It does so in four steps. First, it explains that the Strasbourg system depends on domestic actors in two ways: (1) domestic institutions act as the “diffusers” of the Strasbourg case law by establishing a general domestic rule respecting the demands of the ECtHR; and (2) they further shape this rule by its enforcement in day-to-day practice and by doing so they fulfil the “filtering” role vis-a-vis the ECtHR. But this is an ideal scenario. The second part of this paper shows that in real life implementation of the ECtHR’s case law is a multi-faceted process in which various actors with various interests engage with the Strasbourg jurisprudence. Third, this paper explains the role of the domestic judiciary in implementing the Strasbourg case law and places constitutional courts within the broader judicial context. Finally, it zeroes in on constitutional courts and their complicated relationship with the Strasbourg Court. More specifically, it argues that a constitutional court must be understood as one of the many domestic “meso-level” actors that interact with each other within the State (“macro-level”), but it also consists of several “micro-level” actors within the constitutional court itself. Only if we grasp all of these three levels can we see the full picture of how constitutional courts influence the dynamics of the implementation process.

Links

GA16-09415S, research and development project

Name: Beyond Compliance - Implementace rozhodnutí mezinárodních lidskoprávních těles na národní úrovni

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

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KOSAŘ, David and Jan PETROV. The Architecture of the Strasbourg System of Human Rights: The Crucial Role of the Domestic Level and the Constitutional Courts in Particular. Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht. Heidelberg: C.H. Beck, 2017, vol. 77, No 3, p. 585-621. ISSN 0044-2348.

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KOSAŘ, David and Jan PETROV. The Architecture of the Strasbourg System of Human Rights: The Crucial Role of the Domestic Level and the Constitutional Courts in Particular. \textit{Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht}. Heidelberg: C.H. Beck, 2017, vol.~77, No~3, p.~585-621. ISSN~0044-2348.

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