Acceptance of International Supervision of Human Rights

Leiden Journal of International Law

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 821-831

  Schermers, Henry G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

European Court of Human Rights; human rights; sovereignty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952928402     PISSN: 09221565     EISSN: 14789698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0922156599000412     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. UN Charter, Art. 1, para. 3 and Art. 13, para. lb.
2. UN Charter Art. 55c, Art. 62, para. 2 and Art. 68.
3. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, preamble.
4. European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 218 UNTS 221 (1955).
5. Protocol 11, Document H (94) 5 of the Council of Europe; Trb. 1994, 141 and 165.
6. Cases nr. 214/56, 332/57 and 343/57, see Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights Vol. 2, at 200. Two of these cases finally came before the Court (De Becker and Lawless). In the third one (Bjarn Schouw Nielsen) tlie Commission found no violation of the Convention (see Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights Vol. 2, at 413; Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights Vol. 4, at 494-589), which was confirmed by the Committee of Ministers (Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights Vol. 4, at 590-592).
7. Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights Vol. 2, at 92, 93.
8. Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights Vol. 4, at 426.
9. Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights Vol. 36 (1993), at 11
10. Id, at 33.
11. Decision 104/55, Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights Vol. 1, at. 228 and Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights Vol. 2, at 510.
12. Decision 167/56, Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights Vol. 2, at 235.
13. Report of the Commission of 13 March 1980. ECHR (Ser. B) no. 40, at 41.
14. Judgment of 22 October 1981, ECHR (Ser. A), no 45 (Dudgeon); judgment of 26 October 1988, ECHR (Ser. A), at 142 (Norris); and judgment of 22 April 1993, ECHR (Ser. A), at 259 (Modinos).
15. On this case see H.G, Schermers, The Norwegian Dentist Case on Compulsory Labour, 11 Netherlands International Law Review 366-371 (1964).
16. Application nr. 1468/62, Decision of 17 December 1963, Collection of Decisions nr. 12, p. 80.
17. Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights Vol. 6, at 26.
18. Van der Mussele, Judgment of 23 November 1983, ECHR (Ser. A), at 70.
19. Karlheinz Schmidt, Judgment of the Court of 18 July 1994, ECHR (Ser. A), at 291 B.
20. Application 511/59, Decision of 20 December 1960, Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights Vol. 3, at 394, 422.
21. Winterwerp case, Judgment of 24 October 1979, ECHR (Ser, A) 33, at 19, para. 45.
22. As expressed in Handyside, ECHR (Ser. A), 24, para. 47.
23. McLeod v. UK., Judgment of 23 September 1998, Reports of Judgment and Decisions 1998.
24. See, e.g., Benthem Case A 97; Feldbrugge Case A 99; Tre Traktorer AB Case A 159.
25. Matthews, Judgment of 18 February 1999, Application no. 24833/94, see www.dhcour.coe.fr/ Hudoc2-doc2/HEJUD/199903/matthews%20 eng 2,doc.