Domestic Judicial Treatment of European Court of Human Rights Case Law – Near Is My Shirt, but Nearer Is My Skin

Vol.29,No.2(2021)

Abstract
This article offers a critical contextual reading of the book Domestic Judicial Treatment of the European Court of Human Rights Case Law: Beyond Compliance (KOSAR, D. et al., Routledge, 2020) on the background of current discussions about the legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights case law. The author draws on his personal experience with the functioning of the European Court of Human Rights, the Czech Supreme Administrative Court and the Czech Constitutional Court when confronting his observations with the book’s findings. He points out the weaker moments of the book, adds his situated observations, and suggests possible further research avenues, among which the focus on the lower courts’ use of the European Court of Human Rights case law stands out.

Keywords:
The European Court of Human Rights; the Czech Supreme Court; the Czech Supreme Administrative Court; the Czech Constitutional Court; Compliance.

Pages:
375–387
Author biography

Martin Kopa

Regional Court in Brno

Judge
References

BOBEK, Michal a David KOSAŘ. The Application of European Union Law and the Law of the European Convention of Human Rights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: An Overview. In: MARTINICO, Giuseppe a Oreste POLLICINO (eds.). The National Judicial Treatment of the ECHR and EU Laws. A Comparative Constitutional Perspective. Groningen: Europa Law Publishing, 2010, s. 117–150.

BOBEK, Michal. Evropská dimenze ochrany základních práv. In: WAGNEROVÁ, Eliška. Vojtěch ŠIMÍČEK, Tomáš LANGÁŠEK, Ivo POSPÍŠIL a kol. Listina základních práv a svobod. Komentář. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2012.

KMEC, Jiří, David KOSAŘ, Jan KRATOCHVÍL a Michal BOBEK. Evropská úmluva o lidských právech. Komentář. 1. vyd. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2012, 1687 s.

KOSAŘ, David et al. Domestic Judicial Treatment of European Court of Human Rights Case Law: Beyond Compliance. London: Routledge, 2020.

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