Transitional emergency jurisprudence

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511758515.003

2 - Transitional emergency jurisprudence

derogation and transition

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

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Antoine Buyse and

Michael Hamilton

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Antoine Buyse: Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Michael Hamilton: Affiliation:
Central European University, Budapest

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Summary

International law recognises and accommodates the fact that in times of political, economic or social crisis the state may be required to limit the extent of protection resulting from consentingly entered into treaty obligations protecting individual rights. The derogation provisions of the international human rights instruments including Article 15 of the European Convention contain the politically and legally mandated processes whereby states can suspend their international obligations protecting individual rights in time of emergency or crisis. Given that the Council of Europe (and the Convention as its primary legal instrument) was born out of a massive transition from war to peace on the European continent, transition can be viewed a motif for the early history of the Convention. In this sense, the Convention itself constitutes a response to the devastating human rights violations of the Second World War, and can be understood as a transitional legal instrument. With that background in mind, this chapter explores the extent to which an extensive jurisprudence of emergency powers in the European system contains recognition of or interfaces with the thematic and structural aspects of transitional justice discourse.

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Information: Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR
Justice, Politics and Rights
, pp. 24 - 51

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511758515.003 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2011

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