Exporting the European Convention on Human Rights

Introduction PART I EXPORTING THE ECHR TO THE EU LEGAL ORDER 1. The Direct Application of the ECHR by the Luxembourg Court I. Article 8 ECHR in CJEU Case Law: Overlapping and Divergent Jurisprudence A. The Right to Private Life and EU Data Protection B. The Right to Private and Family Life in Migration and Asylum Cases II. Articles 6 and 13 ECHR within the EU System: Interpretation of the Procedural Principles A. The Core Elements of Fair Trial and Effective Remedy: The Protection of Legal Persons B. Fair Trial Minimum Guarantees: Presence at the Trial III. The Ne bis in Idem Principle in the CJEU Jurisprudence: New Challenges in the Post-Lisbon Era IV. Conclusion 2. The Application of the ECHR as a Restriction Mechanism of EU Law I. The ECHR as a Ground for Derogation from the Internal Market Freedoms of the EU A. The Equilibrium between Fundamental Rights and EU Fundamental Freedoms B. The Particularity of Social Rights: Inconsistent Approaches II. The ECHR Standards of Protection: The Impact to EU Data Protection Law and Jurisprudence III. The ECHR as an Impediment to Fundamental Rights Violations Exercised by EU Institutions: The Example of UN Sanctions A. The Bosphorus Case Formulating the Interrelationship of the Two Judicial Systems B. The Decisive Step: The Kadi Saga 5 IV. The Restriction of the EU Asylum Rules in the Light of the ECtHR’s Case Law: ?he Dublin Cases A. ECtHR – CJEU Bras de Fer: Paving the Way for the Dublin Reform B. Last Breath for Dublin? PART II EXPORTING THE ECHR TO THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ORDER 3. Regional to Regional: The Impact of the ECtHR Case Law on Human Rights Protection in the Americas I. Introduction II. Importing the ECtHR’s Human Rights Norms: Analogous Application or Differentiated Appraisal? A. The Horizontal Perspective B. The Vertical Perspective C. Conclusion III. The Expansion of Human Rights Protection by the IACtHR: Any Room for Cross-Fertilisation? A. The Proliferation of Jus Cogens Norms in the IACtHR Case Law B. The ‘Endless Story’ of Reparations in the IACtHR Case Law IV. Conclusion 4. Regional to Global: Exporting the ECtHR’s Norms to the Human Rights Committee I. Introduction II. The Horizontal Dimension of the Interaction between the HRC and the ECtHR A. HRC: The ‘Same Thing being Already Examined’ by the ECtHR B. The MoA of the States before the HRC: Acceptance or Opposition? III. The Vertical Dimension of the Interaction between HRC and ECtHR: Moving in Parallel, Deciding in Contrast A. The Divergence in Freedom of Religion Cases B. The Dissonance Regarding Women’s Reproductive Rights C. Migration Issues before the HRC: Too Close or Too Far from Strasbourg? IV. Conclusion 5. Concluding Remarks