Now available as an ebook for the first time, the fourth edition of this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the most advanced international human rights system in the world the European Convention on Human Rights. Full account is taken of developments to the Convention case law and the supervisory arrangements in the form of Protocol No. 11, together with relevant developments outside Strasbourg, including the human rights aspects of the EU and the Organisation for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE). Reviews the new European Court of Human Rights, set up in 1998, and contrasts it with the original arrangements for supervising the Convention. Examines the relations between the Convention and other human rights arrangements, such as the OSCE and the European Social Charter. A valuable title in the Melland Schill Studies in International Law series.

The late J. G. Merrills was Professor Emeritus of Public International Law at the University of Sheffield. The late A. H. Robertson was Director of Human Rights, Council of Europe.

1. The origins and history of the Convention2. The rights guaranteed I3. The rights guaranteed II4. The rights guaranteed III5. The rights guaranteed IV6. The rights guaranteed V7. The scope of rights and freedoms8. The rights guaranteed by Protocols9. The institutional machinery before Protocol No. 1110. The institutional machinery todayAppendix:The European Convention of Human Rights and its Protocosl as amended by Protocol 11Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental FreedomsProtocol Nos. 1, 4, 6 and 7