The Status of International Treaties on Human Rights

• Author(s): European Commission for Democracy through Law, Universidade de Coimbra. Faculty of Law, International Association of Constitutional Law,
• Publisher: Council of Europe
• Pages: 225
• ISBN_10: 9287160139
  ISBN_13: 9789287160133
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Law / Jurisprudence , Reference / Almanacs , Political Science / International Relations / Treaties ,

Description:... This publication contains a number of papers presented at an international seminar, held in Coimbra, Portugal in October 2005, organised by the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in co-operation with the lus Gentium Coimbrigae Centre and the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL). Issues considered include: human rights and state succession; territorial scope of human rights obligations; the position of human rights treaties in national legal systems; the obligation to comply with the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights; the criteria for establishing the hierarchy of legal rules in national and international law.