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Digest of Strasbourg Case-Law relating to the European Convention on Human Rights. 2 vols. Council of Europe. Cologne, Berlin, Bonn, Munich: Carl Heymanns Verlag KG, 1984. Vol. 1 (Articles 1-5): pp. xvii, 669. Index. DM 237. Vol. 2 (Article 6): pp. xviii, 922. Index. DM 320.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Hurst Hannum*
Affiliation:
Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1985

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References

1 Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

2 The exceptions are Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Turkey.

3 Many of these cases are summarized and discussed in Hannum, H. Materials on International Human Rights and U.S. Constitutional Law (1985)Google Scholar and Sieghart, P. the International Law of Human Rights (1983)Google Scholar.

4 The most comprehensive and helpful survey of the work of the Commission and Court is Council of Europe, Stock-Taking on the European Convention on Human Rights. The First Thirty Years: 1954 UNTIL 1984 (1984).

5 The Convention protects civil and political rights almost exclusively, although subsequent protocols have expanded its coverage somewhat. The most important European document concerned with economic, social and cultural rights is the European Social Charter, signed Oct. 18, 1961, 529 UNTS 89 (entered into force Feb. 26, 1965); see generally, Harris, D. The European Social Charter (1984)Google Scholar.