The Impact of the ECHR on Democratic Change in Central and Eastern Europe

Iulia Motoc is a judge at the European Court of Human Rights and Professor of Law at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She has also served as a judge at the Constitutional Court of Romania and as the Vice-Chair of the UN Human Rights Committee. Ineta Ziemele is a judge of the Constitutional Court of Latvia and a professor at the Riga Graduate School of Law. She is a former judge and Section President at the European Court of Human Rights.

Foreword Dean Spielmann; 1. Introduction Iulia Motoc; 2. Comments on the early years and conclusions Luzius Wildhaber; 3. Albania: Albania's long path towards European human rights standards Ledi Bianku; 4. Armenia: the supremacy of the European Convention on Human Rights: Armenia's path Alvina Gyulumyan and Davit Melkonyan; 5. Azerbaijan: the directions of influence of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in Azerbaijan Khanlar Hajyev; 6. Bosnia and Herzegovina: impact of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights on post-conflict society of Bosnia and Herzegovina Faris Vehabovic; 7. Croatia: commitment to reform: assessing the impact of the ECtHR's Case Law on Reinforcing Democratization Efforts in Croatian Legal Order Ksenija Turkovic and Jasna Omejec; 8. Czech Republic: democratic tradition, legitimacy of confiscation, translation of the case law of the ECtHR in the light of the Convention in the Czech Republic Aleš Pejchal; 9. Estonia: impact of the European Court of Human Rights' (Case Law) on Democracy and Rule of Law: some reflections from the Estonian perspective Julia Laffranque; 10. Hungary: the Legal Order of Hungary and the European Convention on Human Rights Károly Bárd; 11. Latvia: consolidating democratic changes in Latvia: the various roles of the European Convention on Human Rights Mārtiņš Mits; 12. Lithuania: the European Convention on Human Rights in the Lithuanian legal system Danutė Jočienė; 13. Macedonia: the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law on the Republic of Macedonia Mirjana Lazarova-Trajkovska and Ilo Trajkovski; 14. Montenegro: the effect of the European Convention on Human Rights on the legal system of Montenegro Nebojša B. Vučinić; 15. Poland: human rights between international and constitutional law Lech Garlicki and Ireneusz Kondak; 16. Romania: Romania and the European Convention on Human Rights: a dialogue of judges Iulia Motoc and Crina Kaufmann; 17. Russia: European Convention on Human Rights in Russia: fifteen years after Anatoly I. Kovler; 18. Serbia: the emergence of the human rights protection in Serbia under the European Convention on Human Rights: the experience of the first ten years Dragoljub Popović and Tanasie Marinković; 19. Slovakia: how the Convention has helped Slovakia in its transition to a consolidated democracy Milan Blaško and Mihal Kučera; 20. Slovenia: just a glass bead game? Jan Zobec; 21. Ukraine: Ukraine on the way to democracy: role and achievements of the European Court of Human Rights Ganna Yudkivska; 22. Conclusions Ineta Ziemele.