Exporting the European Convention on Human Rights

Maria-Louiza Deftou teaches international law and international human rights law at the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

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