Contemporary Issues of Human Rights Protection in International and National Settings

The contributors of the volume analyze the effect of the ECHR and international human rights on the national and European legal order from different angles. Special emphasis is given to the Union's accession to the ECHR and the scrutiny of ECJ's opinion 2/13. The impact of the human rights provisions of the accession agreement with Ukraine is shown beside some more general issues of human rights protection in national jurisdictions-namely Germany, Poland, Slovenia, and Turkey-for providing a comparative overview of the various challenges countries with different backgrounds face in the implementation of human rights, including social human rights. All authors are academics working in the field of human rights protection. The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a better understanding of the challenges of international human rights protection. The book is useful for academics and students in the field of international and European law, and international politics. [Subject: Human Rights Law, European Law, Public International Law, Comparative Law]

Stefan Lorenzmeier is Academic Counsellor at the University of Augsburg Law School. Vasilka Sancin is Associate Professor at the School of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is Vice Dean for Quality Assurance, Head of the Department of International Law, Director of the Institute for International Law and International Relations and President of the Commission for Quality Assurance.