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European Court of Human Rights

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The European Court of Human Rights is a Supra-national Court established in 1959 with the European Convention on Human Rights. It stands as a monitoring mechanism to ensure the observance of the commitments to ensure fundamental human rights undertaken signing the Convention.

This entry focuses on the functioning mechanism of the Court either from a prescriptive and an empirical point of view. The first aspect concerns organization and procedural issues, with special regard to the sanctioning mechanism, whereas the second aspect involves issues of effectiveness of the Court.

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  1. IEL- Institutions, Economics and Law, Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Torino, Turin, Italy

    Federica Gerbaldo

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  1. MRE and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  2. Faculté d’Economie, Université de Montpellier and LAMETA-UMR CNRS, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  3. DiGSPES, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

  4. IEL, Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

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Gerbaldo, F. (2019). European Court of Human Rights. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_584

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