Publication details
Policing Separation of Powers: A New Role for the European Court of Human Rights?
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | European Constitutional law Review |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S157401961200003X |
| Field | Law sciences |
| Keywords | European Court of Human Rights; Separation of powers; Stafford/Kleyn and A/Kart strands of case-law; Limitations and institutional deficiencies of the ECtHR in this area; Constitutionalisation of the ECtHR |
| Description | I showed that the ECtHR has within the last decade increasingly intervened in the signatory states’ separation of powers and that this goes to a large extent unnoticed. Through the two case studies (parliamentary immunity and the incompatibility of judicial office with other tasks) I also revealed that the ECtHR’s involvement in domestic separation of powers issues is far broader than generally thought. |