Legal Research Quarterly

Legal Research Quarterly

Impacts of European Court of Human Rights’ Judgments on the Member States’ National Legal systems

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
S. Ghasem Zamani 1
A. Ali Hosseiniazad 2
Majid Zahmatkesh 3
1 Professor of Law . , Allameh Tabatabai University
2 Ph.DCandidateof International law, Allameh Tabatabai University
3 Ph.D in International Law, Islamic Azad University,Najafabad.iran.
10.48308/jlr.2021.183991.1387
Abstract
European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) which has been created under The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) is a supervising organ for rights enshrined in the convention that belongs to the member states’ nationals. The court for more than a half century has received various claims often from individuals. This claims eventually faced states with a series of decisions that their compliance was compulsory. Thus, it is evident that court due to its position and authority always has been abled to affect member states domestic legal systems. The court has had various structural, organizational, legislative, executive and judicial effects on the internal human rights regimes of member states of the Council of Europe. However, there are some critiques regarding court’s qualitative impact on promotion of human rights in domestic level, the court has normatively been tremendously effective on the efficiency of convention rules in domestic level and has made the convention more dynamic.
Keywords
European Court of Human Rights
European Convention of Human Rights
Council of Europe
Regional Human Rights Bodies
Subjects

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  • Receive Date 04 June 2019
  • Revise Date 21 October 2021
  • Accept Date 26 October 2021