The Council of Europe

Stefanie Schmahl is Professor of German and Foreign Public Law, Public International Law, and European Law at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany.Marten Breuer is Professor of Public Law with Reference to European Law and Public International Law at Universität Konstanz, Germany.

Schmahl and Breuer's edited volume gives a broad overview and serves as an insight into the most prominent regional international organisation. Because of its thematic breadth, it may serve on the one hand as a practitioner's handbook ... On the other hand, it serves as a means of (first) information about certain areas of the Council of Europe for anyone interested in the work, objectives, institutions and suborgans, and conventions of the Council of Europe.

• PART I: GENERAL ASPECTS; PART II: INSTITUTIONS; PART II-1: STATE BASED ORGANS; PART II-2: FURTHER INSTITUTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AS A WHOLE; PART II-3: INSTITUTIONS BASED ON PARTIAL AGREEMENTS; PART III: TASKS AND OBJECTIVES; PART IV: IMPACT AND OUTREACH