Transitional Jurisprudence and the ECHR

Antoine Buyse is an associate professor and senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University. Michael Hamilton is an associate professor in the Legal Studies Department of the Central European University, Budapest, and senior lecturer at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster.

'This volume constitutes a very interesting, relevant and necessary insight into the transitional jurisprudence of the ECtHR, complemented with non-European comparisons. The book can be recommended to a broad spectrum of law specialists interested in human rights law, transitional justice, international criminal law as well as constitutional and comparative law.' Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Human Rights Law Review

• 1. Introduction Michael Hamilton and Antoine Buyse; 2. Transitional emergency jurisprudence: derogation and transition Fionnuala Ní Aoláin; 3. Rights and victims, martyrs and memories: the European Court of Human Rights and political transition in Northern Ireland Kris Brown; 4. The ECHR and transition: confronting the consequences of authoritarianism and conflict Christopher Lamont; 5. Freedom of religion and democratic transition James Sweeney; 6. The truth, the past and the present: Article 10 of the ECHR and situations of transition Antoine Buyse; 7. Transition, political loyalties and the order of the state Michael Hamilton; 8. Transition, equality and non-discrimination Anne Smith and Rory O'Connell; 9. Closing the door on restitution: the European Court of Human Rights Tom Allen and Benedict Douglas; 10. The inter-American human rights system and transitional processes Diego Rodriquez-Pinzon; 11. The 'transitional' jurisprudence of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Gina Bekker; 12. Conclusions Antoine Buyse and Michael Hamilton.