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Magister Legum - LLM / South Africa

Thesis (M.L.S.)--Stanford University, 2001. / Submitted to the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies at the Stanford Law School, Stanford University. "May 2001." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-95). Abstract and table of contents available online.

This thesis is a socio-legal study of the politics of international law (i.e. the relationship between international law and international politics). There is not necessarily an accepted scope, or even direction, of this relationship but it is widely perceived to be important in international, as well as national, affairs. Still, this relationship needs to be better understood and articulated. This thesis offers a theoretical and empirical account of the phenomenon of the politics of international law, and its implications for the Chechen conflict by exploring how and to what extent one's understanding of the phenomenon is determined by culture, history, political and social context. Part One is an overview of the literature and theoretical approaches to studying the relationship between (international) law and (international) politics, as well as an analysis of sixteen face-to-face semi-structured interviews with practitioners of international law and international politics from different backgrounds and cultures. That leads to a theoretical model which is applied and verified in Part Two, a case study of the Chechen conflict. This focuses specifically on a socio-historical understanding of international law, the humanitarian and human rights movement in Russia, and the relationship between human rights law and international humanitarian law in the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights in the so-called Chechen cases. The findings of this study indicate that international politics is highly influenced by international law just as international law is affected by international politics. They both are integral parts of the international system, nevertheless, remain distinct from each other. It is therefore the politics of international law that allows international relations to take place, where politics provides the means by which the negotiations can take place and law creates specific language and provides a framework within which the debates can take place. It demonstrates that the challenges of modern times make that the two become increasingly influential on one another.

Univ., Diss.--Würzburg, 2004. / Literaturverz. S. 241 - 252.

The thesis examines one of the latest novelties in the work of the ECtHR - Pilot Judgement Procedure. The thesis covers all the aspects of the PJP such as an introduction of the procedure and its reasons, its main objectives, theoretical basis, practical application, and effectiveness.

L'intérêt de l'enfant est une notion bien connue du droit de la famille des Etats membres du Conseil de l'Europe. C'est sans doute le cas du droit grec de la famille qui érige l'intérêt de l'enfant en règle fondamentale. Or, ce principe cher au droit interne, visant la protection de l'enfant, franchit les frontières nationales et obtient un caractère européen grâce à la jurisprudence européenne concernant la vie familiale. En effet, en statuant sur les « contentieux familiaux européens », le juge de Strasbourg consacre ledit principe, met en avant sa valeur indubitable et forge son contenu de base. Sans imposer d'évaluations uniformes de l'intérêt de l'enfant, la Cour EDH pose les lignes directrices de sa détermination. Toutefois, malgré le dynamisme de la construction jurisprudentielle européenne portant sur l'intérêt de l'enfant dans le cadre de la garantie de la vie familiale, en Grèce l'appréciation dudit intérêt reste pour le moment une question interne. Il n'y a pas de contact entre l'ordre juridique grec et le système de la Convention, puisque le premier ne se réfère pas systématiquement au second et la jurisprudence européenne contre l'Etat grec est isolée / The interests of the child is a well known concept in family law of Council of Europe Member States. Greek family law is not an exception to this rule: the interests of the child is one of its fundamental principles. However, this valuable concept of internal law, aiming at children's protection, has crossed the national borders and gained a European personality thanks to the ECHR case – law concerning family life. While ruling on these cases, Strasbourg Court underlines the significance of the notion and has elaborated its main guidelines without imposing identical evaluations.Despite the activity of the ECHR on this field, interest of child approach is a strictly national issue in Greece. The lack of contact between the Greek law and the ECHR case – law is more than obvious. The former nearly ignores the latter, while the relevant cases against Greece in this area remain few.

This review is an attempt to analyze the published materials on precedent law of the European Court on Human Rights. The article analyzes the case law activity by the European Court on Human Rights, its influences on national legal systems. The precedent law of the European Court on Human Rights is one of the complicated issues, because there is not general theoretical view on it. The precedent law of the Court is developing and gains new features. The Court uses its previous consequences in previous decisions on a subsequent case as a precedent norm. The Court creates a case law system that influences legal reforms in national legal order.

The right to an effective remedy is a fundamental principle of international human rights law, crucial for the protection of individuals, especially for asylum seekers who have faced human rights violations in their countries of origin. Due to the importance of this right, it was included in art. 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), however, this article did not provide a clear definition of what is an effective remedy. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), as the judicial body responsible for the application of the ECHR, discussed the right to an effective remedy in many cases in which the applicants claimed that their right to an effective remedy has been violated. The Court did not provide a specific definition rather it provided requirements for a remedy to be effective which will be discussed in this thesis. As the ECHR is applied to "everyone" as provided in article 1 of the Convention, asylum seekers can claim the violations of their right to an effective remedy before the ECtHR. This can provide a significant guarantee in the protection system for asylum seekers in different ways.   Art. 13 of the ECHR stipulated the national authorities are the main responsible for providing the right to an effective remedy. In case the national authorities failed in providing such remedy, hence the role of the ECtHR comes to provide such remedy which is known as the principle of subsidiarity. Also, as asylum seekers are the more vulnerable groups for forcible refoulement, it became important to discuss if the right to an effective remedy can be protect them against such refoulement.   This thesis aims to investigate the right to an effective remedy as evolved by the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. It analysis the interpretation of this right by the ECtHR to explain its requirements, type, and scope of application, Also, it focuses on the principle of subsidiarity and how it can be applied in this regard. Finally, it discussed the implementation of the right to an effective remedy in conjunction with the principle of non-refoulement to explain the scope of protection that can be guaranteed for asylum seekers against forcible refoulement.