New Book on Implementation of the European Convention of Human Rights in Russian Courts

The sixth volume in the series International Human Rights Protection entitled Implementation of the European Convention of Human Rights in Russian Courts has been published.

The book focuses on the domestic application of the European Convention of Human Rights (the Convention) in the courts of different levels and jurisdictions within the Russian Federation. The authors examine the national status of international law in the Russian legal system, particularly the status of the Convention. They identify the legal mechanisms of the Convention's implementation in decisions of Russian courts. Legal scholars and staff attorneys of Russian NGOs share their knowledge and experience, as well as give advice on using the Convention in domestic civil, administrative and criminal litigation. The book contains extracts of relevant international documents and Russian legislation necessary for the successful implementation of the Convention in Russian courts, including some recommendations of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers that have never previously been translated into the Russian language. The book also includes a number of domestic courts' decisions as an example of the successful application of the Convention.

The editor of the book is Anton Burkov, LLB (Ural State Law Academy), kandidat uridicheskikh nauk (Tumen' State University), LLM (Chevening Scholar, University of Essex), PhD candidate in Law at the University of Cambridge (TNK-BP Kapitza Cambridge Scholar). Co-authors are: Anton Burkov; Ludmila Churkina, staff-attorney with the Ural Center for Constitutional and International Human Rights Protection; Anna Demeneva, LLM (Ural State Law Academy), staff-attorney with the Ural Center for Constitutional and International Human Rights Protection, intern at the office of Ombudsmen of Sverdlovsk oblast; Vladislav Bykov, staff-attorney with Vedomosti newspaper (former staff attorney with Glastnost' Defense Foundation). The foreword is by Ella Pamfilova, chair of the Russian Presidential Council for Assistance in the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.

This book is in Russian. Anton Burkov, ed., Primenenie Evropeiskoi Konvencii o Zaschite Prav Cheloveka v Sudakh Rossii (Ekaterinburg: Izdatel'stvo Ural'skogo Universiteta, 2006), 264 p. ISBN 5-7525-1570-X

The book can be downloaded free of charge in PDF format at www.sutyajnik.ru/rus/library/sborniki/echr6/echr6.pdf A free copy of the book can also be ordered online at www.sutyajnik.ru/rus/library/sborniki/echr6/zakaz.htm

A summary of findings and conclusions of this book is available in an English language article published in Russian Law: Theory and Practice 1 (2006), 68-76. It's available for download from www.sutyajnik.ru/rus/library/articles/2006/russian_law_2006.pdf (3 Mb)

Forthcoming book in English on the topic - Anton Burkov, Impact of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms on Russian Law (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, forthcoming, 2007, ISBN 3-89821-639-X, ISSN 1614-3515)

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