The Council of Europe

Its Law and Policies

Edited by Stefanie Schmahl and Marten Breuer

Features chapters authored by practitioners working within the Council of Europe
Investigates the organization's main statutory bodies as well as the smaller institutions rarely studied in legal literature
Examines the legal basis of the Council of Europe, its developments through time, and the future prospects of the organization
Describes the impact of Council of Europe activities on the national legal system
Analyses the functional interference of the Council of Europe with other international organisations such as the UN, EU, OSCE, and OECD

The Council of Europe

Its Law and Policies

Edited by Stefanie Schmahl and Marten Breuer

Description

The Council of Europe, of which all European States are members, plays a pivotal role in the promotion and protection of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in Europe. Bringing together specialist scholars and practitioners, The Council of Europe: Its Laws and Policies offers profound insights into the functioning of the organization. The Council of Europe: Its Laws and Policies offers profound insights into the functioning of the organization. The organization's primary and secondary law, its institutional structure, and its far-reaching fields of activities are comprehensively and systematically analyzed. This volume investigates the impact of the Council's activities within the national legal systems of the Member States and the dense web of relationships between the Council of Europe and other international organizations. An important reference work on one of the most influential organizations in Europe, the book concludes that the Council of Europe has played a considerable role in the constitutionalization process of regional public international law.

The Council of Europe

Its Law and Policies

Edited by Stefanie Schmahl and Marten Breuer

Part I: General Aspects
1. Origin and Further Development, Norman Weiß
2. Interpretation and Amendments of the Founding Treaty, Christian Walter
3. Membership and Observer Status, Eckart Klein
4. Seat and Symbols of the Council of Europe, Eckart Klein
5. Budget and Finance, Stefanie Schmahl
Part II: Institutions
Part II-1: State Based Organs
6. The Committee of Ministers, Simon Palmer
7. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Philip Leach
8. Secretariat, Matthias Ruffert
Part II-2: Further Institutions of the Council of Europe as a Whole
9. European Court of Human Rights, Elisabeth Lambert-Abdelgawad
10. Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Bert Schaffarzik
11. Commissioner for Human Rights, Oliver Dörr
12. The Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations of the Council of Europe, Heike Krieger
13. The Administrative Tribunal, Dorothee von Arnim
Part II-3: Institutions Based on Partial or Enlarged Agreements
14. Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), Rainer Steckhan
15. European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM), Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack
16. Eurimages Fund, Tarlach McGonagle
17. Co-operation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Drugs (Pompidou Group), Werner Sipp
18. European Centre for Global Interdependence and Solidarity (North-South Centre), Markus Kaltenborn
19. European Audiovisual Observatory, Tarlach McGonagle
20. European Centre for Modern Languages, Tarlach McGonagle
21. Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), Wolfgang Rau
Part III: Tasks and Objectives
Part II-1: Protecting and Promoting Human Rights
22. European Convention on Human Rights, Oliver Dörr
23. European Social Charter, Oliver Dörr
24. Conventions on the Protection of National Minorities, Stefan Oeter
25. Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack
26. Anti-discrimination Policy, Thomas Giegrich and Sara Jötten
27. Core Monitoring Mechanisms and Related Activities, Andrew Drzemczewski
Part II-2: Securing and Enhancing the Rule of Law
28. Establishing Common Standards and Securing the Rule of Law, Marten Breuer
29. Combating Terrorism and Organised Crime, Christian Walter
30. Protecting Children, Ursula Kilkelly
31. Media and Information Society, Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack
32. Constitutional Standard-setting and Strengthening of New Democracies, Christoph Grabenwarter
Part III-3: Strengthening Democratic Governance
33. Securing and Enhancing the Common Cultural Heritage, Kerstin Odendahl
34. Cross-border Cooperation, Matthias Niedobitek
35. Programmes of Cooperation and Solidarity, Norman Weiss
Part IV: Impact and Outreach
36. Impact of the Council of Europe on National Legal Systems, Marten Breuer
37. The Council of Europe within the System of International Organizations, Stefanie Schmahl
38. The Council of Europe and International Institutional Law: An Appraisal, Marten Breuer

The Council of Europe

Its Law and Policies

Edited by Stefanie Schmahl and Marten Breuer

Author Information

Stefanie Schmahl, Professor of German and Foreign Public Law, Public International Law, and European Law, University of Wurzburg,Marten Breuer, Professor of Public Law with Reference to European Law and Public International Law, University of Konstanz

Stefanie Schmahl is Professor of German and Foreign Public Law, Public International Law, and European Law at Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg, Germany.

Marten Breuer is Professor of Public Law with Reference to European Law and Public International Law at Universitat Konstanz, Germany.

Contributors:

Andreas Haratsch
Andrew Drzemczewski
Bert Schaffarzik
Christian Walter
Christoph Grabenwarter
Dorothee von Arnim
Eckart Klein
Elisabeth Lambert-Abdelgawad
Heike Krieger
Katharina Pabel
Kerstin Odendahl
Markus Kaltenborn
Matthias Niedobitek
Matthias Ruffert
Norman Weiß
Oliver Dörr
Philip Leach
Rainer Steckhan
Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack
Sara Jötten
Simon Palmer
Stefan Oeter
Tarlach McGonagle
Thomas Giegerich
Ursula Kilkelly
Werner Sipp
Wolfgang Rau

The Council of Europe

Its Law and Policies

Edited by Stefanie Schmahl and Marten Breuer

Reviews and Awards

"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." -- Thomas Hoppe, German Yearbook of International Law