The conscience of Europe : 50 years of the European Court of Human Rights

This book does not purport to be a full and complete history of the institution.

Nor is it a treatise on the Court's procedure and case-law, on which many publications already exist.

It steers a course between an academic commentary and a purely introductory guide.

It groups a variety of individual contributions, on topics generally selected by the authors themselves, round a skeleton retracing the main relevant events over the last half-century.