The Convention and the Kingdom: How the Netherlands Received the European Convention on Human Rights

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The Convention and the Kingdom: How the Netherlands Received the European Convention on Human Rights

By Wiebe Hommes
Cambridge University Press September 2025

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ISBN-13
9781009676816
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
September 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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How and why did the European Convention turn from a neglected legal tool into one of the most important human rights documents in legal practice? This book argues this remarkable development wasn't merely the result of a top-down movement initiated by the European Court, but of a far more dynamic process in which the national and European spheres engaged in constant co-creation. Focusing on the Netherlands and uncovering little known archival sources, it lays bare how the Convention was received over time throughout the entire Kingdom. In doing so, it incorporates insight into how European human rights were perceived in Europe and beyond. A much more varied story comes to light in which contingency and interaction take centre stage, and which uncovers the choices that continue to shape the character of the Convention as we know it today

Table of Contents

Introduction
1.
1945–1954 Constructing the moral basis for European integration
2.
1954–1962 The open beginning of the Convention
3.
1962–1968 From European rights to human rights
4: 1968–1979 European human rights in the age of activism
5.
1979–1989 The defining decade: How the Convention became 'mainstream'
6.
1989–2022 From permissive consensus to persistent critique
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